Solon is a Sociologist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and an undergraduate degree in the History of Science from the University of Chicago. He has published in several top journals in Sociology and Political Science, including Berkeley’s The Forum, Social Forces, The Sociology of Religion, the Annual Review of Public Administration, and the SSRC web forum in addition to several additional articles and chapters on politics and social attitudes, social stratification and educational inequality.