Undergraduate Researcher, Swarthmore College
BA, Education and Sociology, Swarthmore College
Sarah Dobbs studies the role secondary and post-secondary education plays in the socialization of science as a gendered discipline. She is particularly interested in the opportunities education provides to intercept the gendered socialization and structures in science and what resistance and replacement would look like to bring more equity to the field. She enjoys the investigative, creative aspect of qualitative research. She received her bachelor’s in education and sociology — as well as a secondary social studies teaching certification — from Swarthmore College.
When not working, Dobbs can be found running or body surfing. She is a varsity cross country and track runner at Swarthmore and has been running competitively since age 12. She also loves the ocean and spends her free days in LA riding waves.
Projects
FIELD: Fieldwork Inspiring Expanded Leadership in Diversity
This project is an ethnographic research of field-based experiences at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The work will be used to inform the design of a leadership institute for geoscientists who facilitate field-based experiences.