I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at UW Madison and a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences. 

I am a scholar of stratification, education, and gender, focusing on the growing, but understudied, role that graduate degrees play in gender and class inequality. Graduate education stretches well into young adulthood, intersecting with labor market experiences and family formation processes. I study the interrelation of these processes and how they shape gender and class inequalities in occupational advancement, earnings, and family formation. My work has been supported by the AERA-NSF Dissertation Fellowship and the Institute for Education Sciences. My sole-authored work is published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 

My dissertation focuses on how the expansion of graduate education and the rise of women's educational attainment have shaped the relationship between higher education credentials and occupations, and how graduate education expansion may influence the gender wage gap. 

 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