Personal Identity, Public Intellect: How Faculty Identities Influence and Inspire Public Scholarship

• In Event: It's Complicated: Faculty Identity in the Academy

Abstract

Sparse research has investigated how faculty are influenced and inspired to produce public scholarship, or, scholarship for audiences beyond academia. This study interviewed 14 tenured faculty members to explore these motivations. Findings suggest public scholarship is intimately tied to one’s identity, which also influences one’s research agenda. Implications for faculty socialization is addressed.

Authors

• M. Yvonne Taylor, University of Texas at Austin

• Zach Taylor, University of Southern Mississippi

• Joshua Childs, University of Texas at Austin