D.I.V.A. Diaries

Cherrel Miller Dyce is Assistant Professor of Education and Faculty Fellow at The Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education at Elon University. Dr. Dyce received the Outstanding Mentor to Graduate Students Award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).Toni Milton Williams is Assistant Professor in the Instruction and Teacher Education Department at the University of South Carolina. Both received their doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

«The D.I.V.A.S. collective has re-conceived notions of powers held, and shared, by strong, scholarly, and unique women. This book challenges while it informs, combining feminism, well-being, and intellect within each chapter. A blend of narrative, research, and pedagogy, each chapter enlightens readers. The book is an artistic and rigorous presentation of qualitative research, auto-ethnography, and the aesthetic.» (Shirley R. Steinberg, Research Professor of Youth Studies, The University of Calgary)

• Contents: Cherrel Miller Dyce/Toni Milton Williams/Torry Reynold: Inception of the Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (DIVAS) Collective – Toni Milton Williams/Cherrel Miller Dyce: Meditations and Deliberations on DIVAS – Cherrel Miller Dyce: Standing in the Gap as the Academic Intercessor – Cynthia Brooks Wooten: Putting on the Garment of Theory: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t – Cynthia Thrasher Shamberger: Collaboration and Encouragement as Mile Markers: Running for the Prize of PhD – Cheryll Sibley-Albold: Black Wonder Woman: Demystifying the «Supernatural» Powers of the Black Female Doctoral Student – Toni Milton Williams: Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility – Dawn Nicole Hicks Tafari: Tales from a Hip-Hop DIVA: One Girl’s Journey from the Bronx to the PhD – Cherrel Miller Dyce/Toni Milton Williams: Transition - «Changing the Game»: The Role of Qualitative Narratives in Research and Knowledge Construction – Temeka L. Carter: The Liberatory Educator: Transforming Lives, One Student at a Time – Marrissa R. Dick: An African American Woman’s Continued Fight for a Pedagogical Education Inside of the Classroom – LaWanda M. Wallace: Present, but Not Present: The Personal and Educational Journey of a Doctoral Student Experiencing Deployment and Divorce – Kim Doggett Pemberton: Through the Fire: Marked, but Not Burned - A Doctoral Journey Transformed by Life’s Obstructions.