Professor Monaghan's areas of specialization include:
- Higher education
- Education and culture
- Education policy
Selected Publications
- Monaghan, D. B. (2024). Why do people go to college? The institutional environment and the educational dispositions of community college students. Theory and Research in Education (online, print forthcoming)
- Monaghan, D. B., & Attewell, P. A. (2023). College promise programs as symbolic politics. Sociology of Education, 96(4), 301-323.
- Monaghan, D. B. (2023). How Well Do Students Understand “Free Community College”? Promise Programs as Informational Interventions. AERA Open, 9,
- Monaghan, D. B., & Coca, V. M. (2023). Do Community College “Promise” Programs With Low-Bar Merit Criteria Improve High School Performance? Community College Review
- Monaghan, D. B. (2022). Moral education: the cultural significance of higher education in the discourse of non-traditional undergraduates. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 10(1), 164-195.