Assistant Professor, Integrative and Global Studies; Director of the Great Problems Seminar
Sarah Stanlick, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies and the Director of the Great Problems Seminar at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The founding director of Lehigh University’s Center for Community Engagement and faculty member in Sociology and Anthropology, she previously taught at Centenary College of New Jersey, and was a researcher at Harvard’s Kennedy School, assisting the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power.
She has published in journals such as The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, The Social Studies, and the Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education. She co-chairs the Imagining America Assessing Practices of Public Scholarship (APPS) collective, which focuses on democratically engaged assessment practices to empower and transform systems, communities, and individuals, and is also a member of SSSP and serves on the Steering Committee for the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative (The Collaborative).
Ms. Stanlick's priority for teaching, research, and service is to encourage and model engaged, active citizenship and help create conditions for all community members to be able to engage similarly. Her current interests include global citizenship, health and human rights, transformative learning, and the internet's impact on empowerment and capacity to build community.