BIO

I'm a second-year student from Winter Park, Florida, and am particularly interested in research that addresses social and structural inequality. In the future, I hope to work in politics.

Graduate Students' Construction of Professional Selves

Abstract

Society is evolving to break gender, racial, and sexual stereotypes, yet this does not dismiss the minorities who have lived their entire lives with these stereotypes being placed on them. Research has demonstrated that people from minorities have faced discrimination from the institutions that are meant to support our country such as schools and places of work. Schools have been flawed in shaping malleable students' mindsets on minorities from the elementary level to the college level. Previous research has neglected to take the nuances of intersectionality into account when conducting research. Our research team has conducted interviews with sociology graduate students to get their perspective on the discrimination towards themselves. We also look at how instructors have navigated conversations within the classroom to make them more conducive to recent political regulations. Gaining an in-depth look at these graduate students' perspectives has allowed us to understand how institutions push for information to be either concealed or exploited to benefit a certain political narrative. Given that the sample is made up of Florida residents, we also gain insight into the consequences of these learning restrictions and how they translate to a classroom setting.

Keywords: Education, Identity, Policy,