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Cara Margherio

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2015Rising activity
Career Development and DiversityInterdisciplinary Research and CollaborationEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentMentoring and Academic DevelopmentBiomedical and Engineering Education

Publications

44

Citations

251

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

10

Publishing since 2015

Research summary
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Cara Margherio studies how change happens in academic institutions, particularly engineering education, focusing on faculty development, mentoring, and building diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into departments and research teams. Her work often examines 'counterspaces' (supportive community settings), communities of practice, and how teams of educators and researchers organize to drive systemic change. This research is largely applied and evaluative, drawing on qualitative and collaborative methods like ethnography.

Academic change and team formationDiversity, equity, and inclusion in STEMFaculty and mentoring developmentEngineering education reformCommunities of practice and counterspaces

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a dip around 2021-2022 followed by a notable increase to 14 publications in 2024, suggesting recently growing activity.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.8/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 6 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 10 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 2 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 14 publications14242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×2
  • Research in Higher Education×1
  • Social Sciences×1
  • Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal×1
  • Innovative Higher Education×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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