Blake R Silver Editor & Author

Blake R. Silver is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Educational Pathways and Faculty Development at George Mason University. He is the author of The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses (2020), which won an American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Book Award and the NASPA Faculty Council Outstanding Publication Award. Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at George Mason University. Informed by her experiences as a first-generation college student of immigrant origin, she has over twenty years of experience as a scholar-practitioner centered around holistic student development, increasing access to higher education, mattering, community-building, and creating inclusive learning spaces.