sm5952@columbia.edu
212 853-0658
212 Butler Library

Sam Mitchell is the Assistant Director of Faculty Programs and Services at the CTL. In her role, Sam supports instructors at Columbia and affiliate schools through one-on-one consultation, the design and facilitation of workshops and other programming, and the creation and curation of on-demand teaching resources. She is particularly passionate about advancing evidence-based, inclusive teaching practices and alternative grading.

Prior to joining the CTL at Columbia, Sam worked as a Graduate Consultant at the Drake Institute for Teaching at Learning at Ohio State University. There, she supported the pedagogical and professional development of graduate teaching associates through consultation, monthly teaching workshops, and the creation of online teaching resources.

Sam has several years of experience teaching at the undergraduate level in the department of Sociology at Ohio State University and the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. In 2023, Sam was awarded the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, the most competitive teaching award available for graduate teaching associates at Ohio State University. Sam earned her PhD in sociology from the Ohio State University in 2025 where she also received her M.A. in sociology in 2021. She holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research centers on educational stratification and alternative grading practices and has been published in Social Sciences and Teaching Sociology.

In her free time, Sam enjoys making art, writing, collecting CDs and vinyl records, reading, and walking around the parks in upper Manhattan.