Tedious Journeys - Autoethnography by Women of Color in Academe

The Editors : Cynthia Cole Robinson is Associate Professor of Education at Purdue University Calumet where she also serves as Chair of the Elementary Education Program. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of From the Classroom to the Corner : Female Dropouts' Reflections on Their School Years (Lang, 2007). Her areas of interest include social justice, urban education and race, class, and gender studies.
Pauline Clardy is Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Illinois State University, where she also serves as Coordinator of the Bilingual Education Program. She earned a Ph.D. in curriculum design, an M.Ed. in instructional leadership, and a B.A. from the University of Illinois. Her research interests include qualitative studies that focus on the education of linguistic and cultural minorities.
She has presented her work nationally and internationally.