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Dajanae Palmer
Assistant Professor of Qualitative Inquiry
University of Missouri-Columbia
Education/Degree:
1 Higher Education Higher Education (Indiana University)
About
Dajanae Palmer is an Assistant Professor of Qualitative Inquiry in the department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis. Dr. Palmer earned her PhD in Higher Education at Indiana University Bloomington. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Diego State University and her Master of Education in Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Palmer’s research interests are in examining and uplifting the experiences of graduate students, exploring feminist methodologies, and using critical theories to analyze the systems of domination in higher education. Dr. Palmer has experience working with Black women graduate students through her research with sista circle methodology, Black feminist thought, critical race feminism, critical qualitative inquiry and feminist methodologies.
Current Work
My scholarship centers on incorporating care into my research. I believe in changing the culture of graduate education and my scholarship is aligned with this goal. My upcoming project focuses on helping faculty learn how to serve on dissertation communities. From a perspective of Black women PhD holders with no Black women faculty on their committees. As faculty we often do what we saw modeled for us as students, no formal training on how to do all the aspects of being a professor especially not how to be a good committee member.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Black feminism, Graduate education, Black women, Feminist methodology, Critical qualitative inquiry