Karen Eppley

Roles:
Editor, Journal Manager

Editorial groups:
Editors

Affiliation:

• • Associate Professor and Director
  • Rural Education Center
  • Kansas State University

Biography

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A former rural K-12 student and rural fifth-grade teacher in Northern Appalachia, Karen Eppley is an Associate Professor of Rural Education at Kansas State University where she directs the Rural Education Center. Her research agenda explores the ways in which opportunity does not manifest equally across space and asks questions about teaching and learning at the intersection of placed-identities, rural education, and policy. She is a co-author of Why Rural Matters (2023, 2025), Teaching in Rural Places: Thriving in Classrooms, Schools, and Communities and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Rural Education in the United States. She is the editor of the Journal of Research in Rural Education. 

Publications

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