{"id":24769,"date":"2012-08-14T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24769"},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:48:38","slug":"ucsb-ph-d-alum-overcomes-odds-and-pays-back-with-history-grad-parent-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24769","title":{"rendered":"UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/gradpost.ucsb.edu\/headlines\/2012\/7\/20\/ucsb-phd-alum-overcomes-odds-and-pays-back-with-history-grad.html\" target=\"_blank\">UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gradpost.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UCSB GradPost<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<br \/>\n2012-07-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia Marroquin<\/strong>, Guest Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/people\/person.php?account_id=90\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly<\/a> believes strongly in paying back and paying forward. When she was a History Ph.D. student at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\">UCSB<\/a> just a few years ago, \u201cgraduate school was quite difficult for me. Not in terms of the intellectual rigors required but rather insofar as managing my life circumstances beyond school.\u201d Pursuing a graduate degree is bound to be difficult when you are a disabled Navy veteran taking oral chemotherapy for a rare bone-marrow disease developed during Persian Gulf War duty; a single woman carrying a child in a high-risk pregnancy; and surviving an abusive past.<\/p>\n<p>Financial awards she received from the History Department and History Associates, including a 2005 Donald Van Gelderen Memorial Fellowship, which recognizes nontraditional students who return to graduate study after pursuing career and family interests, allowed Ingrid to support her then-infant daughter, Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was incredibly difficult to make ends meet while meeting my degree requirements,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, earning my Ph.D. in History had become more than a mere personal goal. I realized that I was an example for other nontraditional students of color,\u201d continued Ingrid, who is of African-American and Irish descent. \u201cIn fact, today African Americans still constitute only 1% of all graduate school students at UCSB.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Ingrid, who is finishing the final edits on her forthcoming book, \u201cBy the Least Bit of Blood: The Allure of Blackness Among Mixed-Race Americans of African Descent, 1862-1935,\u201d discusses her experiences as a teacher, student, parent, philanthropist, and role model&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/gradpost.ucsb.edu\/headlines\/2012\/7\/20\/ucsb-phd-alum-overcomes-odds-and-pays-back-with-history-grad.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award UCSB GradPost University of California, Santa Barbara 2012-07-20 Patricia Marroquin, Guest Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly believes strongly in paying back and paying forward. When she was a History Ph.D. student at UCSB just a few years ago, \u201cgraduate school was quite difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,20,25],"tags":[347,11538,11539],"class_list":["post-24769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-ingrid-dineen-wimberly","tag-patricia-marroquin","tag-ucsb-gradpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}