Sophia E Abbot

Sophia Abbot is a third-year doctoral student in the Higher Education Program at George Mason University. She currently works as a graduate assistant on the Anti-Racist and Inclusive Teaching (ARIT) team in Stearns Center for Teaching & Learning. Her primary responsibilities include developing inclusive teaching resources for faculty and carrying out assessment of ARIT programming to determine the impacts on instructor's inclusive teaching practices and overall learning.

Sophia has studied the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and students' perspectives on higher education for the last eight years, focusing in particular on pedagogical partnerships and co-creation among students and faculty. Prior to completing her Master of Arts in higher education (Elon University, NC), she spent three years working as a faculty developer at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She has written and presented extensively on partnership, SoTL, and educational development. She currently serves on the International Advisory Board for the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP), as a Special Projects Associate for the journal Teaching and Learning Inquiry, and as a co-chair of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's (ISSOTL) Student Engagement and Co-Inquiry Interest Group.