Research Seminar Series: Centering a Marginalized Student's Voice Through Autoethnography

Location: Virtual - Zoom Video Conference

All dates for this event occur in the past.

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Speaker

Julie Martin

Department of Engineering Education

The Ohio State University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carmen Zoom: https://osu.zoom.us/j/6626152439

Abstract:

This presentation is the story of two journeys. One journey is that of my co-researcher and co-author, Chavone Garza, who has navigated many challenges on her way to becoming an engineering student.The other journey is that of my growth over the course of collaborating with Chavone on a multi-year project. Together we have been working on an autoethnography manuscript that offers her equal power in how her lived experiences as a woman of color and an adult learner are represented. Our work has plunged me into new theoretical and methodological ground, all the while challenging me to further examine my own privilege. Both journeys are ongoing, and my presentation will highlight the non-linearity and “messiness” inherent in both.

Through audience participation, we will explore Chavone’s journey together and discuss how stories like Chavone’s could be used to challenge our institutions to move from merely accommodating students with varied lived experiences to being fundamentally inclusive of all students. I will invite audience members to share ideas about how seemingly small changes in their own work could begin this undertaking. I look forward to exploring these questions together.

Bio:

Julie P. Martin, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Engineering and Science Education at The Ohio State University. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.  Dr. Martin’s research agenda focuses on diversity and inclusion in engineering education. In particular, her NSF-funded CAREER work investigated how social relations—operationalized as social capital—influence student academic decisions and success, especially for underrepresented and underserved students.

Prior to her present position as associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at OSU, Dr. Martin served as Program Director for Engineering Education in the Directorate for Engineering, at the National Science Foundation from 2017-2019. Dr. Martin has held faculty appointments at Clemson University (2008-2019) and the University of Houston (2004-2008) where she was the Director of Recruitment and Retention for the Cullen College of Engineering. Since 2004, Dr. Martin has held a number of national leadership positions in both the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN), having served in the latter organization as national president (2009-2010). In recognition of her outstanding contributions to those organizations, Dr. Martin won the WEPAN distinguished service award in 2012, and she became a Fellow of ASEE in 2019. Dr. Martin received her undergraduate training in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1996 (summa cum laude) and her PhD in MSE from Virginia Tech in 2001.