Bio

Christine Min Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology and Director of the Master’s Program in International Comparative Education (ICE) and International Education Policy Analysis (IEPA) at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She also serves as co-Resident Fellow at the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House. From 2012-2016, she served as Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. In 2019, she was elected to the Stanford Faculty Senate and serves on the Committee on Committees.

Dr. Wotipka’s research centers around two main themes examined from cross-national and longitudinal approaches. The first relates to leadership in higher education with a focus on gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality. The second theme, that of citizenship and education, explores how social science curricula, namely school textbooks, have shifted focus away from the development of national identities to ones that emphasize global citizenship. Her articles have appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, American Journal of Education, and Comparative Education Review.

Academic Appointments

Administrative Appointments

  • Director, ICE/IEPA Master’s Programs, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University (2007 - Present)
  • Director, Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University (2012 - 2016)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Member, Stanford Faculty Senate and Committee on Committees (2019 - Present)
  • Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice (2019 - Present)
  • Consultant, Girls Education Policy, Ministry of Education, Afghanistan (2018 - Present)
  • Expert Advisor, “Educating for the Future” for the Yidan Prize Foundation, the Economist Intelligence Unit (2018 - Present)
  • Member, Advisory Council, Gender and Education Standing Committee, Comparative and International Education Society (2018 - Present)
  • Member, International Relations Committee, American Educational Research Association (2017 - Present)
  • Member, Board of Directors, The Stanford Faculty Club (2016 - Present)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Sociology of Education, an official journal of the American Sociological Association (2015 - 2018)
  • Member, Core Affiliated Faculty Committee, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (2014 - Present)
  • Member, Program Committee, Asian American Studies, Stanford University (2013 - Present)
  • Member, Faculty Advisory Council, Program on Social Entrepreneurship, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (2011 - Present)
  • Member, Program Committee, Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
  • Resident Fellow, Education and Society Theme House, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
  • Member, Steering Committee, Faculty Women’s Forum, Stanford University (2010 - 2016)

Program Affiliations

  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice

Professional Education

  • PhD, Stanford University, International Comparative Education
  • MA, Stanford University, Sociology
  • BA, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, International Relations & French (summa cum laude)

Contact

  • Academic
    cwotipka@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Associate Professor (Teaching
    • 485 Lasuen Mall
    • Graduate School of Education
    • Stanford University
    • Stanford,  California  94305 
    (650) 725-7412 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 3096
  • Profile:
    Gender and Education; Comparative and International Education; Sociology of Education; Research Methods in Education.
  • SUNet ID(s):
    Christine.Min.Wotipka
    Christine.Wotipka
    cwotipka

Links

Research Interests

  • Civic Education
  • Diversity and Identity
  • Gender Issues
  • Higher Education
  • International and Comparative Education
  • Research Methods
  • Sociology

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Christine Min Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology and Director of the Master’s Program in International Comparative Education (ICE) and International Education Policy Analysis (IEPA) at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She also serves as co-Resident Fellow at the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House. From 2012-2016, she served as Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. In 2019, she was elected to the Stanford Faculty Senate and serves on the Committee on Committees.

Dr. Wotipka’s research centers around two main themes examined from cross-national and longitudinal approaches. The first relates to leadership in higher education with a focus on gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality. The second theme, that of citizenship and education, explores how social science curricula, namely school textbooks, have shifted focus away from the development of national identities to ones that emphasize global citizenship. Her articles have appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, American Journal of Education, and Comparative Education Review.

In addition to the applied research methods seminars she leads for the students in the ICE/IEPA master’s program, she also teaches “Gender and Education in Global and Comparative Perspectives” and "Gender and Higher Education: National and International Perspectives." Both are cross-listed in Education; Sociology; and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

In 2010, Dr. Wotipka co-founded the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House – a living-learning space for undergraduates interested in educational research, policy, activism, and teaching. She has served as co-Resident Fellow at EAST House since 2006.

Dr. Wotipka earned her BA (summa cum laude) in International Relations and French at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and MA in Sociology and PhD in International Comparative Education at Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, she was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and a visiting assistant professor/global fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Between her undergraduate and graduate studies, she served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in rural northeast Thailand and worked in the Republic of Korea at an economic research firm.

Projects

  • The ‘Leaky Pipeline’ in Comparative Perspective: Gender Differences among Tenured Faculty in Top Universities, Stanford University

    Location

    Stanford University

    Collaborators

    • Mana Nakagawa, Dr., Facebook
    • Elizabeth Buckner, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
  • Diversity among the Ranks of University and College Presidents: Trends and Explanations, Stanford University

    Location

    Stanford University

    Collaborators

  • The Diversity-affirming Organizational Structures and Environments (DOSE) Index, Stanford University

    Location

    485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 95405 USA

    Collaborators

2019-20 Courses

Stanford Advisees

  • Master's Program Advisor
    Salome Aguilar, Hugo Chaves de Oliveira Almeida, Arnela Colic, Ariane Faria dos Santos, Daniela Gamboa, Meng Guo, Pok Jing Ho, Kate Hoffman, Hannah Johnstone, Yuman Li, Greta Olivares, Mansoor Rathore, Melody Wu, Shang Xu, Yi Yang, Cassie Zhang
  • Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
    Rosie Nelson, Nadine Skinner
  • Doctoral (Program)
    Hannah D'Apice, Rosie Nelson, Nadine Skinner, Jieun Song

All Publications

  • Students’ Understanding of the History of American Slavery: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. The Social Studies Gross, M. H., Wotipka, C. M. 2019; 110 (5): 220-236

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00377996.2019.1630348

  • Mothers’ gendered aspirations for their children: a case study of Forbesganj, Bihar Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education Sharma, G., Wotipka, C. M. 2019; 49 (3): 358-374

    View details for DOI 10.1080/03057925.2017.1412252

  • The Making of a Human Rights Issue: A Cross-National Analysis of Gender-Based Violence in Textbooks, 1950-2011 Gender & Society Russell, S., Lerch, J. C., Wotipka, C. M. 2018

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0891243218786686

  • Mothers’ gendered aspirations for their children: a case study of Forbesganj, Bihar Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education Sharma, G., Wotipka, C. M. 2018: 1-17
  • Global linkages, the higher education pipeline, and national contexts: The worldwide growth of women faculty, 1970–2012 International Journal of Comparative Sociology Wotipka, C. M., Nakagawa, M., Svec, J. 2018; 59 (3): 212-238

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0020715218780475

  • The Worldwide Expansion of Early Childhood Care and Education, 1985–2010 American Journal of Education Wotipka, C. M., Rabling, B. J., Sugawara, M., Tongliemnak, P. 2017; 123 (2): 307–339

    View details for DOI 10.1086/689931

  • The rise, removal, and return of women: gender representations in primary-level textbooks in Afghanistan, 1980–2010 Comparative Education Sarvarzade, S., Wotipka, C. M. 2017; 53 (4): 578-599

    View details for DOI 10.1080/03050068.2017.1348021

  • The Worldwide Incorporation of Women and Women's Rights Discourse in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008 COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW Nakagawa, M., Wotipka, C. M. 2016; 60 (3): 501-529

    View details for Web of Science ID 000380375600004

  • International Students in Chinese Higher Education: Choices, Expectations, and Experiences by Region of Origin Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility Hu, C., Wotipka, C. M., Wen, W. IGI Global. 2016: 153–178
  • Learning from the Experiences of Women of Color in MentorNet’s One–on–One Program Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering Muller, C. M., Blake-Beard, S., Barsion, S., Wotipka, C. M. 2012; 18 (4): 315-335

    View details for DOI 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2013004006

  • History Transformed? Gender in the World War II Narratives in U.S. History Textbooks, 1956–2007 Femnist Formations Schrader, C. E., Wotipka, C. M. 2011; 23 (3): 68–88

    View details for DOI 10.1353/ff.2011.0037

  • Global Human Rights and State Sovereignty: State Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties, 1965-2001 96th Annual Meeting of the American-Sociological-Association Wotipka, C. M., Tsutsui, K. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2008: 724–54

    View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2008.00092.x

    View details for Web of Science ID 000262947900004

  • “Women’s Studies as a Global Innovation.” The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education Wotipka, C. M., Ramirez, F. O. edited by Baker, D. P., Wiseman, A. W. Elsevier JAI Press. 2008; 1
  • “World Society and Human Rights: An Event History Analysis of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.” The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy Wotipka, C. M., Ramirez, F. O. edited by Simmons, B. A., Dobbin, F., Garrett, G. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.. 2008
  • “A Transnational Analysis of the Rise and Institutionalization of Women’s Studies.” Revista Española de Sociología Wotipka, C. M., Ramirez, F. O., Díaz Martínez, C. 2007; 17: 35-59
  • “The Worldwide Diffusion of Professional Management Education.” Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change Moon, H., Wotipka, C. M. edited by Drori, G. S., Meyer, J. W., Hwang, H. Oxford: Oxford University Press.. 2006: 121–136
  • Global civil society and the international human rights movement: Citizen participation in human rights international nongovernmental organizations SOCIAL FORCES Tsutsui, K., Wotipka, C. M. 2004; 83 (2): 587-620

    View details for Web of Science ID 000226428700007

  • “Human Rights: Women’s Rights.” New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Wotipka, C. M. edited by Horowitz, M. C. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.. 2004
  • “Women in Science: For Development, For Human Rights, For Themselves.” Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization Wotipka, C. M., Ramirez, F. O. edited by Drori, G. S., Meyer, J. W., Ramirez, F. O., Schofer, E. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. . 2003: 174–195
  • Slowly but surely? The global expansion of women's participation in science and engineering fields of study, 1972-92 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Ramirez, F. O., Wotlpka, C. M. 2001; 74 (3): 231-251

    View details for Web of Science ID 000170240700004

  • “Understanding Racial Polarization on Affirmative Action: The View from Focus Groups.” Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration and Civil Rights Options for America Swain, C. M., Greene, K. R., Wotipka, C. M. edited by Skrentny, J. D. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. . 2001: 214–237