Christine Min Wotipka

Christine Min Wotipka

Associate Professor (Teaching)
GCE/IEPA MA Program Director
Assistant: Melissa Cromosini
Office: Raikes 310

Biography

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 º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Graduate School of Education. She is Co-Resident Fellow of EAST House—a living-learning undergraduate residence in the Magnolia neighborhood on west campus.

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 º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø 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 º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø University.

Other titles

Associate Professor (Teaching),
Associate Professor (Teaching) (By courtesy), Sociology

Program affiliations

SHIPS (PhD)
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD): Higher Education
SHIPS (PhD): Social Sciences in Education
SHIPS (PhD): Sociology of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Global and Comparative Education
(MA) GCE/IEPA

Research interests

Civic Education | Diversity and Identity | Gender Issues | Higher Education | International and Comparative Education | Race and Ethnicity | Research Methods | Sociology

Recent publications

Zhao, J., & Wotipka, C. M. (2025). Gender disparities in Chinese middle school science textbooks: A semiotic analysis. WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM, 113.
Nakagawa, M., Wotipka, C. M., & Buckner, E. (2024). Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status. SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 11, 1084–1106.
Lee, S. S., Wotipka, C. M., Ramirez, F. O., & Song, J. (2024). To STEM or not to STEM: A cross-national analysis of gender and tertiary graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math, 1998-2018. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY.