ABSTRACT
Written as a counter narrative, this chapter portrays one Latina's path through graduate education, highlighting, in particular, how doctoral studies and academia, more broadly, imbued within her doubt. Opening with a short, but illustrative, vignette, she shares some of the ways academia subtly infiltrated her self-confidence. She goes on to speak about her disillusionment with academia's inertia amid its lingering suspicion of change. However, at its core, her story is one of coming to confront academia's deeply held investments and, more so, to understand doubt as its own brand education. Indeed, this chapter reveals how doubt can be a powerful form a resistance and a means of resilience, as one Latina learned to ask, what if I doubted them too?
