Katharine O. Strunk

Katharine O. Strunk is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education and the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is nationally renowned for her partner-driven research and leadership, which has brought multimethod, collaborative scholarship to bear on pressing questions facing education and educators. Dr. Strunk is an award-winning expert on K–12 education governance, including teachers’ unions, collective bargaining agreements, and portfolio management models, as well as teacher labor markets, school turnaround, and accountability policies. Rooted in the fields of economics and public policy, her work centers on structures that are central to state and district operations and policy and the ways these structures affect policymakers’ decisions and outcomes. In her research, she pays particular attention to the ways that policies and programs impact the most traditionally underserved communities.