Dr. Wotipka’s scholarly interests include gender and higher education, citizenship education, and international human rights. Her work has appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, and Feminist Formations. She teaches Education, Gender, and Development; Gender and Higher Education; Current Issues and Debates in Education; and applied research methods in International Comparative Education. Her other teaching experience includes two years of service as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in rural northeast Thailand. She has also conducted research in the Republic of Korea and Morocco. 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.