Susan G. Bennett – författare

This book examines multiple aspects of mentoring relationships in academia through autoethnography and personal narratives. It emphasizes narratives from diverse populations, including first-generation college students, people of color, women, immigrants, those from intergenerational poverty, LGBTQIA2S+ people, and individuals with disabilities. The book identifies gaps in mentoring and offers strategies for closing them. It provides recommendations for potential mentees and discusses implications for professional development in academia.Key areas of coverage include:Sociocultural and historical contexts of academic mentoring relationships.Qualities that make a successful academic mentor.Mentoring marginalized individuals in academia.Benefits of actively seeking and establishing academic mentor relationships.Mentoring Relationships in Academia is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, graduate and undergraduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental and clinical psychology, social work, public health, human development and family studies, arts and humanities, social sciences, and educational leadership, and all related STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) disciplines.