Hugh "Bud" Mehan,
Professor and Director of CREATE
Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara, 1971

Areas of Specialization: Discourse Processes, Sociology of Education, Educational Inequalities

Email Address:   bmehan@ucsd.edu
Phone number:    858-822-2271 or 858-534-6765
Office location:  473 Social Science Building or
                          CRB 154 (CREATE)
                          
Office Hours

Biography:

Hugh Mehan is Professor of Sociology and Director of The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Access, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at UCSD, appointments that link his commitments to research and practice. CREATE coordinates efforts at UCSD to improve the academic preparation of under represented students in the community through partnerships with K-12 schools and districts and the Preuss School, UCSD’s on-campus model charter school.

Since receiving his PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1971, he has studied classroom organization, educational testing, tracking and untracking, computer use in schools and the construction of identities such as the “competent student,” the “learning disabled student,” the “mentally ill patient” and the “genius.” He has worked closely with K-12 educators so that they can make informed decisions to insure that excellent educational opportunities are available to all children.

He has authored 5 books (The Reality of Ethnomethodology, Learning Lessons, Handicapping the Handicapped, Constructing School Success), and Extending School Reform: From One School to Many and edited 4 (Language Use and School Performance, The Write Help, The Social Organization of Intellectual Behavior, and The Discourse of the Nuclear Arms Race).

His recently published book, Extending School Reform: From One School To Many (with Amanda Datnow and Lea Hubbard), discusses the processes, challenges, and consequences of “scaling up” educational reforms.

A member of the National Academy of Education, he is the recipient of 4 teaching awards and a public service award at UCSD: The Thurgood Marshall College Outstanding Teaching Award in 1991, the Eleanor Roosevelt College Outstanding Teaching Award in 1994, The Academic Senate’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1997, the Muir College “Most Valuable Professor” [MVP] award in 2001, and the Chancellors’ Associates” Outstanding Faculty Member” award in 2004.

Curriculum Vitae

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Fall 2007
SOCB 117: Language, Culture, and Education

Winter 2008:
SOCC 126: Social Organization of Education

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