A new anthology co-edited by GWSS alum Iris Viveros Avendaño (PhD, 2023) features stories from early-career transnational scholars navigating Western academia through the lens of their experiences as adult immigrants and international students from the Global South. Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges is now available from Routledge.
Co-edited with Roxana Chiappa Barros (University of Tarapacá, Chile), the volume brings together 14 contributors who draw on Indigenous epistemologies, women of color feminism, and decolonial theory to reflect on the knowledge systems they brought with them into academic life—and the ones they wish they’d known earlier. The book blends scholarly writing with poems, drawings, and letters to offer grounded insight on mentorship, belonging, and sustaining one’s practice across cultures and institutions.
Elizabeth Ramirez Arreola (PhD, 2022) also contributed a chapter to the collection. Like Iris, Elizabeth earned her doctorate in GWSS at the University of Washington and continues to be deeply engaged in transnational feminist research and advocacy.
The anthology is part of Routledge’s Insider Guides to Success in Academia series, which offers practical support to early-career researchers. Reviewer Catherine Manathunga praised the collection for providing “the relational space… to foreground the immense knowledge and wisdom First Nations and Southern academics bring to universities.”
More information about the book is available on Routledge’s website.