About MeKatherine S. Cho, Ph.D., (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor in Higher Education (with tenure) and Chair of the Higher Education & International Education program at Loyola University, Chicago. Grounded in her experiences as a scholar, educator, administrator, advocate, and organizer, her research agenda centers on the duality of higher education's potential to positively transform the campus towards equity and their reality of maintaining systems of oppression and manifesting harm Her work spans across campus organizing and activism; institutionalized disparities (racism, genderism, coloniality) and their impact on labor; and flipping the narrative of "why aren't students prepared for college" to "why aren't colleges prepared for our students."
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Photography by John Cho
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Her courses include organizational theory; foundations in higher education; research methods; practicum for dissertation development; racial realities in higher education; and her pedagogy is grounded in (re)humanizing education and challenging the ways academic socialization contributes to neoliberalism, competition, and constructed scarcity. Prior, Dr. Cho was a research analyst, a higher education administrator and student affairs practitioner, worked within the nonprofit sector, and served as an associate board member, mural artist, wedding coordinator, and calligrapher. Dr. Cho received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles; an M.A. in Sociology & Education from Columbia University, Teachers College; and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. She is a 2021 William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative Computational Scholar with the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computation, and Mixed Methodologies; a 2019 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow; and a 2019 Faculty First-Look Scholar. An avid patron of the arts, you can find her around and about in Chicago, enjoying a musical, comedy show, opera, poetry reading, museum, or a great book.
