For Professor Dahna Stowe, becoming a sociology lecturer at CSU Bakersfield is more than a career milestone: it’s an embodiment of coming full circle. The proud CSUB alumna earned her bachelor’s degree in 2011 and her masters in 2013 from the very department she now teaches in, sociology.
“It feels good,” Stowe said. “Because I know the expectations of the [sociology] department. I know what the rigor of the curriculum did for me as a student, and now I have the ability to teach it.”
Her academic journey represents what she proudly describes as a “full-circle” experience. Today, she stands at the front of the same classrooms where she once sat, teaching courses like Introduction to Research Methods, the same course Dr. Rhonda Dugan taught her as an undergraduate…