1st Edition

Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty Narratives that Humanize the Academy

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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.