Name: Artifacts of Becoming: Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Higher Education Experience Across Identity, Place, and Time
Start: 2026-10-07T15:30:00-0400
End: 2026-10-07T16:30:00-0400

Artifacts of Becoming: Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Higher Education Experience Across Identity, Place, and Time

Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT

Lecture Hall

Doctoral scholars and graduates document their own becoming constantly, in objects carried, images made, and texts written across the margins of academic life. This panel brings together three scholars (present and alumni) from the NC State College of Education to present autoethnographic inquiries anchored in personal visual and material artifacts, each one a record of a journey that institutional measures of progress cannot fully capture.
The first presenter examines a charm necklace built incrementally across a doctoral journey, each charm marking a milestone, from conference presentations to completed semesters, analyzing it as an alternative literacy artifact and a wearable autoethnographic document of what counts as growth. The second presenter draws on his critical autoethnographic study of his experiences as a Black Ghanaian student-athlete navigating NCAA Division I athletics, centering visual and multimodal artifacts including photographs, Adinkra symbols, and scholarship appeal letters as primary data that honor African diasporic ways of knowing (Akogyeram, 2025). The third presenter reflects on personal journals kept across a migration from Puerto Rico to rural North Carolina, analyzing them as artifacts of linguistic, cultural, and geographic negotiation within doctoral education and her teaching profession that serves as the anchor of her dissertation.
Together, these presentations argue that graduate scholars are already documenting their experiences in ways that exceed institutional recognition, and that autoethnographic methods (Ellis et al., 2011; Chang, 2008) offer a framework for taking those documents seriously as knowledge. The panel connects directly to the conference theme by treating each artifact as an image that has traveled through time, accumulating meaning, memory, and identity across the shifting landscapes of higher education.

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Amber Moore

Doctoral student, North Carolina State University

Amber L. Moore is a doctoral candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, with a concentration in Literacy and English Language Arts, at North Carolina State University. Her research sits at the intersection of visual methodologies, embodied literacies, and alternative literacy... Read More →

Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram

Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University

Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, with a concentration in higher education opportunity, equity, and justice, and a student affairs professional in higher education. Originally from Ghana, Emmanuel brings... Read More →

Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Hawai`i, West O'ahu

Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo is a scholar, educator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of language, place, and social identity in multilingual education. María Heysha is an assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Hawai`i... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall

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