In the Academy, But Not at the Table: Voices of Marginalized Faculty on the Tenure Track
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What happens when faculty are invited into the academy but denied a seat at the table?
In the Academy, But Not at the Table brings together the voices of marginalized faculty navigating the tenure track, exposing how institutions celebrate diversity while often withholding power, protection, belonging, and recognition.
This co-edited volume documents the lived experiences, structural barriers, institutional contradictions, and resistant knowledge of marginalized faculty in higher education. It is a book for scholars, graduate students, department chairs, deans, provosts, faculty developers, and anyone committed to building universities where representation is not mistaken for justice.
The academy has opened its doors. But who gets to belong, speak, lead, and stay?
Higher education often narrates itself as progressive, inclusive, and meritocratic. Yet many marginalized faculty experience the tenure track as a place of contradiction: visible enough to be counted, but not always protected; recruited for diversity, but burdened by invisible labor; praised for resilience, but punished for truth-telling.
Who is seated at the table, who is expected to serve it, and who is still waiting outside the room?
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