Pietro Sasso

Dr. Pietro A. Sasso is an author, researcher, and professor of higher education leadership. His research centers the voices of college students and is the senior curator of several text series. He is also generally very vocal across social media and made numerous public discourse contributions within the media. He is currently a research fellow at the Piazza Center for Fraternity & Sorority Research and Reform.

Dr. Pietro A. Sasso has over fifteen years of professional and teaching experience in postsecondary education. As an administrator, his experience is exceptionally diverse, spanning several educational administrative functional areas. In each of these functional areas, Pietro has been provided with increasing levels of responsibility which demands various levels of leadership. He has provided significant culture change and improvements to each of his areas of accountability. He is also a research-scholar with significant experiences as an educator and academic advisor to both undergraduate and graduate students. His research interests include the college experience (student involvement, multiraciality, masculinity), student success (academic advising, student persistence), and educational equity across co-curricular spaces.

Pietro has written and co-edited 10 books, authored approximately 80 scholarly publications, and facilitated over 100 conference presentations. He serves as a reviewer for more than 7 journals including the Journal of Student Affairs Research & Practice and Journal of College Student Development as well as serves as senior co-editor for the text series Identity & Practice in Higher Education-Student Affairs by Information Age Publishing. He is the recipient of the AFA Dr. Charles Eberly Research Award, ACPA Men and Masculinities Emerging Scholar-In-Residence, and TACUSPA Faculty Member of the Year (2022).