Roslyn Mickelson

Roslyn Mickelson

Chancellor's Professor
Sociology
704-687-7823
Fretwell 490N

Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Sociology
Chancellor’s Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program

Research Interest: ethnicity, race, gender, and social class to educational processes and outcomes, educational policy and school reform, school diversity and outcomes across the life course, gender, race, and STEM K-16+ outcomes.

Faculty Website

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1984

Recent Publications:

  • Bottia, M. C., Stearns, E., Mickelson, R. A., Moller, S., & Jamil, C. (2020). The importance of community colleges in students’ choice to major in STEM. The Journal of Higher Education, 91(7), 1116-1148.
  • Dancy, M., Rainey, K., Stearns, E., Mickelson, R., & Moller, S. (2020). Undergraduates’ awareness of White and male privilege in STEM. International Journal of STEM Education, 7(1), 52.
  • Stearns, E., Bottia, M. C., Giersch, J., Mickelson, R. A., Moller, S., Jha, N., & Dancy, M. (2020). Do relative advantages in STEM grades explain the gender gap in selection of a STEM major in college? A multimethod answer. American Educational Research Journal, 57(1), 218-257.
  • Mickelson, R. A., Bottia, M. C., & Larimore, S. (2021). A metaregression analysis of the effects of school racial and ethnic composition on K–12 reading, language arts, and English outcomes. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 7(3), 401-419.
  • Bottia, M. C., Mickelson, R. A., Jamil, C., Moniz, K., & Barry, L. (2021). Factors associated with college STEM participation of racially minoritized students: A synthesis of research. Review of Educational Research, 91(4), 614-648.
  • Giersch, J., Bottia, M. C., Stearns, E., Mickelson, R. A., & Moller, S. (2021). The predictive role of school performance indicators on students’ college achievement. Educational Policy, 35(7), 1085-1115.
  • Mickelson, R. A., Quiñones, M., Smith, S. S., & Parcel, T. L. (2021). Public opinion, race, and levels of desegregation in five Southern school districts. Social Science Research, 93, 102477.
  • Khudadad, N., & Mickelson, R. A. (2021). School built environment, gender, and student achievement in Pakistan. International Journal of Educational Development, 87, 102503.
  • Van Praag, L., Mickelson, R. A., Stevens, P., & Van Houtte, M. (2021). STEM-aspiraties en studiekeuze in het secundair onderwijs in Vlaanderen: de intersectie van gender en etniciteit. Tijdschrift sociologie/Stichting Tijdschrift Sociologie.-Amsterdam, 2020, currens, 2, 117-140.
  • Parcel, T. L., Bauldry, S., Mickelson, R. A., Smith, S. S., Riel, V., & Boden, M. (2022). Using opinion polling data to replicate non-experimental quantitative results across time and space: an exploration of attitudes surrounding school desegregation and resegregation policies. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(6), 691-716.
  • Mickelson, R. A., Ayscue, J. B., Bottia, M. C., & Wilson, J. J. (2022). The Past, Present, and Future of Brown’s Mandate: A View from North Carolina. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(6), 770-803.
  • Parcel, T. L., & Mickelson, R. A. (2022). School desegregation and resegregation in the upper South: An introduction and overview. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(6), 671-677.
  • Riel, V., Mickelson, R. A., & Smith, S. S. (2022). Who favors magnets and who favors charters? Political ideology, social purpose politics, and school choice in the upper south. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(6), 717-743.
  • Bottia, M. C., Jamil, C., Stearns, E., & Mickelson, R. A. (2022). Socioeconomic differences in North Carolina college students’ pathways into STEM. Teachers college record, 124(1), 30-61.
  • Allen, D., Dancy, M., Stearns, E., Mickelson, R., & Bottia, M. (2022). Racism, sexism and disconnection: Contrasting experiences of Black women in STEM before and after transfer from community college. International Journal of STEM Education, 9(1), 20.
  • Perry, L. B., Saatcioglu, A., & Mickelson, R. A. (2022). Does school SES matter less for high-performing students than for their lower-performing peers? A quantile regression analysis of PISA 2018 Australia. Large-scale assessments in education, 10(1), 17.
  • Mickelson, R. A. (2023). School Diversity and. The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education, 169.
  • Bottia, M. C., Mickelson, R. A., & Stearns, E. (2023). Racially diverse educational pathways and STEM college outcomes: A quantitative analysis of students in North Carolina. Science Education, 107(4), 964-998.
  • Mickelson, R. A., Mikkelsen, I., Dorodchi, M., Cukic, B., Petro, C., Al_Ayeisha, Z., … & Cook, J. (2024). Inspiring and preparing underserved middle school students for computer science: a descriptive case study of the UNC Charlotte/Wilson STEM Academy Partnership. School community journal.
  • Stearns, E., Mickelson, R., Bottia, M., Allen, D., Dancy, M., & Moller, S. (2024). How community college educations generate both science capital and science-specific transfer capital among low-Income white women majoring in STEM. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1-21.
  • Mickelson, R. A., & Saatcioglu, A. (2024). Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes. Social Science Research, 120, 102971.
  • Mickelson, R. A. (2024). School Diversity and Life Course Outcomes. The Sage Handbook of, 169.
  • Berends, M., Schneider, B., Lamb, S., & Mickelson, R. A. (2024). School Diversity and Life Course Outcomes. In The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education. Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Mickelson, R. A., Mikkelsen, I., Dorodchi, M., Cukic, B., & Horn, T. (2024). Fostering greater persistence among underserved computer science undergraduates: a descriptive study of the I-PASS project. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 26(2), 445-472.
    Mickelson, R. A., Allen, D., Bottia, M., Stearns, E., Dancy, M., & Moller, S. (2025). Pre-collegiate factors contributing to the choice of a chemistry major: the role of science capital. Chemistry Education Research and Practice.