Dr. Soluri was most recently Tenured Faculty in the Anthropology Department at Cabrillo College, a community college based in Aptos, California. She has also taught in additional community college districts in California and at UC Berkeley. She is an award-winning educator with experience teaching in multiple modalities. Dr. Soluri has served in collegewide leadership, where she worked to bolster student success and equity via policy guidance, and she continues to work as a thought partner for equity-driven policy work in higher education. Her research has focused on effective pedagogy in biological anthropology, particularly at the introductory level. She has led educational development workshops on accessibility and equity and facilitated a Community of Practice focused on online course design. Dr. Soluri is a strong advocate for the use of antiracist and decolonizing frameworks and active, cooperative, and project-based pedagogies. She is co-author, with Dr. Sabrina C. Agarwal, of an introductory bioanthropology laboratory manual that is grounded in these principles.
Her ongoing work centers on bioanthropology, pedagogy, and educational development.
