Anthony Lising Antonio

Anthony Lising Antonio is an Associate Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research. He serves as the founding faculty director of LifeWorks, an undergraduate integrative learning program. His work focuses on postsecondary access, racial diversity in education, student development, and social stratification.

• PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1998)
• MA, University of California, Los Angeles (1994)
• MS, Stanford University (1992)
• BS, University of California, Berkeley (1988)

Dr. Antonio's research spans stratification in higher education, racial and ethnic minority student development, and the impact of diversity on institutions. Recent work explores college admissions essays, synthetic text analysis, engineering equity, and social network applications in educational research. His 2024-25 courses include Diversity and Equity Issues in Higher Education and Holistic College Student Development.

His publications address critical themes like racialization in STEM, gender dynamics in undergraduate applications, intersectionality in student status, and college access program partnerships. Articles frequently employ social network analysis, critical race theory, and interdisciplinary methodologies to examine educational equity and institutional change.

• Principal investigator for educational RCTs
• Co-author on large language model demography studies
• Contributor to affirmative action policy debates

Dr. Antonio advises doctoral students in education and sociology, with affiliations to the Center for Comparative Study in Race and Ethnicity and the Asian American Studies program. He resides in EAST House, a Stanford residential fellowship focused on equity and societal issues.