Stephanie Sowl is a PhD candidate studying Higher Education at Iowa State University. Her research explores the relationship between spatial inequality and postsecondary opportunities, particularly as it relates to rural, first-generation and/or working-class students. She also is interested in adults' residential mobility patterns over time, specifically trends with different educational levels, postsecondary institutional types, and community contexts.
Experience
2022–present
Senior Research Analyst, California State University - Los Angeles
2018–present
Graduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University
2021–present
Research Fellow, Campaign for College Opportunity
2016–2018
Research Associate, Arizona State University
2014–2016
Academic Advisor/Coordinator, Arizona State University
2012–2014
Graduate Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publications
2022
Patterns of Undergraduate Student Interpersonal Interaction Network Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic, AERA Open
2021
Rural college graduates: Who comes home?, Rural Sociology
2021
A Systematic Review of Research on Rural College Access since 2000, The Rural Educator
2021
“We don't need a four‐year college person to come here and tell us what to do”: Community college curriculum making after articulation reform, New Directions for Community Colleges
2021
Competing Alternatives: Science and Math Identity Recognition and Credit Accrual in the Trajectory of STEM Major Plans, Innovative Higher Education