A Collective Counter-Story of Faculty Experiences to Humanize Asian Americans in Academe

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Faculty Issues 3 (Table 35)

Abstract

Asian Americans are often rendered invisible in social science research and higher education. In this study, four Asian American faculty, working at different stages of the tenure-track/tenured pipeline and regions of the United States, present scholarly personal narratives about their experiences in academe. Together, the narratives comprise a collective counterstory that resists the racialization of Asian Americans as a monolith within higher education. Thematic analyses of the individual narratives and patterns across them identify barriers to and supports for humanizing Asian Americans in educational research. The authors discuss these themes along with recommendations. Insights on structures and cultures that shape faculty experiences and development underscore how humanizing Asian Americans in educational research is critical for dismantling racial inequities in education.

Authors

• Grace MyHyun Kim, University of Texas at Austin

• North Cooc, University of Texas at Austin

• Kevin A. Gee, University of California - Davis

• Vivian Louie, Hunter College - CUNY