Areas of Research.
The College Experience.
Dr. Sasso explores multiple identity development (Abes & Jones, 2013) among traditional undergraduate students through student involvement and leadership experiences such as within fraternity and sororities. He also centers issues of compensatory and protest masculinities among college men through social constructivist and feminist poststructuralism lenses.
Student Success.
Dr. Sasso interrogates issues of student persistence and university retention drawn from a culturally-informed reconceptualization of Tinto’s Academic & Social Integration Model (Guiffrida, 2003). His work attempts to critique the fundamental attribution error of higher education through his pioneering metatheodel approach.
Educational Equity.
Dr. Sasso draws from critical multiracial theory (MultiCrit; Harris, 2016), intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1987, 1989), and Border Theory (Anzaldúa, 1987) to foreground liminality across different marginalized or historically underrepresented student populations within their co-curricular spaces. These include bridge programs, residential education, or transition programs.