Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series: Highlights from Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, Mississippi Valley State University
Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden reflects on how the strong women in her family shaped who she is today. She is the Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs at Mississippi Valley State University, as well as the Executive Director of NCOBPS.
In this interview, Dr. Golden reflects on her upbringing, introduction to political science, and various challenges she faced in her career, and additionally shares advice for young scholars in the discipline. This interview was conducted by APSA’s Senior Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Strategic Initiatives, Kimberly Mealy, at the NCOBPS Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia, March 10, 2023.
What has bothered me a lot in in terms of political science in Black and Brown people is that other people can study us and write about us, and their scholarship is accepted and promoted, but our scholarship about ourselves… does not receive the same kind of audience.
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As part of an ongoing series examining contributions of Scholars of Color, the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a series of oral history interviews during the 2023 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection of interviews contributes to a continuous project that seeks to amplify the scholarship and contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the profession and investigate the history of race and racism in the political science profession. It further builds upon the APSA-Pi Sigma African American Alpha Oral History Project (1988-1994) and is motivated by the McClain Task Force on Systemic Inequality in the Discipline (2022). Each interview premiered at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA and will be shown at the 2024 NCOBPS Annual Meeting.