Doctoral Student

Anderson de Andrade is a PhD student in Sociology at Rutgers University. His research interests include education, inequality, technology, and organizations. These interests have been informed by his six years as a public school teacher in California and New York.

His current research examines the ways in which teachers respond to generative AI and the changing meaning of being a teacher in this new context. He is also working on a project with funds from the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative, which looks at the similarities and differences of AI policy among public schools in New Jersey, with an interest in how AI usage maps onto student demographics, particularly family income levels, urbanicity, and race.

Previously, he received funds from the Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies to conduct ethnographic research at a migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas.

Anderson earned a BA from Georgetown University in 2017 and an MA from Loyola Marymount University in 2019. He is also the author of Good Schools: Stories to Inform Public Education Reform (New Degree Press, 2020).