Wotipka, Christine Min

Christine Min Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology. She is Director of the Master’s Program in International Comparative Education and International Education Policy Analysis at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She also serves as co-Resident Fellow at the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House.

Dr. Wotipka’s research interests include gender and higher education, and globalization and citizenship education. She has a Spencer Foundation Grant titled “Globalization, Citizenship, and Education: A Cross–National Study of Curricula, 1955–2005” (with Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer). Among other studies, this grant supports her current paper with Mana Nakagawa, “The Worldwide Incorporation of Women and Women’s Rights Discourse in Social Science Textbooks, 1970–2008.” Another study, with Corbin Schrader (published in Feminist Formations), examines women’s depictions in World War II narratives in American History textbooks over forty years.

Dr. Wotipka’s affiliations with centers and programs on campus are numerous. She serves as director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and is also particularly active with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research having served as the Iris F. Litt, M.D., Director of the Graduate Dissertation Fellows Program; a member of the Faculty Advisory Board; a Non–Residential Faculty Research Fellow in 2008-09; and a consultant to the Institute’s Dual–Career Academics Program.

In 2010, Dr. Wotipka and her husband, Anthony Lising Antonio (Associate Professor of Education at Stanford), founded the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House – a living-learning space for undergraduates interested in educational research, policy, activism, and teaching. Dr. Wotipka leads a weekly seminar at EAST House titled “Current Issues and Debates in Education.” Previous to that, Drs. Wotipka and Antonio were Resident Fellows at EAST House under its former theme of East Asian Studies from 2006-10.

Having proudly served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in rural northeast Thailand from 1993-95, Dr. Wotipka returned to Thailand in 2008 when she and Dr. Antonio led an overseas seminar with the Bing Overseas Studies Program. While there, they and their students met Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn; former prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva; and other governmental and non-governmental officials, Thai academics, and Stanford alumni who spoke on the seminar’s theme of education, development, and globalization.

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.

Dr. Wotipka enjoys spending her free time with her husband, their two school-aged children, and their rescue dog, a poochon named Zebi (“river” in Chippewa). She enjoys politics, the outdoors, independent movies, and fiery Asian food.

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