Self-Created Safe Spaces: Forming Research and Writing Collaborations Among Female Faculty

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The culture of the academy is still predominantly White and male dominated, making it particularly difficult and in some instances hostile for female faculty, of all backgrounds, to navigate. In this panel symposium, three female faculty groups will share their experiences and the work that has resulted from their having formed supportive and collaborative research and writing teams/organizations to help them successfully navigate the academy in spite of such challenges. Thus, this interactive session seeks to spark candid dialogue and the exchange of ideas to support and formulate similar collaborations among female faculty, including white females and females of color, and other historically marginalized faculty communities within higher education.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching

Chair

• Melissa Ann Martinez, Texas State University

Papers

• We Are Stronger Together: The Story of Five Female Academics Who Formed a Research/Writing Team - Melissa Ann Martinez, Texas State University; Laura Jean Cortez, The University of Texas - Austin; Anjale DeVawn Welton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Collaborating for Success in the Academy: Being Fishers of Women - Whitney Sherman Newcomb, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Sisters of the Academy: Developing Scholarship Through Collaboration - Tamara Bertrand Jones, Florida State University; Dannielle Joy Davis, St. Louis University; LaTara D. Osborne-Lampkin, Florida State University