In 2016, over 40,000 pages of new research were printed across only 86 of the hundreds of higher education specific journals (Tight, 2018). Perhaps that means this field of study knows a lot, but maybe it means we know very little. Journal publishing is integral to the construction of academic fields, job markets, and policy making. However, not all journals are equal, and the returns experienced vary. Applying Bourdieu’s theory of social and cultural reproduction, my dissertation uses multiple-study design to understand the interactions between the embodied cultural capital held by faculty, institutions, and journals. The initial descriptive analyses offer a conception of how higher education, a practically applied and multidisciplinary field of study, is constructed in terms of representation in its publications. These analyses are followed by a descriptive content analysis to explore where the knowledge produced by higher education faculty is disseminated and the status these outlets may hold. These studies offer insight into how the values held by faculty and institutions may work to reproduce their status and the status of certain journals through social reproduction as the next generation of scholars is trained.