ALT AERA SIG Graduate & Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines 2023-2024 Dr. Dajanae Palmer Associate Professor Faculty Spotlight University of Missouri-Columbia “Dr. Palmer’s research interests are in examining and uplifting the experiences of graduate students, exploring feminist ​methodologies, and using critical theories to analyze the systems of domination in higher education. Dr. Palmer has experience working with Black women graduate students through her research with sista circle methodology, Black feminist thought, critical race feminism, and critical qualitative inquiry.”

ALT AERA SIG Graduate & Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines 2023-2024 Josh Wallace PhD Candidate Graduate Student Spotlight University of Wisconsin-Madison “My current work explores how Black men in graduate engineering programs exert agency within the dominant masculinities of the discipline. Studying graduate education is essential in part because graduate students serve as society's future faculty, executives, and many other valuable professions.”