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Christine Min Wotipka
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology
Department:
Graduate School of Education
PhD, Stanford University, International Comparative Education
MA, Stanford University, Sociology
BA, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, International Relations & French (summa cum laude)
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 at Treat (formerly EAST) House—a living-learning undergraduate residence. In 2025-26, she was a Faculty Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
For thirty years, Dr. Wotipka’s research has contributed to the comparative scholarship on gender and education, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her articles have appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Gender and Society, American Journal of Education, AERA Open, Journal of LGBT Youth, Comparative Education Review, Compare, Comparative Education, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology, among others. 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 before the August 2021 Taliban takeover.
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.
For thirty years, Dr. Wotipka’s research has contributed to the comparative scholarship on gender and education, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her articles have appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Gender and Society, American Journal of Education, AERA Open, Journal of LGBT Youth, Comparative Education Review, Compare, Comparative Education, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology, among others. 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 before the August 2021 Taliban takeover.
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.