Erin McHenry-Sorber, PhD

Associate Professor

304-293-2090 ecmchenrysorber@mail.wvu.edu Download CV

Research Links

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Professional Highlights

2023 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Applied Human Sciences, West Virginia University
2022 National Rural Education Achievement Award. Award presented for meritorious service to the National Rural Education Association.
2022 National Rural Education Association Best Research Paper Award. Best research paper submission to the annual National Rural Education Association research symposium. “National Rural Education Association Research Agenda – 2022-2027: A Closer Look at the Research Priorities.”
2019 Howard A. Dawson Best Research Paper Award, National Rural Education Association Best research paper submission to the annual National Rural Education Association research symposium. “Protecting ourselves from ‘people from away?’ Taking stock of a decade of rural education research since Coladarci’s Swan Song
2019 Mary Catharine Buswell Award, Council for Women’s Concerns, West Virginia University
2019 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Education and Human Services, West Virginia University
Editor, The Rural Educator

Degrees

Ph.D., Educational Leadership, The Pennsylvania State University
M.Ed., Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, Harvard University
B.S.Ed., Secondary Education, English, Bucknell University

Awards

Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Applied Human Sciences, 2023, 2019
Finalist, WVU Distinction in Graduate Research Mentoring Award, Behavioral and Social Sciences Category, 2022
National Rural Education Achievement Award, 2022
National Rural Education Association Best Research Paper Award, 2022, 2019
Mary Catharine Buswell Award, Council for Women’s Concerns, 2019

Areas of Expertise

Rural education
Education policy and politics
Educational leadership

Research Interests

Rural schools and communities
Rural educational leadership
Equity issues

Committees and Memberships

Editor, The Rural Educator
Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Research in Rural Education
Member, National Rural Education Association Higher Education/Research Committee

Biographical Sketch

Erin McHenry-Sorber, PhD, PI, is an associate professor of higher education administration in the School of Education at West Virginia University. Her research centers on rural school-community relations and rural educational leadership, with particular attention to place. Dr. McHenry-Sorber has been a member of the National Rural Education Association (NREA) Research/Higher Education Committee since 2008, co-authored the 2022-2027 NREA Research Agenda, and serves as co-editor of The Rural Educator, which is the official journal of NREA. Her research has been published in Review of Research in Higher Education, Rural Sociology, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Education Policy Analysis Archives, among other journals.