Fall 2024 Office Hours
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W: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
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Lindsay Jarratt (she/her) is a Visiting Instructor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies from the University of Iowa, and a Master’s in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University. Prior to embarking on an academic career, she worked for fifteen years in higher education in campus assessment, student affairs and support, and faculty and staff DEI initiatives, as well as volunteering locally as a tutor for adult refugees. Through these experiences, she experienced both the promise and the pitfalls of educational systems and practices, making them a fruitful and important site for sociological inquiry.

Lindsay draws on her interdisciplinary training in sociology, history, and education to research the role educational systems play in the production and maintenance of social inequities, negotiation of power and ownership in learning ecologies, and capacities of education to resist or transform systems of oppression. Her research has appeared in Research in Higher Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, the Journal of College Student Development, and more. She is also passionate about bridging theory to practice in tangible ways for students and practitioners, as well as democratizing access to research methods, particularly narrative and sociolinguistic methods. She is currently the instructor for courses on contemporary social problems and race and ethnicity, and has previously led courses on higher education administration and leadership, gender, and qualitative and discourse methods.

Lindsay Jarratt CV