Research Assistant
PhD, University of Southern California, Urban Education Policy, 2019
Research Interests
Equity and inclusion | Leadership | Sociology of education | Organizing and activism | Race and resistance
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Marissiko M. Wheaton is a research assistant at the Pullias Center for Higher Education and a Rossier Dean’s Fellow in the Urban Education Policy PhD program at USC Rossier School of Education. Her research experience includes work on a large longitudinal mixed-methods study, which examines a comprehensive college transition program, serving predominantly low-income and first generation students. In addition, she is on a study that explores lessons learned, and strategies implemented, by university leadership at the University of Missouri, following the nationally publicized campus racial crisis in 2015. Wheaton has collaborated on multiple publications exploring issues which impact marginalized identity groups in higher education.
Wheaton attended community college at Santa Monica College and transferred to the University of California, Irvine where she earned her BA in social ecology. She obtained her master’s degree in higher education/student personnel administration from New York University.
Dissertation committee
Adrianna Kezar (chair), Samuel Museus, Lanita Jacobs, Charles H.F. Davis
Dissertation title
Consciousness is Power: An examination of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Critical Race Resistance
