Taylor LiCausi

Taylor LiCausi is a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate School of Education with a focus on higher education. Taylor recently completed his PhD here at Stanford where he investigated how sociology faculty make sense of peer review as the evaluated, as epistemic subjects, illuminating how faculty perceptions connect with knowledge-making practices. As a former recipient of the Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF), Taylor brings diverse theoretical and methodological insights to his work at SIHER. As a research assistant to Professor Patricia Gumport, he is working on a comparative case study examining university research initiatives that address societal problems and involve collaboration beyond higher education.

Prior to coming to Stanford, Taylor was a middle and high school biology and special education teacher at the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, New York. He received an M.S.Ed in Special Education from Hunter College as well as a joint A.B. in Social Anthropology and Romance Languages & Literatures, cum laude, from Harvard College. He also holds an MA in Sociology, an MA in Linguistics, and a PhD in the Sociology of Education from Stanford University.