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Josipa Roksa

Josipa Roksa

· Professor of Sociology and Education

University of Virginia · Sociology and Anthropology

Active 2003–2025

h-index37
Citations5.0k
Papers9919 last 5y
Funding$412k

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Josipa Roksa is a Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Virginia. Her scholarly inquiry centers on the extent to which education amplifies, preserves, or reduces social inequality, with a current focus on students’ experiences in STEM fields. Her earlier work has explored the development of critical thinking skills during college and the role of parenting practices in fostering student success and reproducing socioeconomic inequalities. She currently serves as the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Social Science
  • Psychology
  • Pedagogy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mathematics education
  • Political Science
  • Computer Science
  • Developmental psychology
  • Medical education

Selected publications

  • Postdocs’ lab engagement predicts trajectories of PhD students’ skill development

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019-09-30 · 67 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    The doctoral advisor-typically the principal investigator (PI)-is often characterized as a singular or primary mentor who guides students using a cognitive apprenticeship model. Alternatively, the "cascading mentorship" model describes the members of laboratories or research groups receiving mentorship from more senior laboratory members and providing it to more junior members (i.e., PIs mentor postdocs, postdocs mentor senior graduate students, senior students mentor junior students, etc.). Her…

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  • Balancing Research and Service in Academia: Gender, Race, and Laboratory Tasks

    Gender & Society · 2019-08-13 · 61 citations

    articleSenior author

    Our study highlights specific ways in which race and gender create inequality in the workplace. Using in-depth interviews with 67 biology PhD students, we show how engagement with research and service varies by both gender and race. By considering the intersection between gender and race, we find not only that women biology graduate students do more service than men, but also that racial and ethnic minority men do more service than white men. White men benefit from a combination of racial and ge…

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  • Unequal expectations: First-generation and continuing-generation students’ anticipated relationships with doctoral advisors in STEM

    Higher Education · 2021 · 37 citations

    Senior authorCorresponding
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  • Navigating the First Year of College: Siblings, Parents, and First‐Generation Students’ Experiences

    Sociological Forum · 2020 · 31 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    Although college education is a key to upward mobility, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to enter and complete college than their more advantaged peers. Prior literature has illuminated how cultural capital contributes to these disparities. An alternative conceptualization of cultural capital, however, suggests that it can also play a role in social mobility. In this study, we build on and extend the literature on cultural mobility by proposing that expos…

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  • Finding a Fit: Biological Science Doctoral Students’ Selection of a Principal Investigator and Research Laboratory

    CBE—Life Sciences Education · 2020 · 29 citations

    In the laboratory-based disciplines, selection of a principal investigator (PI) and research laboratory (lab) indelibly shapes doctoral students' experiences and educational outcomes. Framed by the theoretical concept of person-environment fit from within a socialization model, we use an inductive, qualitative approach to explore how a sample of 42 early-stage doctoral students enrolled in biological sciences programs made decisions about fitting with a PI and within a lab. Results illuminated a…

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    Utah State University

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