my newest qualitative research highlights the beautiful human and more-than-human relationships that sustain Indigenous well-being for Native college women. I encourage all to consider the relational power of integrating space, place, people, and land.
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Sharing my new article w/@crystalegarcia.bsky.social & @drantonioduran.bsky.social in the Journal of Higher Education (50 free at link). We conducted a critical discourse analysis of the arguments used in several states for/against anti-DEI legislation in '23-24.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XRP9D...
This article was a labor of love, & I’m so glad it’s published! It’s OPEN ACCESS, so please feel free to download and share!
Article Link: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Literacies #EnglishEducation #Colonialism #TextSelection #Afrofuturism #AcademicSky #EduSky
Photo by Ethan Wong. Me at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
Purdue is trying to ban the student newspaper from using the university's name in its title and ending preferred campus access--in the name of institutional neutrality.
🎉🎉🎉 yay!
Excited to announce my book from #Routledge #TaylorandFrancis is available to pre-order! I received my copy today and am looking forward to folks reading about rural, poor and working-class students in higher ed and policy/practice to support their degree attainment!
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David Hawkins clearly lays out what many of us knew would follow SFFA decisions: use of segregationist logic to argue that any increase in student racial & ethnic diversity from pre-SFFA levels is evidence of illegal admissions practices. Effectively, benchmarking data to cap representation.
Yes please
I have a new AERA Open article on the prevalence and effects of differential tuition policies at public universities. About half of public universities have adopted differential tuition, but any benefits of increased completions disproportionately flow to White students. Check it out!
@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!
This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.
"MSU [Michigan State University] researchers, administrators cope with estimated $82 million lost in funding cuts - The State News"
An important read about the chaos brought on by the current administration for no discernible reason.
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This is a very compelling and interesting reading about the mutiple racial locations of multiracility and the ways in which it is informs leadership as a strengths-based asset. Much of this reflects my current and emerging research about multiracial students.
www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/arti...
“Harvard is leading the resistance”
Meanwhile the Harvard Black Alumni Society is asking Black alums to donate money to pay for what costs Harvard pocket change because Harvard ain’t resisting shit
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Garvey, J. C., Davis Simpfenderfer, A., Dolan, C. V., Lalwani, A., & Jackson, R. (2025). The Influence of Opportunity, Information, and Time on Queer and Trans Student Postsecondary Enrollment. The Journal of Higher Education, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2025.2488716
Important paper just dropped “The Influence of Opportunity, Information, and Time on Queer and Trans Student Postsecondary Enrollment” by @romeojackson.bsky.social & colleagues.
Check it out here:
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This is a great article from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social that he should not have needed to write.
I long for the day when race scholars don’t have to respond to people who have no clue what they are talking about, but nonetheless feel free to pontificate. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
The loss of ERIC is tragic and will negatively impact novice and emerging researchers. It will be harder for many of doctoral students to locate research.
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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New Jonathan Kahn dropping in June!!!! 🧪 #BookSky
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It’s been a challenge for sure, slow going, lots of follow up needed. I definitely feel the chilling effect of participating in the research I do.
“Values are only as good as their durability under pressure; and many of America’s largest companies proved an equitable, inclusive workplace was never one of their core values to begin with.”
*******New Publication Alert******
I am excited to share my newest article on the experiences of colleges students as Persons Who Stutter. This appears in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. We used crip theory to amplify their personal narratives.
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(1/3) Publication Announcement!
I am thrilled to share: "A systematic literature review on disabled queer and trans college student scholarship," co-authored with my mentors @drantonioduran.bsky.social and
Dr. Ryan Miller, now available in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
This looks great from @hschoenfeld.bsky.social, Chas Walker, and Marielis Rosa.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Text: The new vice provost, appointed by Columbia, will review curriculum, nontenure faculty hiring and leadership "to ensure the educational offerings are comprehensive and balanced."
We need a name for this person. The vice provost for authoritarian compliance?
Once again: They are not "rolling back DEI initiatives" they are capitulating to a segregationist agenda.