DR. KATHERINE S. CHO

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  • Reflections

About Me

Dr. Katherine S. Cho (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in Higher Education at Loyola University, Chicago. Grounded in her experiences as a scholar, educator, administrator, advocate, and organizer, Dr. Cho's research agenda centers on the potential of higher education to positively transform the campus towards equity and their reality of maintaining systems of oppression and manifesting harm. Her work spans across campus activism; institutionalized racism; labor efforts; and flipping the narrative of "why aren't students prepared for college" to "why aren't colleges prepared for our students." 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.
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​Prior to, Dr. Cho was an assistant professor at Miami University; a research analyst at the Higher Education Research Institute focusing on how colleges and universities increase the retention for marginalized and minoritized student populations; and a higher education administrator and student affairs practitioner managing several student-leadership programs and worked for an educational nonprofit centered on service-learning and civic engagement. She has additionally worked as a teaching fellow, 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 an 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. Dr. Cho enjoys taking care of her ever-growing plant collection, reading a great book or short story, and enjoying the artistic offerings of Chicago.
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About This Site

This site serves, in part, as an embodiment one of my research areas: the socialization within academia and the (hidden) curricula necessary to endure and thrive through it, which is often impacted by scarcity fears, neoliberalism, perfectionism and intersectional systems of oppression (e.g., racism) [read more here]. As a result, this site serves to shed light on what is hidden by cultivating and sharing knowledge and resources. 

In its other part, this website can be best described as the resistance to remain the whole, imperfect me. In academia (including my own field of education), we are often expected to be the representation of our work (only), and even at that, the "final" versions of ourselves. And yet we are so much more, which is reflected in the labor of process. Thus, within this site I include snippets— reflections — of my dreams, my struggles, my reflections.  I hope you find some meaning and support in what is here. 
 If you want a longer story of how this site was got started, its evolution, and advice, check out this post. And  if you are thinking about creating an academic website yourself, here is an additional post about the "research" section.  If you're unsure where to start with the site, check out the home page which has an overview of the different areas. Happy exploring~ 

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