Parenting while PhDing surviving and improving the working conditions of graduate student parents / edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken ; foreword by Caroline Grant.

Other author Hoermann-Elliott, Jackie, 1989
Other author Morton-Aiken, Jenna
Other author Grant, Caroline, 1967
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
Descriptionxv, 373 pages 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents Foreword / Caroline Grant -- Change the conversation: an introduction / Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken -- Embrace the multiplicities: how internarrative identity theory transformed my PhD journey / Judith Chriqui Benchimol -- Leverage your assets: how parenting shapes (and benefits) our scholarly identities / Jennifer C. Judd, Whitney Zahar Rich, and Alicia C. Beretta -- Be your own advocate: prioritizing self as a pregnant PhD student / Elizabeth M. Williams -- This too shall pass: strategies for mothering while studying as a distance-learning graduate student / Elise A. Green -- Just be okay: a reflection on pandemic parenting, burnout, and healing / Emily Gresbrink -- Keep a labor log: analyzing master narratives about time and toxic work culture / Keith Jackson -- Send away the cucuy: one mom's journey through graduate school while battling false expectations / Karen Tellez-Trujillo -- Orale! Apply and earn tu degree: parenting while a (Chicana!) doctoral student / Dalel Serda -- Stay alive: a black mother's responsibility to ride grief's hills and live / Lisa E. Wright -- "A lot of us can swim": one queer student's advice for mentoring pregnant and parenting graduate students / Rachael Jordan -- Expect the unexpected: navigating the early dilemmas of becoming a graduate student parent / Laura Fitzwater Gonzalez -- Do have kids in graduate school: resisting chilly advice to and treatment of prospective parents in graduate school / Natasha Trace Robinson -- Send those damned emails: experiences and advice from my premature delivery / Tiffani K. Tijerina -- Don't divide yourself: building hybrid work practices to reconcile the competing identities of graduate student parents / Jennifer Burke Reifman -- Your body has other plans: finding support and forgiveness for morning sickness / Kathryn Lafferty-Danner -- "Go to f-cking Disney World": establishing a work-life balance and learning when to say no / James B. Harr, III -- Cobble together the village: securing childcare as graduate student parents / Calvin Olsen -- 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 -- Reframe the narrative: a conversation on navigating childcare in a PhD program / Camila Ring, Brita M. Thielen, and Hayley E. Verdi -- Know when to move: intentionally choosing when to share news of fostering with your committee / Aleashia Walton Valentin -- Find ways to shift: reimagining labor in the postpartum period amid the PhD / Courney Lund O'Neil -- Give yourself a break: juggling rugrats, experiencing regrets, and cultivating compassionate community / April Cobos, Daniel L. Hocutt, and Megan Mckittrick -- Create a toolkit: how we developed practices of care to survive as first-gen GTA parents / Danielle M. Koepke and Gitte Frandsen -- Juggle what matters: an autoethnography of a graduate student mom, educator, and caretaker / Celeste L. Graham -- You can be both: navigating complementary, not contradictory roles as a conservative Muslim mother and academic / Nabila Hijazi -- You don't have to keep going: reflections on navigating crises and precarity as an excluded scholar / Amie Mclean -- Know the problem isn't you: addressing systemic barriers for parents in PhD programs / Lourdes Fernandez, Jessica Mccaughey, and Rachael Graham Tin -- Question normative tropes: possibilities for queer parenting in graduate programs / Beth Buyserie -- Get rid of the gauntlet: redefining a scientist's parenting experience in academia / Kristin L. Osborne -- Push back: identifying and handling retaliation in order to stop a leaky pipeline / Siham Lekchiri and Barbara A.W. Eversole -- There's never a good time: navigating graduate medical education while pregnant / Stephanie L. Graff -- Things don't always go according to plan: navigating pregnancy loss and challenging the culture of silence as a PhD candidate / Mariya Tseptsura -- 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 -- It's not all sunshine and rainbows: mentoring graduate student parents in the writing center / Jennifer Phillips-Denny -- My place in the wolfpack: the importance of cultivating MyPacks and providing student parents with opportunities to belong / Jacqueline Cerda-Smith -- Race at your own pace: a story of how caregiving sometimes means changing lanes or start times in graduate school / Joan Jiyoung Hwang -- Lean on: planning for, insisting on, and accepting support / Sara Bartlett Large -- 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.
Abstract Featuring contributions from more than forty current and former graduate students raising children, Parenting While PhDing offers valuable advice for students and administrators. Parents will get practical recommendations on both child care and self-care, learning how to form supportive personal and professional networks while establishing a healthy work/life balance. The collection also offers thoughtful suggestions on how to make graduate programs less toxic and more inclusive. Recognizing that not all graduate students have similar backgrounds or needs, Parenting While PhDing features a diverse range of viewpoints, including queer, trans, disabled, BIPOC, immigrant, and first-generation college students. The authors represent a variety of disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities and health care professions. Together, they share fresh perspectives on the experiences of graduate students with children and offer strategies they can use to navigate the dual pressures of the academy and parenting.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2025936420
ISBN9781978843769 hardcover
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