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Isolated. Abused. Overworked.<\/p>\n

These are the themes that emerged when I invited nine Black women to chronicle their professional experiences and relationships with colleagues as they earned their Ph.D.s at a public university in the Midwest. I featured their writings in\u00a0the dissertation I wrote<\/a>\u00a0to get my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction.<\/p>\n

The women spoke of\u00a0being silenced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just the beating me down that is hard,\u201d one participant told me about constantly having her intelligence questioned. \u201cIt is the fact that it feels like I\u2019m villainized and made out to be the problem for trying to advocate for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women told me they did not feel like they belonged. They spoke of routinely being isolated by peers and potential mentors.<\/p>\n

One participant told me she felt that peer community, faculty mentorship and cultural affinity spaces were lacking.<\/p>\n

Because of the isolation, participants often felt that they were missing out on various opportunities, such as\u00a0funding and opportunities to get their work published<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Participants also discussed the ways they felt they were duped into taking on more than their fair share of work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized I had been tricked into handling a two- to four-person job entirely by myself,\u201d one participant said of her paid graduate position. \u201cThis happened just about a month before the pandemic occurred so it very quickly got swept under the rug.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why it matters<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The hostility that Black women face in higher education can be hazardous to their health. The women in my study told me they were struggling with depression, had thought about suicide and felt physically ill when they had to go to campus.<\/p>\n

Other studies have found similar outcomes. For instance, a 2020 study of 220 U.S. Black college women ages 18-48 found that even though being seen as a strong Black woman came with its benefits \u2013 such as being thought of as resilient, hardworking, independent and nurturing \u2013 it also came at a\u00a0cost to their mental and physical health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These kinds of experiences can take a toll on women\u2019s bodies and can result in\u00a0poor maternal health, cancer, shorter life expectancy<\/a>\u00a0and other symptoms that impair their ability to be well.<\/p>\n

I believe my research takes on greater urgency in light of the recent death of\u00a0Antoinette \u201cBonnie\u201d Candia-Bailey<\/a>, who was\u00a0vice president of student affairs<\/a>\u00a0at Lincoln University. Before she\u00a0died by suicide<\/a>, she reportedly wrote that she felt she was suffering abuse and that the university\u00a0wasn\u2019t taking her mental health concerns seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What other research is being done<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Several anthologies examine the negative experiences that Black women experience in academia. They include education scholars Venus Evans-Winters and Bettina Love\u2019s edited volume, \u201cBlack Feminism in Education<\/a>,\u201d which examines how Black women navigate what it means to be a scholar in a \u201cwhite supremacist patriarchal society.\u201d Gender and sexuality studies scholar\u00a0Stephanie Evans<\/a>\u00a0analyzes the barriers that Black women faced in accessing higher education from 1850 to 1954. In \u201cBlack Women, Ivory Tower<\/a>,\u201d African American studies professor Jasmine Harris recounts her own traumatic experiences in the world of higher education.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In addition to publishing the findings of my research study, I plan to continue exploring the depths of Black women\u2019s experiences in academia, expanding my research to include undergraduate students, as well as faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

I believe this research will strengthen this field of study and enable people who work in higher education to develop and implement more comprehensive solutions.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Ebony Aya is a Program Manager at the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching at Macalester College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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