Faculty Research Fellow, Survey Research Center
      Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center

      Ph.D. in Sociology, 2010

      Master's degree in Sociology, 2006

University of Cologne, Germany, 2001-2004
      Graduate studies in Social Sciences, 2002-2004
      Undergraduate studies in Economics/Sociology, 2001-2002

      "Vordiplom" (BA), October 2002

National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2012

American Educational Research Association, Research Grant, 2011

Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-2010

Dissertation Research Award, Institute for Research on

      Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2009

David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award 2008,

      American Sociological Association, Section on Sociology of

      Education

Nachwuchspreis Bildungssoziologie 2008 (best master's thesis written in the field of sociology of education in the years 2006-2007), German Sociological Association

Pfeffer, Fabian T. 2011 "Status Attainment and Wealth in the United

      States and Germany" in: Erikson, Robert, Markus Jannti and Timothy

      M. Smeeding. "The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility".
      New York: Russell Sage Foundation [download]

Goldrick-Rab, Sara and Fabian T. Pfeffer 2009. "Beyond

      Access. Explaining Socioeconomic Differences in College

      Transfer." Sociology of Education 82(2): 101-125 [download]

Pfeffer, Fabian T. 2008. "Persistent inequality in

      educational attainment and its institutional context."

      European Sociological Review 24(5): 543-565 [download]