What is it about?
During the onset of COVID-19, PhD students of color relied on their community cultural wealth to reprioritize their families, communities, and well-being when applying for faculty positions.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that PhD students of color use their cultural wealth to resit neoliberal expectations for them to leave their families and sacrifice their well-being to be competitive in the academic job market. Thus, graduate education leaders and practitioners should consider how to change their socialization processes in ways that better align with the cultural knowledge of PhD students of color.
Perspectives
This article is the third paper from a broader project where we studied racial capitalism in the professoriate. In this paper, we highlighted the complexity of working to become faculty amid a global crisis impacting families and the self. I hope this article helps graduate education leaders reconsider how they socialize PhD students of color.
Roman Liera
Montclair State University
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This page is a summary of: Reclaiming agency, navigating constraint: Experiences of PhD students of color on the academic job market at the height of COVID-19., Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, March 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000655.
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