Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom completed two years of public service with AmeriCorps as a doctoral student at New York University (PhD. Sociology). After graduating from the State University of New York at Binghamton (B.A. English Literature and Filmmaking), she worked in the New York City and Yonkers public high schools organizing conflict resolution programs. Her first book, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends is forthcoming (2010) from Palgrave McMillan Press, Urban Education Series. The book is based on a four year (9th-12th grade) qualitative study about how school shapes adolescents' friendships. Child Soldiers: From Patriot to Victim (co-author David Rosen) will be published by Rutgers University Press, Childhood Studies series in 2011. Previously published research is about discrimination among minority youth, peer groups, the emotional content of social protest, school choice, racial and ethnic diversity curriculum and classroom self-disclosure among student sex workers.
On her free time Susan enjoys hiking in the Ramapo Mountains and getting lost for short periods of time.
