Dartmouth Events

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Political Sciences

This workshop aims to enhance the discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in academia by using political science theories and methodologies.

Thursday, February 16, 2023
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Moore Hall B03
Intended Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoc
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This workshop aims to enhance the discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in academia by using political science theories and methodologies. The workshop features two round tables, each including guest speakers: Pilar Clealand (The University of Texas-Austin) and Seo-young Silvia Kim (American University). The first panel discusses the ambiguity of race and ethnic identification and categorization and its potential consequences in the discussion of DEI. If many DEI policies and debates focus on the inclusion of historically marginalized racial and ethnic group members, what does it mean to the DEI discussion that many people have multiple and/or ambiguous racial and ethnic identification? To answer this question, Amanda Sahar d’Urso will discuss the consequences of Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) being categorized as White in college admission and staff and faculty hiring and retention. Moreover, Danielle Pilar Clealand will also discuss how Blackness within Latino communities impacts the discussion on DEI. The second panel examines the roles of international status and subfields in the discussion of DEI. If political science, as any academic discipline, is an international professional society, how should we account for international students and scholars (who may or may not belong to historically marginalized groups in the U.S.) when discussing DEI in the profession? Seo-young Silvia Kim will answer this question by studying the hidden costs for international students and scholars to thrive in U.S.-based academic communities. Furthermore, what does it mean to the debate of DEI that some subfields have overwhelmingly more scholars of underrepresented minorities (URM) than other subfields? To answer this question, Yuki Atsusaka and Seo-young Silvia Kim analyze the official membership data from the American Political Science Association (APSA) and examine the status and consequences of skewed distributions of scholars of different groups across subfields and professional societies within political science. Finally, the workshop concludes by summarizing how political scientists can use their research to study and enhance DEI in their professional fields.

For more information, contact:
Miya Wickramasinghe

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.