Dr. Vilna Bashi Treitler is a sociologist and visual artist, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the 2020 recipient of the Cox-Johnson-Frasier award bestowed by the American Sociological Association for scholarship in service to social justice.

Her book, The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions, a comparative historical analysis of US ethnic groups’ racialization, was honored by inclusion in the Zora Canon, a list of the best 100 books written by an African American woman. Bashi Treitler’s scholarship theorizes about the dynamics and hierarchies involved in socioeconomic processes like nation, race, ethnicity, and migration.

Dr. Treitler is completing a memoir, Schooled, about her lifetime engagement with learning and higher education. She knows all about surviving the academy as a member of several "minoritized" groups: she's a child of immigrants, first in her family to go to college and graduate school, and a black woman to boot. She also struggles with introversion and other social challenges; the academy certainly stigmatized open discussions about mental health.

How can we honor our personal and professional needs, mentor or care for those around us, and value grace, ethics, and intellect while working in institutions that seem to only measure academic products when evaluating our worth? Let's talk and see if we can find some answers.

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