I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at UW Madison and a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences. Broadly, I'm interested in stratification, education, and gender. 

My dissertation focuses on how the expansion of graduate education and the rise of women's educational attainment have shaped higher education and inequality.

My work on the relationship between parent education and graduate enrollment has been published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. I am currently working on several projects outside of my dissertation, including in a Research Practice Partnership with UW Madison Housing to investigate the effects of random roommates on students' social interactions, a collaboration looking at the expansion of troubling master's programs in the wake of graduate PLUS loan policy, and a collaboration decomposing the compensatory effect of college on early mortality for first and continuing generation students. 

Prior to graduate school, I worked as a teacher in the UK. I have an M.S. in Sociology from UW Madison, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from Birmingham City University, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

You can find my CV here and you can reach me at brighouseglu [at] wisc.edu