Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Jenna Morton-Aiken

Parenting While Phding

Surviving and Improving the Working Conditions of Graduate Student Parents
Herausgeber: Hoermann-Elliott, Jackie; Morton-Aiken, Jenna

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring contributions from more than forty current and former graduate students raising children, Parenting while PhDing features valuable advice for both students and graduate program administrators. Parents will gain practical recommendations on both childcare and self-care, and the collection as a whole offers thoughtful suggestions for transforming graduate programs into more inclusive, family-friendly environments.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978843769
• ISBN-10: 1978843763
• Artikelnr.: 71989038

Autorenporträt

JACKIE HOERMANN-ELLIOTT is an associate professor of English at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, where she serves as the director of first-year writing. She is the author of Running, Thinking, Writing: Embodied Cognition in Composition.   JENNA MORTON-AIKEN is a lecturer in English at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she serves as senior associate director for writing and English language support.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Caroline Grant
Change the Conversation: An Introduction, Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna
Morton-Aiken
 
Part 1: Stay Alive
Chapter 1: Embrace the Multiplicities: How Internarrative Identity Theory
Transformed My PhD Journey, Judith Chriqui Benchimol
Chapter 2: Leverage Your Assets: How Parenting Shapes (and Benefits) Our
Scholarly Identities, Jennifer C. Judd, Whitney Zahar Rich, and Alicia C.
Beretta
Chapter 3: Be Your Own Advocate: Prioritizing Self as a Pregnant PhD
Student, Elizabeth M. Williams
Chapter 4: This Too Shall Pass: Strategies for Mothering While Studying as
a Distance-Learning Graduate Student, Elise A. Green
Chapter 5: Just Be Okay: A Reflection on Pandemic Parenting, Burnout, and
Healing, Emily Gresbrink
Chapter 6: Speak Out: Dismantling Master Narratives and Toxic Work
Culture, Keith Jackson
Chapter 7: Send Away the Cucuy: One Mom’s Journey Through Graduate School
While Battling False Expectations, Karen Tellez-Trujillo
Chapter 8: Orale! Apply and Earn Tu Degree: Parenting While a (Chicana!)
Doctoral Student, Dalel Serda
Chapter 9: Stay Alive: A Black Mother’s Responsibility to Ride Grief’s
Hills and Live, Lisa E. Wright
 
Part 2: Your Body Has Other Plans
Chapter 10: “A Lot of Us Can Swim”: One Queer Student’s Advice for
Mentoring Pregnant and Parenting Graduate Students, Rachael Jordan
Chapter 11: Expect the Unexpected: Navigating the Early Dilemmas of
Becoming a Graduate Student Parent, Laura Fitzwater Gonzalez
Chapter 12: Do Have Kids in Graduate School: Resisting Chilly Advice and
Treatment in Graduate School for Prospective Parents, Natasha Trace
Robinson
Chapter 13: “Send Those Damned Emails”: Experiences and Advice from My
Premature Birth, Tiffani K. Tijerina
Chapter 14: Don’t Divide Yourself: Building Hybrid Work Practices to
Reconcile the Competing Identities of Graduate-Student Parents, Jennifer
Burke Reifman
Chapter 15: Your Body has Other Plans: Finding Support and Forgiveness for
Morning Sickness, Kathryn Lafferty-Danner
 
Part 3: Juggle What Matters
Chapter 16: “Go to F*cking Disney World”: Establishing a Work/Life Balance
and Learning When to Say “No”, James B. Harr, III
Chapter 17: Cobble Together the Village: Securing Childcare as Graduate
Student Parents, Calvin Olsen
Chapter 18: The World Won’t Pause: What to Expect When Co-Navigating the
Academic and Professional Job Market with a Newborn, Daniel Henke and Erin
Henke
Chapter 19: Reframe the Narrative: A Conversation on Navigating Childcare
in a PhD Program, Camila Ring, Brita Thielen, and Hayley Verdi
Chapter 20: Know When to Move: Intentionally Choosing When to Share News of
Fostering with Your Committee, Aleashia Walton Valentin
Chapter 21: Find Ways to Shift: Reimagining Labor in the Postpartum Period
Amidst the PhD, Courney Lund O’Neill
Chapter 22: Give Yourself a Break: Juggling Rugrats, Experiencing Regrets,
April Cobos, Daniel L. Hocutt, and Megan McKittrick
Chapter 23: Create a Toolkit: How we Developed Practices of Care to Survive
as First-Gen GTA Parents, Danielle M. Koepke and Gitte Frandsen
Chapter 24: Juggle What Matters: An Autoethnography of a Graduate Student
Mom, Educator, and Caretaker, Celeste L. Graham
 
Part 4: Push Back
Chapter 25: You Can be Both: Navigating Complementary not Contradictory
Roles as a Conservative Muslim Mother and Academic, Nabila Hijazi
Chapter 26: You Don’t have to Keep Going: Reflections on Navigating Crises
and Precarity as an Excluded Scholar, Amie McLean
Chapter 27: Know the Problem Isn’t You: Addressing Systemic Barriers for
Parents in PhD Programs, Lourdes Fernandez, Jessica McCaughey, and Rachael
Graham Lussos
Chapter 28: Question Normative Tropes: Possibilities for Queer Parenting in
Graduate Programs, Beth Buyserie
Chapter 29: Get Rid of the Gauntlet: Redefining a Scientist’s Parenting
Experience in Academia, Kristin L. Osborne
Chapter 30: Push Back: Identifying and Handling Retaliation in Order to
Stop A Leaky Pipeline, Siham Lekchiri and  Barbara A.W. Eversole
 
Part 5: Leave a Note
Chapter 31: There’s Never a Good Time: Navigating Graduate Medical
Education while Pregnant, Stephanie L. Graff, MD
Chapter 32: Things Don’t Always Go According to Plan: Navigating Pregnancy
Loss and Challenging the Culture of Silence as a PhD Candidate, Mariya
Tseptsura
Chapter 33: Investigate and Invest in Supportive Spaces: Doctoral Programs
that Accept and Enhance the Experiences of Graduate Student Parents, Morgan
Buchs, Rachel Flynn, Laura Leigh Menard, and Brandie Bohney
Chapter 34: It’s Not All Sunshine and Rainbows: Emotional Labor and
Mentoring in the Writing Center, Jennifer Phillips-Denny
Chapter 35: My Place in the Wolfpack: The Importance of Cultivating MyPacks
and Providing Student Parents with Opportunities to Belonging, Jacqueline
Cerda-Smith
Chapter 36: Race at Your Own Pace: A Story of How Caregiving Sometimes
Means Changing Lanes or Start Times in Graduate School, Joan Jiyoung Hwang
Chapter 37: Lean On: Planning for, Insisting On, and Accepting Support,
Sara Bartlett Large
Chapter 38: Leave a Note: Powering Through an Academic Job Market as a
Breastfeeding Mom, Danielle DeVasto
Closing Thoughts: From Survival to Self-Preservation, Jenna Morton-Aiken
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index