"I Know It to Be. I've Experienced It": Marginality and the Administration of Food Insecurity

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: The Role of Advocacy in Mitigating Marginality and Power in Leadership (Table 10)

Abstract

Over the past decade, scholarship on collegiate food insecurity has proliferated. However, very few studies focus specifically on the administrators who are tasked with addressing this pressing student problem. As such, the field is blind to the ways that the personal experiences of campus administrators might shape how they conceptualize and create solutions for hunger on campus. Thus, this qualitative, constructionist study was guided by the following question: What does college administrators’ management of food insecurity at competitive institutions reveal about their own experiences and identities of marginality? Our analysis shows how participants’ personal and proximate experiences of food insecurity, as well as their classed and racialized identities, shaped their conceptualizations of and responses to food insecurity at their institutions.

Authors

• Sarah E. Madsen, Baylor University
  Presenting Author

• Nathan F. Alleman, Baylor University
  Presenting Author

• Cara Cliburn Allen, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
  Presenting Author