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This Instructor Spotlight installment features an interview that we conducted with Dr. Claudia Buchmann.
Dr. Claudia Buchmann is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Sociology. She is internationally known for her research on gender inequalities in education, with a focus on how women have come to attain more education than men in most regions of the world today. She is coauthor of The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools (2013, Russell Sage Foundation) which was awarded theOtis Dudley Duncan Book Award by the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Population and the Outstanding Book Award of the ASA Section on Inequality Poverty and Mobility.
Dr. Buchmann’s influential scholarship has been published in many top journals and has received widespread attention from the academic community and the news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR and the BBC. Dr. Buchmann is a recipient of the Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellowship and her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
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We want to express our gratitude to Dr. Claudia Buchmann for participating in our Instructor Spotlight series. Dr. Buchmann was also featured as a panelist in our teaching forum event, Facilitating Student Collaboration and Peer Engagement. More information about this event as well as a recording can be found on our website ascode.osu.edu. Thank you to all those listening for joining us for this installment of the Office of Distance Education's Instructor Spotlight. Visit ascode.osu.edu/resources to find more Instructor Spotlight features as well as helpful instructional guides, tools, and strategies we hope you'll continue to follow along with this series as we feature more incredible Arts and Sciences instructors.
If you are interested in nominating an outstanding instructor who has invested in developing and delivering online courses, please email ascode@osu.edu using the subject line, "Instructor Spotlight Recommendation." Explore the full catalog of Instructor Spotlights here.
This feature was designed and edited by ASC Office of Distance Education Instructional Designer, Sarah Dove.