Rebecca G. MartÍnez is an independent researcher and writer. Her research interests include reproductive health, Latin America, Chicanx studies, migration, and critical university studies.

Monica J. Casper is dean of arts and sciences and a professor of sociology at Seattle University. A First Gen scholar, she is the author of numerous books, essays, and articles and is also a creative writer.

Introduction
Monica J. Casper and Rebecca G. MartÍnez

1. Terca Pero No Pendeja
Amy Andrea Martinez

Part I. Betrayal

2. Pity the Nation—After Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Wang Ping

3. Reflections on Belonging and Betrayal from “One of Those Gender Studies People”
Taylor Marie Doherty

4. A Ton of Feathers: Betrayals in Academia
Susan Hillock

5. Vice-Chancellor Bliss-Simpson
Matthew Wills

6. Dirty Money and Deliberate Indebtedness
Jasmine Banks

7. Teaching Up: How My Dream Job Became a Nightmare
Celeste Atkins

8. Institutional Betrayal and the Role of Male Allies in Supporting Women in Higher Education
Meg A. Warren and Samit D. Bordoloi

Part II. Gender-Based Violence / Seexual Assault / Title IX

9. When I Naively Thought a Guilty Finding Meant We Won: Title IX and Institutional Betrayal in a PhD Program
Alanna Gillis

10. #MeTooUC: An Anthropological Account of the University of California’s Response to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment
Cierra Raine Sorin

11. What We Did with Institutional Betrayal: The Open Secrets Project on Faculty Sexual Violence in Canada
Connor Spencer, Chantelle Spicer, and Emily Rosser (Students for Consent Culture Canada)

Part III. Belonging

12. The Story of Ping—Living Through Mao and Trump
Wang Ping

13. Tracking the Academy: Experiencing My Projects of Belonging
Aparajita De

14. Xenophobia in the Academy: Who Gets a Seat at the Campus Roundtable?
Rashna Singh

15. Who Belongs in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies?
Kristina Gupta

16. Teaching While Brown: Understanding Latina Faculty Experiences in Higher Education
Mercedes Valadez and Alma Flores

17. Who Can Be a Scholar? Identity, Power, and Intellectual Labor in the Academy
Brandy L. Simula and Jessica Bishop-Royse

18. Mapping Place and Constructing Space: How Black Students Respond to Non-Belonging at a PWI
Jasmine Harris

Part IV. Disability / Health / (Non)Normative Bodies

19. Disability (In)Justice: Disabled Scholars in an Ableist World
Rachael McCollum and Krista L. Benson

20. Audre Lorde’s Army of One-Breasted Women
Sara A. Mata

21. Un/Due Hardship and Class(Room) Struggles: Pedagogies and Procedures of Accommodation
C. Goldberg

22. Is It Just Me? Mental Health and Institutional Perspectives from a Graduate Writing Consultant
Doreen Hsu

Part V. Resistance and Resilience

23. I Am Not Just a Body but Also a Soul: The Power of Erasure Amidst Hypervisibility on a Faculty Search Committee
Jennifer M. GÓmez

24. Institutional Compassion: Counterstories to Betrayal in Sociology
Jennifer Lai and AngÉlica Ruvalcaba

25. Out of the Shadows
Kathy Diehl

26. La Llorona of the Academy
Shantel Martinez

27. Becoming a Problem
James M. Thomas (JT)

Afterword. Institutional Violence, Complaints, and Betrayals: Behind Closed Doors
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt