Sarah A. Coppersmith, PhD, serves higher education in teaching, research, and grant coordination, teaching graduate research methods, teacher education courses, and world geography. She has been a University of Missouri-St. Louis Inquiry Circles Fellow on global competency, is a selected Scholar in Residence, 2025, and serves the UMSL Geospatial Collaborative through the College of Education Geospatial Design Lab. She is a Certified Geospatial Educator, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, and has been honored with the 2024 Focus on Teaching and Technology, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award for Instruction.
Recent teaching includes Teacher Action Research and Honors spatial citizenship via geospatial technology. As co-editor of “Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators (Slapac & Coppersmith, 2019), she also serves the Editorial Board of the Geography Teacher journal. Her research includes examining global competencies, student agency, linguistically/culturally responsive teaching, transformative learning and GIS ambiguity tolerance. Additionally, projects include international research on online doctoral learning and a place-based geospatial examination of foodways in Missouri through a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Lewis-Houghton Initiative grant.
