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Research Assistant

Erika Bullock

Erika Bullock is an advanced Ph.D. candidate in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, where she studies the history of American higher education. Erika’s dissertation project is a historical study of alternative education programs in the Bay Area in the 1960s-1980s. A recipient of the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, Erika has research specializations in qualitative research methods and interview-based studies, archival methods, and historical projects ranging from the history of activism and college curricula to the history of college access and admissions. Erika is a research assistant with Professor Patricia Gumport on a comparative case study examining university research initiatives that address societal problems and involve collaboration beyond higher education.

Before Stanford, Erika worked between the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and the Designing the Future(s) Initiative at Georgetown University to advance equitable and flexible approaches to undergraduate education. She also led a Stanford d.school project on the future of undergraduate education. Erika received her undergraduate degree in English and Literature with honors, graduating summa cum laude, from Georgetown University.