Biography

Dr. Meagan Sundstrom is a postdoctoral researcher and 2025 Cotswold Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Drexel University, working with Drs. Eric Brewe and Adrienne Traxler (University of Copenhagen). Her research uses concept inventories, social network analysis, and classroom observations to characterize and measure the impacts of named active learning methods in undergraduate physics courses. Previously, Meagan completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University with Dr. Natasha Holmes. Her dissertation research used social network analysis to understand undergraduate physics students' interactions with their peers and recognition of their strong peers. She also conducted qualitative research related to student epistemic framing, the ways in which students expect to construct knowledge, in non-traditional physics labs. Meagan earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics-Physics from the University of Connecticut, where she operationalized the construct of Intellectual Humility for physics education research. 

Education

Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University (2024)

NSF Graduate Research Fellow, NextGen Professor, Bouchet Honor Society Scholar

B. S., Mathematics-Physics, University of Connecticut (2019)

Summa Cum Laude, Honors Scholar, University Scholar, Babbidge Scholar