Through conducting an ethnographic study about doctoral students from traditionally underrepresented groups who are learning to conduct ethnographic research, this volume offers unique insight into the challenges and experiences through which these students develop their skills and identities as qualitative researchers.

Char Ullman is Associate Professor of Sociocultural Foundations of Education and Educational Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Kate Mangelsdorf is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Jair Muñoz is Doctoral Student in the Teaching, Learning, and Culture program at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

1. Who Gets to Become a Professor?: Paving the Way for Diversity in the Academy.

2. Situating the Study: Conducting Ethnographic Research with Doctoral Students on the U.S.-Mexico Border

3. Belonging and Becoming: Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Participation in the Academy

4. Learning to Do Research: Acknowledging Researcher Positionality in Ethnographic Research

5. Building Identity as a Scholar and Researcher: Identity Work, Imposter Syndrome, and Belonging

6. Recognizing the Role of Self-Belief, Motivation, and Personal Sacrifice in Doctoral Students' Success

7. Being and Researching in a Third Space: Embracing Cultural, Linguistic, and Professional Hybridity

8. We Were Never Supposed to Be Here: Overcoming Resistance and Joining Communities of Practice

9. Learning and Not Learning to Become Qualitative Researchers