PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – PSTC Trainee Meghan Caven has been selected as one of four Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows for the coming academic year. The fellows will teach at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and gain valuable experience, fine tuning what they have learned during their studies at Brown. 

Caven, who is a PhD candidate in Sociology, will be teaching a course on Schools and Social Inequality, and aims to incorporate a community engaged scholarship approach, teaching qualitative research skills and exploring the relationships between social inequality and education. 

"The PSTC has exposed me to multidisciplinary angles on problems of inequality and stratification, and shaped the way the course thinks about macro, meso, and micro level processes that contribute to social reproduction," she said.

Caven is eager to engage in the classroom. “I love facilitating students’ intellectual engagement with new material and approaches to understanding the world around them,” she said. "The wide range of research methods brought together within the PSTC has informed the set of skills I hope to teach my students."

Read more about the fellows here. And more about Caven's research here.