Stephanie Beyer

Stephanie Beyer is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the transformation of higher education systems, focusing on the impacts of budget cuts and increasing competition on academic career paths in the U.S. and Germany, as well as how departmental prestige influences perceptions of autonomy in academia.

• Doctoral Candidate, Sociology Department, University of Bamberg
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

Her research interests include:

• Higher Education Systems
• Academic Career Trajectories
• Comparative Education
• Sociology of Science
• Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
• Pierre Bourdieu's Field Theory
• Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Contact: stephanie.beyer@berkeley.edu | Office: 759 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley