Taylor LiCausi

Taylor recently completed his PhD in the Sociology of Education program and is now a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER). A recipient of the Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship, EDGE Fellowship, and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF), Taylor leverages his qualitative and quantitative methodological training to examine issues in higher education that pertain to knowledge. His interests range from disentangling the complex dynamics of interdisciplinarity to better understanding faculty evaluative cultures. Taylor’s dissertation, Under review: The epistemic subject and perceptions of peer review in sociology journals, draws on faculty interviews to provide insight into peer review in sociology. As a research assistant to Professor Patricia Gumport at SIHER, he is working on a comparative case study examining university research initiatives that address societal problems and involve collaboration beyond higher education.