Researcher · Author · Educator
Investigating race and class inequalities from early childhood to emerging adulthood
Dr. Casey Stockstill is a sociologist and advocate for early childhood equity. She is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College, where she teaches courses about race, class, and the life course.
Her journey to this role includes being born and raised in the Inland Empire of California, being a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, and being the first in her family to graduate college.
She lives in central New Hampshire with her husband and three young children.
Four-City Child Care Study
This project is a case study of midsize cities in four states: Connecticut, Georgia, New Hampshire, and North Carolina
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers
Winner, Bourdieu Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Education
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth.
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers is an inside look at the racial and class divides between Head Start and private pre-K classrooms for children and their families
The benefits of preschool have been part of our national conversation since the 1960s. Yet, as Casey Stockstill reminds us, two-thirds of American preschools are segregated.
Public Sociology
My work encompasses three areas: research, policy and practice.
This is a digital scrapbook of work I am proud of that is oriented outside the literal and figurative walls of the academy.
Teaching & Mentoring
At Dartmouth, I teach courses within the Sociology department.
I also consider it an honor to mentor students and junior colleagues.
False Starts is an absolutely fantastic book. Beautifully written.
Shamus Rahman Khan
author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School