Assistant Professor of Higher & Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University
About
Dr. Meseret F. Hailu is an assistant professor of higher and postsecondary education at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the retention of minoritized women in STEM higher education pathways. Recently, her work has focused on 1) how Black immigrant women in the U.S. persist in engineering, and 2) how higher education institutions in Eastern/Southern Africa conceptualize and implement equity initiatives. Her research has been published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Harvard Education Review, and Review of Research in Education. Prior to coming to ASU, Dr. Hailu was a postdoctoral research associate at The Ohio State University, where she studied the experiences of faculty women of color in engineering departments. During her doctoral studies, she received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship award from the U.S. Department of Education.
Current Work:
In her research, Dr. Hailu aims to answer the following question: how do institutions of higher education retain minoritized women in STEM pathways? To answer this question, she currently have two active research projects that examine: (1.) How do Black immigrant women faculty draw from their cultural epistemologies to navigate and persist in STEM disciplines in the U.S.? (2.) How do higher education institutions across the Global South conceptualize and implement gender equity initiatives in STEM?
Research Area Keyword(s):
women; engineering; higher education; comparative education; mixed methods research
