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“You can study video games?!” Dr. Kishonna Gray recalls asking this question of her officemate. Gray has become a recognized expert in digital cult...

For many people, having a powerful role model is crucial in establishing a successful career, especially in competitive fields such as law, the art...

A few years ago, I was on a walk around the neighborhood with my partner. As I huffed up yet another hill, I turned to him and asked, “Do you think...

Earlier this year, Franco Stevens , founder of Curve , the best-selling lesbian magazine, reacquired the publication and donated it to the recently...

It's 6:00 a.m., and even though my nine-month-old daughter, Lucy, drifted back to sleep after an early morning feeding, I am wide awake. My mind, f...

Recently, I re-watched Captain Marvel (2019) with my family. We're sort of Marvel nerds, and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) is one of our favorite su...

Summer is almost upon us, a time where we in higher education usually shift gears; faculty shift their attention to their research while staff take...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the fall of 2020, chatter and debate erupted on social media in the aftermath of research studies finding...

I made a mistake. Actually, I made two mistakes in the span of two weeks. These weren't the tiny everyday mistakes that happen with or without our ...

One of the hardest things we do in our professional lives is quit. This is my last piece as a regular columnist for Women in Higher Education . But...

A crisp, calm, foggy autumn night. A haunted, secluded castle sitting lonesome on a hilltop, overlooking a quaint little village. A dusty study sto...

A few months ago, I had a video call with a physician's assistant. I had called a bit frantically days before. I couldn't fall asleep at all or I w...

It seems improbable that a storied Black institution had not previously had an African American professor in its computer science and engineering d...

My initial introduction to imposter syndrome was through my work with first‐generation students. The more I learned about how imposter syndrome, of...

I'm angry. Again. I'm trying to answer the emails that overflow my inbox and convince a first grader to please for the love of all that is good and...

Necessity is often the mother of a creative invention. When COVID‐19 hit college classrooms in March 2020, faculty, administrators and students scr...

It was in the early weeks of the COVID‐19 lockdown that Charlotte stopped writing her dissertation. “Our family had been separated,” she says, “I l...

In the late afternoon on Jan. 6, an email landed in my inbox. I didn't notice it at first. My eyes had been glued to Twitter and various news sites...

The election of Howard University DC alumna Kamala Harris to the office of Vice President of the United States has put a spotlight on the historica...

A pandemic era is a difficult time for educators who have no interest in teaching in an online environment. My intention is not to persuade instruc...