Chapter 2: Navigating the Academy: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities in Scholarship Through the Lens of an American Indian Scholar

This chapter explores the personal experiences of the author as an American Indian woman working as a faculty member at a research university. The author uses auto-ethnography to identify three conceptualized themes that inform her work: identity, mentorship, and research. These three themes are discussed as a catalyst for the ways in which research culture in the academy may shift in the twenty-first-century university.