Black and Latina Women Doctoral Students Mattering in Higher Education: A Case Study

• In Event: Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education: Women and Girls of Color

Abstract

Faculty relationships have been documented as an important factor in the inclusion and academic development of doctoral students. Within the community of minoritized women doctoral students feelings of marginality and mattering—or the lack thereof—are common. In the qualitative case study we use Schlossberg’s (1989) theory of mattering and marginality examine the ways that Black women doctoral students experience marginality and mattering in a professional development program centered on race and gender.

Authors

• Sherrina S Lofton, Florida State University

• Tamara Bertrand Jones, Florida State University

• O'Juan Edwards, Florida State University

• Jesse Randall Ford, University of North Carolina - Greensboro

• Adrianne Jackson, Florida State University

• Brittany Brewster, Florida State University

• Shawna Patterson-Stephens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign