ASHE Papers & Presentations
At the annual Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas in November, I presented my first ever scholarly research papers through the RAISE Center. I co-presented 3 scholarly papers which will be submitted for publication in 2023:
Negotiating Femininity: Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women Navigating Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Sororities- (Pietro A. Sasso; Kimberly Rogers Davis; Penn State University, Shelley Price-Williams, University of Northern Iowa; Kim Bullington, Old Dominion University).
This phenomenological qualitative study explored how Queer-identified sorority women negotiated their multiple identities in heteronormative spaces. Women navigated internalized stigma, emphasized femininity, and masked their sexuality. These findings elucidate that Queer sorority women struggled to negotiate their sexual identities but affirmed their gender identities through sorority membership.
White Girl Wasted: Unapologetic Sorority Sexuality & Alcohol Use- (Pietro A. Sasso; Kim Bullington, Old Dominion University, Amber Manning-Ouellette, Oklahoma State University)
This phenomenological qualitative study explored how sorority women negotiated their identities within systems of hegemony with their student communities. Sorority members used women’s empowerment discourse to rationalize the ways in which they consumed alcohol, engaged in frequent consensual sexual relationships, and navigated gendered hegemonies within their campus sorority/fraternity communities.
The Academic Oratory Tax Paid By Speech Disfluent Undergraduate Student Leaders- (Pietro A. Sasso; Amelia-Marie K Altstadt, University of Nebraska Lincoln).
Students who experience speech disfluency exist in a liminal space in which they are academically adrift. Their existence is among educational accessibility supports and marginalized by ableist systems. This qualitative study of 10 undergraduate student leaders found that they pay an academic oratory tax to participate in higher education.
