Full Description
This edited volume comprises a compilation of autoethnographic evocations from U.S. doctoral students in the fields of social sciences and humanities, who narrate and analyze their experiences in the doctoral journey and beyond. Through 11 select contributions, the book examines the intersections and shifting roles of the personal and the community in the doctoral student journey, illustrating the complex and unique nature of pursuing a doctoral degree. Part 1, Curating the Self, includes five autoethnographic accounts that speak directly to the personal challenges and transformations experienced in the doctoral journey. Part 2, Embracing the Community, includes six autoethnographic accounts illustrating supportive communities' life-changing power during the doctoral journey.
Contributors are: Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez, Ahmad A. Alharthi, Afiya Armstrong, Nick Bardo, Caitlin Beare, Rebecca Borowski, Anya Ezhevskaya, Christopher Fornaro, Melinda Harrison, Linda Helmick, Joanelle Morales, Olya Perevalova, Alexis Saba, Kimberly Sterin, Katrina Struloeff, Rebecca L. Thacker, Lisa D. Wood, Erin H. York, Christel Young and Nara Yun.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ethan Trinh and Bedrettin Yazan
PART 1: Curating the Self
1 Navigating Queer and Latinx Identities throughout My Doctoral Program Journey
Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez
2 I'm Going Back to School: A Fortysomething-Year-Old Urban Appalachian and the Academy
Rebecca L. Thacker
3 Two Birds, One Queer Body, All Negotiation: An Autoethnography on the Pursuit of Dual Terminal Degrees
Erin H. York
4 Asset, Not Deficit: The Growth Mindset of a First-Generation Doctoral Candidate
Melinda Harrison
5 Digging up Bones: A Duoethnography about Marriage, Parenting, and Doctoral Study
Nick Bardo and Joanelle Morales
PART 2: Embracing the Community
6 Sailing out of the Drift: A Duoethnographic Study of an Empowered Partnership
Lisa D. Wood and Nara Yun
7 The Balancing Act: A Duoethnographic Study of How Two Strangers Helped Each Other Hold It Together through the Doctoral Process
Afiya Armstrong and Christel Young
8 Tensions in Transition: Visual Collaborative Autoethnography as Analysis of and Healing from the Academic Job Market
Linda Helmick, Rebecca Borowski and Alexis Saba
9 Between Writing and Tutoring: A Duoethnographic Perspective
Ahmad A. Alharthi and Caitlin Beare
10 Resisting Neoliberal Norms through a Pedagogy of Care: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Three Doctoral Students' Comprehensive Exams Experience
Kimberly Sterin, Katrina Struloeff and Christopher Fornaro
11 Channeling the Inner Astronaut: Exploring Peer Relationships in Online Doctoral Programs
Olya Perevalova and Anya Ezhevskaya
Final Thoughts
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ethan Trinh and Bedrettin Yazan
