Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

SPECIAL

Session 081: Navigating Existence as an Insurgent Scholar: Work, Engagement, and Activism
Room: Wilson Room

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico

Description: 

Panelists will share their experiences as insurgent scholars balancing: 1. the academic job market, as applicants and as search committee members; 2. promotional pathways; and 3. commitments to activism. We will also address the unique challenges of navigating academia as insurgent sociologists with intersecting minoritized identities; and those related to anti-DEI, anti-LGBTQIA+, and anti-reproductive justice legislation that has spurred outmigration of academics to more friendly environments to live and work. Panelists will discuss ways to overcome these obstacles. We invite attendees who are considering careers either within or outside of academia alongside those who are willing to share their experiences as scholar activists. Scholars seeking positions and those who wish to support early career insurgent social scientists are encouraged to attend.

Panelists:

Elroi J. Windsor, University of West Georgia

Tsedale Melaku, City University of New York

Evangela Q. Oates, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Brittany Battle, Wake Forest University

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