211 - Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Professional Workshop. Stratification in Academic Career Trajectories for Minority PhD Recipients

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This workshop session seeks to investigate and theorize the experiences of under-represented minorities (URMs), especially black and Hispanic scholars in sociology, as they vary by gender. A major purpose is to measure specific aspects of stratification processes that may create or re-create inequalities in the academic career trajectories of these groups. We emphasize two concepts that we have made operational to study the career trajectories of about 400 sociologists—the first is the career outcomes of these scholars and the second is their participation (or lack thereof) in largely white or diverse racial/ethnic worlds. Career outcomes include: 1) obtaining employment at a research-extensive university; 2) achieving tenure and the rank of associate professor within eight years of obtaining a PhD; and 3) attaining the rank of full professor within fourteen years of obtaining a PhD. The concept of “two worlds” (from W.E.B. DuBois) uses measures that reflect participation in a largely white academic world, a more diverse black or Hispanic academic world, or both. These measures include teaching at minority-serving institutions versus predominantly white institutions, teaching in racial/ethnic studies-oriented departments, publishing in racial/ethnic studies-oriented journals, and having participated in the certain ASA Sections or the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP).

Sub Unit

• Minority Fellowship Program

Session Organizers

• Roberta M. Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association

• Jean H. Shin, American Sociological Association

Co-Leaders

• Roberta M. Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association

• Jean H. Shin, American Sociological Association

Discussants

• Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson, Cal State Univ. Long Beach

• Willie Pearson, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Cheryl B. Leggon, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware