Wotipka, Christine Min
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Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)
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Dr. Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology. She is the director of the master's programs in International Comparative Education/ International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis. Her scholarly interests include gender and higher education, citizenship education, and international human rights. Dr. Wotipka teaches the ICE/IEAPA MA program seminars; Education, Gender, and Development; and undergraduate seminars in the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House. 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.
Cross-national studies of female faculty, citizenship education, and early childhood education programs.
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"A more radical approach to women in science for the sake of progress, however, has also been taking place in both theoretical and practical terms. This perspective stresses the role of women qua women in science and focuses not solely on access, but on the transformation of science and the creation of scientific knowledge.
The ramifications of such an approach are many and include de-masculinizing science, challenging the biases of the medical establishment (and other science establishments) against women and demanding science created not only by women, but for women and for the issues that they deem to be relevant to their lives."
- from her book chapter, "Women in Science: For Development, For Human Rights, For Themselves" (with Francisco O. Ramirez)
Education
- PhD, International Comparative Education, Stanford University, 2001
- MA, Sociology, Stanford University, 1999
- BA (highest honors), International Relations and French, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1993
Time at Stanford
Since 2006
Associate Professor (Teaching) (2010-present)
Assistant Professor (2006-2010)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota (2005-06)
Global Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles International Institute (2003-04)
Director, Master's Program in International Comparative Education, Stanford University School of Education (2001-03)
Consultant and Associate Director of Programs, MentorNet (2001 & 2004-05)
U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Thailand (1993-95)
Courses Taught
- Applied Research Methods in International and Comparative Education (EDUC 206A-D)
- Education, Gender, and Development (EDUC 197)
- Education and Society Theme (EAST) House Seminar (EDUC 100A-C)
- Gender and Higher Education (EDUC 273)
- World, Societal, and Educational Change: Comparative Perspective (EDUC 306D)
- Comparative Studies of Educational and Political Systems (EDUC 387)
- International Human Rights and Education (EDUC 215X)
- Master’s Seminar in Social Sciences in Education (EDUC 211)
Current Syllabus: Download PDF
Recent Publications
“History Transformed? Gender in the World War II Narratives in U.S. History Textbooks, 1956-2007” in Feminist Formations (with C. Schrader, 2011).
"Globalization, Citizenship, and Education: The Rise and Spread of Cosmopolitan, Multicultural, and Individual Empowerment Frames" in Peruvian Education Review (with F. Ramirez and J. Meyer, 2009).
"Global Human Rights and State Sovereignty: Nation-States’ Ratifications of International Human Rights Treaties, 1965-2001" in Sociological Forum (with K. Tsutsui, 2008).
"Women’s Studies as a Global Innovation" in The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education (with F. Ramirez, 2008).
"World Society and Human Rights: An Event History Analysis of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women" in The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy (with F. Ramirez, 2008).
"The Worldwide Diffusion of Professional Management Education" in Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change (with H. Moon, 2006).
"Global Civil Society and the International Human Rights Movement: Citizen Participation in Human Rights International Nongovernmental Organizations" in Social Forces (with K. Tsutsui, 2004).
"Women in Science: For Development, For Human Rights, For Themselves" in Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization (with F. Ramirez, 2003).
"Slowly But Surely? The Global Expansion of Women's Participation in Science and Engineering Fields of Study, 1972-92" in Sociology of Education (with F. Ramirez, 2001).
Current Activities
Resident Fellow, Education and Society Theme House (2010-present)
Resident Fellow, East Asian Studies Theme House (2006-2010)
Faculty Affiliate, Fellow, and Advisory Board, Clayman Institute for Gender Research (2006-present)
Faculty Affiliate, Asian American Studies (2007-present)
Core Faculty, Feminist Studies Program (2008-present)
Faculty Affiliate, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2009-present)
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (2009-present)
Pre-Major Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Advising & Research (2009-2011)
Director, Graduate Dissertation Fellows Program, Clayman Institute for Gender Research (2009-2010)
