2024 Social Justice in Education Award Lecture: Ain’t I an Academic? Ancestral Whisperings on Workplace Bullying

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Couched in ancestral knowledge, this lecture examines how workplace bullying hurts higher education for individuals and the institution itself. While all people can be targeted, people of color who tend to have the most diminished power are more susceptible to workplace aggression and institutional betrayal. Workplace bullying has many forms inclusive of the silent treatment, microaggressions, bad behavior in general. After examining bullying tactics and some of the stress-related outcomes for targets, the lecture concludes with strategies for coping and wellness when faced with a bully at work.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenter

• Leah P. Hollis, Pennsylvania State University