Violence and Mentoring: Race, Gender, and Sexual Harassment

Building Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity into Graduate Student Coauthorship

“…Second, we recommend that faculty members are cognizant of the power dynamics in their relationship with graduate student coauthors (Behl 2020) and that they take steps to acquire knowledge on how to support coauthoring and encourage students to share ideas and ask questions along the way. Faculty members should treat student coauthors as equal participants by using collaboration as an opportunity to mentor them in scholarly publishing while recognizing that underrepresented students bring with them diverse perspectives, thereby improving scholarship.…”

Building and Sustaining an Academic Pipeline by the Sponsorship of Women of Color Political Scientists

“…Isolation, exclusion, and even outright hostility perpetrated by students, faculty, and administrators affect people of color throughout the entire student–faculty pipeline (Alexander-Floyd 2015; Argyle and Mendelberg 2020; Michelson and Lavariega Monforti 2021; Sampaio 2006; Smooth 2016; Willoughby-Herard 2019). Such widespread harassment and discrimination are detrimental to political scientists of color (Behl 2020; Brown 2019).…”

Climate Change? Designing and Implementing Climate Surveys to Promote Inclusivity in Political Science Departments

“…According to 2019 data, membership in the discipline’s flagship professional organization, the American Political Science Association (APSA), is substantially whiter and more male than the US population at large (Mealy 2019). A now-substantial body of research suggests that ineffective mentoring, leaky pipelines, high service burdens, and exclusionary social networks, as well as racism, sexism, and sexual harassment, all act as barriers for the incorporation of marginalized groups into the academy (Behl 2020; Garcia and Alfaro 2021). 1 Moreover, political science, like many other disciplines, faces a severe mental health crisis among graduate students, with women and minoritized students reporting higher levels of isolation than their white, male counterparts (Almasri, Read, and Vandeweerdt 2021).…”

“…service burdens, and exclusionary social networks, as well as racism, sexism, and sexual harassment, all act as barriers for the incorporation of marginalized groups into the academy (Behl 2020;Garcia and Alfaro 2021). 1 Moreover, political science, like many other disciplines, faces a severe mental health crisis among graduate students, with women and minoritized students reporting higher levels of isolation than their white, male counterparts (Almasri, Read, and Vandeweerdt 2021).…”