APSA Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession Roundtable

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

This roundtable will discuss our research and activities related to First Generation Scholars in the Profession and bring focused attention to the ways in which class, economic inequality, and mobility can affect political scientists’ ability to thrive educationally and professionally, perhaps throughout their careers. This Committee adopts a broad, inclusive definition of First Generation Scholar (FGS) including those scholars who may have parents who have attained neither a bachelor’s nor an associate degree and/or may be international scholars who are the first generation to study and/or teaching at the college or university level in the United States.

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Cosponsor

• Status Committees / Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession

Chair

• Lorrie Frasure-Yokley

Presenters

• Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti California Lutheran University

• Pei-te Lien University of California Santa Barbara

• Ricardo Ramirez University of Notre Dame

• Tom K. Wong University of California, San Diego

• Francisco I. Pedraza University of California, Riverside

• Jenn M. Jackson University of Chicago

• Gabriela G Vitela Louisiana State University