Sascha C. Mowrey

Department

Role:
Campus: Springfield

Biography

Dr. Sascha Mowrey is assistant professor in the childhood education and family studies department. She teaches in the early childhood education program, where she prepares undergraduate students for classroom teaching, primarily in preschool-grade 3. She also teaches in the early childhood and family development master’s program, working with graduate students focused on deepening their knowledge of early childhood education and developing research projects.

Her research focuses on early childhood educators’ professional roles, social networks and the development of professional collaboration and culture. Mowrey has previously worked for public schools in North Carolina and California.

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Education

  • PhD, Learning, Teaching and Diversity, 2017, Vanderbilt University
  • MAT, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, 2004, Willamette University
  • BA, Human Development and Linguistics, 2003, University of California, San Diego

Awards and honors

  • Outstanding Graduate Mentor Nominee, Missouri State University Graduate College, March 2019
  • Diversity Scholar, Missouri State University Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, September 2018
  • College of Education Conference Travel Award, Missouri State University
  • Peabody Dean’s Fellowship, Vanderbilt University
  • Graduate Honor Scholarship, Vanderbilt University
  • Mary Stuart Rodgers Scholarship, Willamette University
  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of California San Diego

Area of expertise

Education and literacy