Dissertating during a pandemic : narratives of success from scholars of color

Dissertating During a Pandemic: Narratives of Success from Scholars of Color examines the experiences of doctoral students of color writing the dissertation currently and those who successfully defended their dissertation after the onset of COVID-19 and subsequent shutting down of college campuses i...

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Other Authors Goings, Ramon B. (Editor), Cupid, Sherella (Editor), Gardner, Montia (Editor), Tomlin, Antione D. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2022]
SeriesContemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806603534
DOI10.1108/9781648027871
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 165 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section i. Fostering identity as community
  • Chapter 1. Hoping against odds: Dissertating amidst a pandemic / Arpita Mandal
  • Chapter 2. You can finish this dissertation on your own, but you don't have to: Leveraging your community capital / Andréa Rodriguez
  • Chapter 3. Dissertating during a pandemic: Scholars of color share stories for success / Eric Jackson
  • Chapter 4. Working together apart: The role of black female cultural safe spaces in the midst of a pandemic / Iris Rodgers
  • Chapter 5. Sobrevivencia y aguante [surviving-thriving and withstanding]: Building resilience in graduate school during the COVID-19 era / Alpha Martínez-Suárez
  • Section ii. Loss, grief, and healing
  • Chapter 6. Uncertain and unpacking: How moving and rebuilding our home during COVID-19 led to reinventing my work / Michiko M. Kealoha
  • Chapter 7. Pandamnic: A working married mother's quest on writing her dissertation proposal during the times of COVID-19 / Tunisia Lumpkin
  • Chapter 8. Bent to the brink: Mothering, healing, and dissertating during the pandemic / Whitneé Garrett-Walker
  • Chapter 9. How to redefine and re-imagine success during your dissertation process / Nadika Paranamana
  • Section iii. Parenting and managing
  • Chapter 10. Managing intersecting identities while dissertating in place / Michelle C. Sermon
  • Chapter 11. Dissertating while mothering during a pandemic: Some tips for black and brown academic mamas / Nadejda I. Webb
  • Chapter 12. Single mom, abd / Patricia M. Virella
  • Section iv. Becoming phinished
  • Chapter 13. It just got real!: Dissertating under the tripartite pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-black racism, and the academic job market / Francena F. L. Turner
  • Chapter 14. It ain't over 'til you're done / Quantrilla Ard
  • Chapter 15. Dissertating while black: Precarities and possibilities during COVID-19 / Shawn S. Savage
  • Chapter 16. Identifying opportunities and making space: Increasing productivity during a pandemic / Tamela C. Thomas
  • Chapter 17. Dissertation as protest: Uplifting black experiences amidst of two global pandemics / Channing Mathews
  • Chapter 18. Writing amidst challenge: Tiny tasks, emotional residue, and quieting your inner critic / Rebeca Gamez. About the Editors. About the Contributors.