Do any other interdisciplinary researchers get mis-disciplined a lot? Like in an invisible kind of way (especially researchers of color/women). Here's a few examples... and I'd love thoughts on how to regain narrative control over my disciplinary identity 1/9

1) So my PhD is in math (though all my grad degrees are interdisc). I've never published a paper in which I've proved a theorem, unless you count the solo theorem in my dissertation. So by many math standards, I barely count. Haha, unintentional math pun - I do math jokes. 2/9

2) I was in a Biology dept as faculty for 8 years, but was told my students were eligible for research awards from the dept because they didn't collect their own data/use the scientific process. So that's actually what pushed me back into stats, model fitting, etc 3/9

3) Where I got my BA/MA, Stats was in the same dept and I was a TA for stats, took grad courses in stats. For my PhD, Stats was in the business school, but I still took a grad course from them and did my prelims and advanced core in probability. I currently teach an 4/9

Intro data science course and am now working on publishing more stats/computational stats based papers (with my equally talented multidisciplinary digital humanist colleague), but was in a convi saying there were no computational stats people in my dept. 5/9

4) I'm in an interdisciplinary CS-ish dept. Again, I've taken UG and graduate courses in comp science and in math courses in CS theory, like optimization. My doc research lab has projects in computational evolution. But I'll never be considered a computer scientist here? 6/9

5) The vast majority of grants and publications I have are DBER (both in bio and math). They range from natural philosophy to ethnography to SoTL to mixed methods Ed research. But I have only a few grad courses in higher education pedagogy...less than the other areas above. 7/9

So engaging with Ed researchers, particularly in math, they don't see me as an education researcher because I don't have a lot of the theoretical framing from formal training. Many Ed programs are K-12. Though the bio DBER community has been pretty awesome to me. 8/9

Here's my Q: How do other interdisciplinary folx (particularly women and folx of color) deal with these pretty macro aggressive invisibility of expertise that others bestow as part of some misunderstood designated identity. How do you explain/correct when it so complicated? 9/9

One more... I should declare that I think of myself as all of these things instead of none, but folx often other me away from whatever their is or ignore the others. 10/10