Annie Wofford

Associate Director, Equity in Graduate Education Consortium

Assistant Professor of Higher Education

Florida State University

Annie M. Wofford, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Florida State University. Her research interests center on structural inequities within graduate education, and she focuses on the development of equity-minded structures of support in STEM students’ trajectories to and through graduate school. More specifically, she has recently explored how STEM doctoral students develop as mentors, how doctoral students’ mentoring practices are informed by their social identities and experiences, and how departmental cultures guide mentoring structures in STEM through empirical research and a research-practice partnership funded by the Inclusive Graduate Education Network. Wofford has been a research affiliate for several NSF-funded projects about equity in STEM and graduate school trajectories, including projects focused on equity in collegiate computing, Ph.D. pathways for upward transfer computing students, and doctoral students’ experiences in biological sciences. Wofford earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles, a master’s degree in educational administration, a bachelor’s degree in secondary social studies education, and worked in medical school graduate admissions.