Warikoo challenges us to stop treating elite colleges as the arbiters of human worth. She asks us to look at the frantic parents, the exhausted students, and the litigious Supreme Court battles, and see them for what they are: symptoms of a system that prizes status over the common good.
is a distinguished sociologist and the Lenore Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Tufts University. Her extensive body of research offers a profound exploration of how race, immigration, and inequality intersect within the educational systems of the United States and Britain. Formerly a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Warikoo’s work is characterized by its deep sociological inquiry into how "winners" of elite systems perceive fairness and merit. Key Research and Publications natasha warikoo