Scholarship & Reading

The intellectual
foundation.

This page is a window into what I am reading, what I have published, and who is shaping my thinking. It exists to educate — and to show you who I am before you decide to work with me.

My work

Published research

Book chapter With Robin Phelps-Ward

Pathways to the Professoriate: Sisterhood, Mentoring, and Resistance

Phelps-Ward, R., & Phelps, E. K. (2019). In Speaking From Within: Black Women in Higher Education. — Two sisters at different stages in the academy reflect on navigating and thriving within predominantly white high-research universities.

Journal article

Life Satisfaction Among Older-Adult, Long-Term Cancer Survivors: A Comparison of Black with White Survivors

Deimling, G. T., Phelps, E. K., Gilbert, M., & Ciaralli, S. (2019). Psycho-Oncology. — Examines the relative importance of cancer-related health factors for self-rated health and life satisfaction, with attention to racial differences.

Journal article

The Importance of Cancer-Related and Other Health Factors on Cognition Among Older-Adult Long-Term Survivors

Deimling, G. T., Phelps, E. K., et al. Case Western Reserve University, Department of Sociology. — Compares the effects of continuing cancer symptoms and comorbidities on functional difficulties and health quality of life.

Media study

Presentations and Representations of the Transgender Community in Digital Media

Phelps, E. K. — Case Western Reserve University. — A content analysis examining how mass media portrays transgender lived experiences and the gap between media narrative and reality.

What I'm reading

The texts that ground my practice

Black feminist theory & scholarship

  • Black Feminist ThoughtPatricia Hill Collins
  • Sister OutsiderAudre Lorde
  • Ain't I a Woman & Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centerbell hooks
  • Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of ColorKimberlé Crenshaw
  • A Black Feminist StatementCombahee River Collective
  • In Search of Our Mothers' GardensAlice Walker
  • Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's ActivismAlice Walker
  • Black Disability PoliticsSami Schalk
  • The 1619 Project: A New Origin StoryNikole Hannah-Jones
  • Feeding the Pipeline Toward the Doctorate & Talking Back in CyberspaceRobin Phelps-WardClose colleague & co-author

Embodiment, liberation & healing

  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Goodadrienne maree brown
  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worldsadrienne maree brown
  • The Body Is Not an ApologySonya Renee Taylor
  • Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine MammalsAlexis Pauline Gumbs
  • The Cancer JournalsAudre Lorde
  • Nasty WorkErica Hart
  • Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust SocietyDr. Arline T. Geronimus
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black AmericansHarriet A. Washington
  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and BodiesResmaa Menakem
  • Rest Is Resistance: A ManifestoTricia Hersey

"Black folks have been struggling and resisting on this land for at least 400 years. Our ancestors already started the work. Catch up." — Charlene A. Carruthers