Blackness and Being: How Four Black Women Doctorates Shape Public HBCU Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Each of these four women approached their dissertation research with a focus on how their work can improve educational outcomes for Black communities. Whether they were researching Black college access practitioners in rural communities, amongst Black women teachers during a global pandemic, in partnership with Black undergraduate pre-service teachers understanding their own definitions of success, or how Black women at a southern HBCU experience and construct Black womanhood through their experiences. Although the women in this symposium have served in differing roles from leadership to graduate fellows, they have all contributed to the way that HBCU Effect research has taken shape over the last few years.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Keeley Copridge, Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute

Papers

• Centering Wellness in Research - Danie Marshall, Georgia State University

• Theorizing and Realizing: Student Success Practitioners in Black, Rural Communities - Kamia F Slaughter, Indiana University

• Black Women Being: Using Black Intellectual Theorizing to Collaboratively Shape the HBCU Effect Research - Natasha K. McClendon, Spelman College

Discussant

• Nadrea Njoku, Escend