Sarah Ovink

Sarah M. Ovink, PhD is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on inequalities in higher education pathways by race/ethnicity, gender, and income, using mixed methods of inquiry. Her publications have appeared in a variety of journals, including Gender & Society, Social Currents, and Research in Higher Education. She is a co-editor of the volume, Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses (2019, Rutgers University Press). She is the author of Race, Class and Choice in Latino/a Higher Education: Pathways in the College-for-All Era (2017, Palgrave Macmillan). She is the recipient of a 2015 NSF CAREER award, investigating intersectional inequalities in STEM and non-STEM undergraduate pathways. Dr. Ovink received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Kalamazoo College, and her Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She lives in Blacksburg, VA with her family.