Published

Angelica Ruvalcaba, Madeline Nash, Jennifer Lai, Jihan Mohammed. 2020. "Reclaiming Space: The Narratives of Female Doctoral Students of Color." Women, Gender, and Families of Color  8(2): 194–202. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/793188


Introduction 

It is a strange time to be a student at our institution The widespread upheaval from the COVID-19 pandemic has only compounded the mistrust and low morale that emerged in the wake of a sex abuse scandal. Over the course of the trial, the university scrambled to reassure its students that it cared. Emails were sent, websites were updated, trainings were organized, administrators were mobilized. Yet what was never directly addressed was the fact that the scandal was “scandalous” precisely because it threw in sharp relief who was actually protected at our institution and who was not....