- Ph.D Candidate in Higher Education, Iowa State University
Stephanie Sowl is a PhD candidate studying Higher Education at Iowa State University. Her research explores the relationship between spatial inequality and postsecondary opportunities, particularly as it relates to rural, first-generation and/or working-class students. She also is interested in adults' residential mobility patterns over time, specifically trends with different educational levels, postsecondary institutional types, and community contexts.
Experience
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2022–presentSenior Research Analyst, California State University - Los Angeles
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2018–presentGraduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University
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2021–presentResearch Fellow, Campaign for College Opportunity
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2016–2018Research Associate, Arizona State University
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2014–2016Academic Advisor/Coordinator, Arizona State University
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2012–2014Graduate Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publications
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2022Patterns of Undergraduate Student Interpersonal Interaction Network Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic, AERA Open
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2021Rural college graduates: Who comes home?, Rural Sociology
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2021A Systematic Review of Research on Rural College Access since 2000, The Rural Educator
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2021“We don't need a four‐year college person to come here and tell us what to do”: Community college curriculum making after articulation reform, New Directions for Community Colleges
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2021Competing Alternatives: Science and Math Identity Recognition and Credit Accrual in the Trajectory of STEM Major Plans, Innovative Higher Education
Professional Memberships
- American Educational Research Association
- Association for the Study of Higher Education
Contact Stephanie for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Ames, Iowa, U.S.
- X (formerly Twitter): @StephanieSowl
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