{"id":354,"date":"2026-05-07T11:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/?page_id=354"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:53","slug":"dissertation-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/dissertation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dissertation <\/strong><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>\u201cStraddling Fences: Elite Academia, Graduate Education, and the Pursuit of Community\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project Summary<\/strong>: The dissertation focuses on how graduate and professional students from economically poor and working-class communities become interested in and later adjust to graduate and professional study, how they make sense of their status as graduate students while managing other identities, how they work to maintain familial bonds, and the adjustments and negotiations they make as these relationships change over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Research Questions:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the pathways to graduate\/professional school are for first-generation and working-class students?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the experiences of first-generation and working class students in graduate\/professional school? How do these experiences affect academic success and retention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do they find and cultivate communities that help them navigate the terrain of graduate\/professional study? Is finding community\/sense of community significant to their progress to the degree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does graduate\/professional education affect the relationships first-generation and working class people have with their families and communities of origin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dissertation Title: \u201cStraddling Fences: Elite Academia, Graduate Education, and the Pursuit of Community\u201d Project Summary: The dissertation focuses on how graduate and professional students from economically poor and working-class communities become interested in and later adjust to graduate and professional study, how they make sense of their status as graduate students while managing other identities, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/dissertation-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dissertation Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~adennis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}