Research Dangerously: A Scholarship of Consequence and Pushing Barriers in Educational Research and Praxis

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This interactive symposium will engage attendees in a critical conversation about doing ‘dangerous research’ in higher education and student affairs contexts. Many scholars who seek to push boundaries and remove barriers toward more equitable and just outcomes for criminalized/stigmatized students and political issues find there are significant challenges and barriers to that work. To be clear, the individuals and issues at the core of our inquiry and work are not what is dangerous, rather dangerous research in this context means a work of consequence as we invoke Danticat’s (2010) Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Central topics include Students and Sex Work, Students and HIV/AIDS, Gang-Involved Students, Sexual Violence/Title IX, and Incarcerated Students.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education

Chair

• Roshaunda L. Breeden, East Carolina University

Papers

• Vicarious Violence: Hurdles and Hinderances to Research on College Student Sex Workers and Erotic Laborers - Terah J. Stewart, Iowa State University

• How the Politicization of Campus Sexual Violence Fuels Risks and Danger of Scholarly Work - Sarah S Hurtado, University of Denver

• The Battle to Render Black Women Visible in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Continues - Brittany M. Williams, University of Vermont

• Higher Education as a Turning Point in the Lives of Former Gang-Involved Individuals: A Qualitative Analysis - Adrian H. Huerta, University of Southern California

• Higher Education Justice for Incarcerated Students - Erin Corbett, Second Chance Educational Alliance, Inc.

Discussant

• Christa J. Porter, Kent State University