1st Edition
Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty Narratives that Humanize the Academy
Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty moves away from conventional faculty success books by providing early career faculty with innovative perspectives about successfully navigating the professoriate, while humanizing their lived experiences and naming the unspoken. Through the use of interdisciplinary methods, such as creative artistic expression, testimonios, and personal narratives, chapter authors share experiences learned about surviving, thriving, navigating, and succeeding as early career underrepresented and marginalized faculty. Chapters discuss issues such as navigating workplace hostility, finding community beyond the academy, work–life balance, and crafting a scholarly identity, while also offering little-known tips about how to survive the professoriate while growing into thriving minoritized and underrepresented scholars. This book explores personal and institutional factors that are seldom discussed in other career success books, helping faculty as well as institutional leaders understand how we can, individually and collectively, create systems that invite and recognize humanity while ensuring successful career pathways for marginalized folks with doctoral degrees.
Preface
Part I: Living in Liminal Spaces
Chapter 1: Disrupting and Reimagining Faculty Success
Sonja Ardoin & Roshaunda Breeden
Chapter 2: Defying Dual Alienation: Letters from Faculty who Identify as First-Generation College Graduates from Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds
Sonja Ardoin, Delma Ramos, & Jason K. Wallace
Chapter 3: Transforming the Professoriate by Leaning into the Liminality of Our Caregiver/Faculty Positionality
Aeriel A. Ashlee & Brittany M. Williams
Part II:Asserting and Validating Intersecting Marginalized Identities
Chapter 4: My Identity is My Strength
Amanda Cordova
Chapter 5: Our Mothers’ Daughters: Storytelling of Becoming in Cultural and Ancestral Onto -Epistemologies
Ericka Roland & Susana Hernández
Chapter 6: Listen to Your Sexto Sentido and the Wisdom of Your Community
Claudia García-Louis
Part III: Establishing Freedom Praxes of Love, Healing, and Imagining an Otherwise
Chapter 7: Homes are where the healing is
James Earl Davis, Sharon Fries-Britt, & Keon M. McGuire
Chapter 8: The Will of the People
Awilda Rodriguez
Part IV: Exploring Geographies of Space
Chapter 9: “When I think of Home…”: Building Community and Support for Faculty of Color at Historically White Institutions
Cameron C Beatty
Chapter 10: Claiming Space at the Intersection: A Professor’s Narrative of Navigating & [Re]claiming Space, Place, & Home Beyond the Walls of Academe
Jason K. Wallace
Chapter 11: Finding Space for Faculty Well-Being in Higher Education
Teniell L. Trolian
Part V: Arriving to Wholeness
Chapter 12: Good Grief
Z Nicolazzo
Chapter 13: Undisciplined: Untangling the Coloniality of Holistic Regard
Wilson K. Okello
Chapter 14: Keeping Pace: Reflections on Moving Toward Wholeness in Academia
Stephanie Hernandez Rivera & Tricia R. Shalka
Editor and Contributor Biographies
Index
Biography
Claudia García-Louis is Associate Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Texas San Antonio, USA.
Sonja Ardoin is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Clemson University, USA.
Tricia R. Shalka is Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Rochester, USA.
Keon M. McGuire is Associate Professor of Higher Education Opportunity, Equity, and Justice at North Carolina State University, USA.
Eugene T. Parker III is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Kansas, USA.
