October 17, 2023
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Professor Charlie Eaton has been awarded the 2023 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book in the Sociology of Education by the American Sociological Association. His book, Bankers in the Ivory Tower, exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.