by Douglas Brunton | Feb 6, 2017 | Student Voices
As much as we would like to think that we live in a post-racial world as apparently evidenced by the election and re-election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, the sad reality is that in most settings the overt racism of the past has been subtly...
by Douglas Brunton | Apr 10, 2015 | Student Voices
The following is a transcript of a Gmail chat between Douglas, a student blogger and Ph.D. Student in Communication Studies and Natalie Bartolacci, Academic Program Officer at Rackham Graduate School. Natalie: Hi Douglas! You are in your first year as a Ph.D. student,...
by Douglas Brunton | Mar 5, 2015 | Student Voices
There are things that you think you know and life has a way of shattering that illusion. One of the things that I thought I knew was how to move to a new country and negotiate the intricacies of getting up and running and most significantly, getting comfortable –...
by Douglas Brunton | Dec 23, 2014 | Student Voices
So, proud that I’ve survived the first semester in my program, I can now admit that there were times that Impostor Syndrome had me doubting both my place and my purpose in working toward a Ph.D. The last time I asked myself the question ‘Why am I here?’ this is what I...
by Douglas Brunton | Aug 13, 2014 | Student Voices
I am a Caribbean. I have always been the ‘Other’ a different point of view, not a differing one. This is not an assumed role but rather, one inherited. Being multiracial in a multiracial society one does not ‘fit’. If one is the multiracial offspring of multiracial...
