Research for Action

Holly Plastaras Maluk

Research Associate hmaluk@researchforaction.org	Holly Plastaras Maluk is an educational anthropologist with experience working in non-profit, academic, and government settings. Holly’s dissertation research focused on race relations and cross-race friendships among students at two racially diverse public high schools in Nashville, TN. Her dissertation reflected her interest in racial diversity and equity as an asset to schools and society. Holly has taught courses on ethnographic methods in education (Arcadia University), on the Anthropology of Friendship (Emory University), and résumé writing and career skills to high school students in Philadelphia. Holly is a former legislative staffer for U.S. Congressman John Lewis (D-GA).
Selected Research for Action projects: School Choice in a City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia’s Approach to High School Reform Need in Deed Outcome Evaluation Learning from Philadelphia's School Reform "Going Small": Public/Private Collaboration in Restructuring High School Education in Philadelphia All Projects
Selected Publications: All Publications
Educational Background: Ph.D.: Emory University (Atlanta, GA), Department of Anthropology M.A.: Emory University, Anthropology B.A.: Emory University, Women’s Studies and Anthropology