Christine Min Wotipka

Christine Min Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology and Director of the Master’s Programs in Global and Comparative Education (GCE) and International Education Policy Analysis (IEPA) at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is Co-Resident Fellow of EAST House—a living-learning undergraduate residence on the west side of campus. In 2025-26, she is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

For nearly thirty years, Dr. Wotipka’s research has contributed to the comparative scholarship on gender and education and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. She is the lead principal investigator of the Higher Education and Diversity Lab (https://heidive.stanford.edu/).

Before joining the faculty at Stanford in 2006, Dr. Wotipka was a visiting assistant professor/global fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Between her undergraduate and graduate studies, she proudly served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in rural northeast Thailand and worked at the Hanwha Group’s economic research center in Seoul, South Korea. Among Dr. Wotipka’s professional activities, she has consulted on girls' education policies for the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan.

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 Ph.D. in International Comparative Education at Stanford University.