Molly J. Dingel is a sociologist and an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Rochester. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Kansas, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN in 2007. She engages sociology of education research, with special interest in student racial diversity and inequality in postsecondary education. She has also researched bioethical dimensions of new genetic and medical technologies.