Kathleen Gillon

Kathleen E. Gillon is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Maine. Her research and teaching interests focus broadly on access and equity in higher education. She is especially interested in the role of geography in the facilitation of college-going for marginalized student populations. Her current research qualitatively explores the intersection of gender, geography and community capital and its influence on post-secondary educational opportunity for rural college students. Dr. Gillon has been published in a variety of scholarly and practitioner focused publications, including the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education and Student Affairs, and Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. She is currently co-editing an issue of New Directions for Student Services that focuses on race, culture, and ethnicity in fraternity/sorority life.

Dr. Gillon is also an active member of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), American Educational Research Association (AERA), and ACPA (College Student Educators International) where she has served on the directorate boards for the Commission for Admissions, Orientation and First Year Experience and the Coalition for Women’s Identities. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Gillon worked at Stony Brook University in New York in a variety of areas related to student success, including academic advising, first-year experience, new student orientation and family programs, and honors programs.