What Makes a Scholar? Black Women Doctoral Students’ Understanding of their Scholar Identity

• In Event: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Five
  In Invited Roundtable: Research-in-Progress RT023 (Sunday)

Abstract

Faculty representation across higher education has not kept pace with increasing student diversity on college campuses. While research has focused on student pipeline and market industry factors as contributing to the underrepresentation of faculty of color and women faculty, an important intermediary perspective examines faculty representation from the lens of the doctoral education process, where students develop their scholar identity through a series of socialization factors and experiences. Race and gender can also play a role in these socialization processes, and by extension impact students’ post-PhD career choices. Thus, the focus of this qualitative study is to examine the role that socialization experiences related to scholar identity development can play in Black women doctoral students’ career decisions post degree completion.

Author

• Ulili R. Emore, University of Texas at Austin