Biography
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Dr. Rachel N. Thomas (she/her) specializes in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis in human development. She shares her growing expertise through teaching, and has taught at Ball State University (Muncie, IN, USA), Ivy Tech Community College (IN, USA), and is currently serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hanover College (Hanover, IN, USA). Dr. Thomas has experience teaching in a variety of course modalities, including in-person, online, and hybrid/hy-flex. In 2020, Dr. Thomas' teaching was recognized as excellent by Ball State University and the regional organization for graduate schools (Midwestern Association for Graduate Schools; mags-net.org/excellence-in-teaching-award/).
Dr. Thomas' teaching is informed by her research, which is often transformative and aimed at actionable implications. Much of her work can be situated within an eclectic framework drawing from cross-cultural, social, and developmental psychological traditions. Major themes in her research involve issues of inclusion in educational settings, especially related to diversity of gender identity and expression. |
if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” |