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Leadership Development of Asian/American Women in Theological and Religious Studies
Proposal abstract :
We are a group of seven Asian/American women faculty: two senior facilitators and five early career participants. Each of the early career participants is the only early career Asian/American woman faculty in their institutions and/or departments. This intergenerational cluster aims to provide “conversation spaces, support, and networking” with a structured and systematic mentoring program. All of the participants also are active members of the Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM). PANAAWTM has been the most significant space for Asian/American feminist theological scholarship and leadership development in the last almost forty years. The current leadership is exercised by the “2nd” generation since the founding mothers are now being rotated off. Thus, this cluster will also aim at fostering the future leadership of PANAAWTM while intentionally focusing on intergenerational mentoring between Asian/feminist theological and religious studies scholars.
Learning Abstract :
Our goal is to begin a series of conversations with select topics that are relevant to early career colleagues. Such topics include:
● Identifying the specific elements of support participants need in their current career stages - developing sound relationships and a sense of community as peers and mentors for one another
● Strategizing tenure and promotion plans - understanding one's school's policy and procedure; working with a formal mentor assigned by the institution; finding an informal-ally mentor; putting together a strong dossier; identifying a potential list of external reviewers and developing relationships with them; balancing the participation in different guilds - disciplinary and affinity guilds; guild services and leadership development
● Writing and publication strategies - how to make a dissertation into a book; ins and outs of book publications; identifying fitting peer-reviewed journals and writing for them; finding one's writing voice and styles; connecting teaching and writing topics
● Developing teaching strategies - how to differentiate structural issues of the institution and racial dynamics from areas of my teaching enhancement?; how to establish teaching authority; identifying institutional resources for teaching enhancement as an opportunity to build relationships with institutional leaders; finding niches for scholarly interests and developing new courses
● Enhancing administrative abilities and opportunities in the academy and PANAAWTM - reading institutional contexts; navigating institutional bureaucracy, understanding and leveraging white institutional cultures; learning to choose volunteer opportunities to develop administrative opportunities
Cultivating Asian/American feminist leadership in theological academy and the church; What are Asian/American feminist ways of leading? Consensus-based decision-making process and
We are a group of seven Asian/American women faculty: two senior facilitators and five early career participants. Each of the early career participants is the only early career Asian/American woman faculty in their institutions and/or departments. This intergenerational cluster aims to provide “conversation spaces, support, and networking” with a structured and systematic mentoring program. All of the participants also are active members of the Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM). PANAAWTM has been the most significant space for Asian/American feminist theological scholarship and leadership development in the last almost forty years. The current leadership is exercised by the “2nd” generation since the founding mothers are now being rotated off. Thus, this cluster will also aim at fostering the future leadership of PANAAWTM while intentionally focusing on intergenerational mentoring between Asian/feminist theological and religious studies scholars.
Learning Abstract :
Our goal is to begin a series of conversations with select topics that are relevant to early career colleagues. Such topics include:
● Identifying the specific elements of support participants need in their current career stages - developing sound relationships and a sense of community as peers and mentors for one another
● Strategizing tenure and promotion plans - understanding one's school's policy and procedure; working with a formal mentor assigned by the institution; finding an informal-ally mentor; putting together a strong dossier; identifying a potential list of external reviewers and developing relationships with them; balancing the participation in different guilds - disciplinary and affinity guilds; guild services and leadership development
● Writing and publication strategies - how to make a dissertation into a book; ins and outs of book publications; identifying fitting peer-reviewed journals and writing for them; finding one's writing voice and styles; connecting teaching and writing topics
● Developing teaching strategies - how to differentiate structural issues of the institution and racial dynamics from areas of my teaching enhancement?; how to establish teaching authority; identifying institutional resources for teaching enhancement as an opportunity to build relationships with institutional leaders; finding niches for scholarly interests and developing new courses
● Enhancing administrative abilities and opportunities in the academy and PANAAWTM - reading institutional contexts; navigating institutional bureaucracy, understanding and leveraging white institutional cultures; learning to choose volunteer opportunities to develop administrative opportunities
Cultivating Asian/American feminist leadership in theological academy and the church; What are Asian/American feminist ways of leading? Consensus-based decision-making process and