Listen. Rate, review, and subscribe! 2021 has been a rough start for the PhDivas. Liz and Xine recorded this in the week after the white supremacist insurrection at the US Capitol — and then somehow we had to go about academic ‘business as usual.’ So here the PhDivas discuss the conflicts between our exhaustion, our…
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E5E18 | The Good, the Bad, the COVID-19: Winding Down and Burning Out
Listen here. Subscribe! Rate and review! PhDivas Dr. Xine Yao and Dr. Liz Wayne get together over American Thanksgiving to talk about the challenges of working during COVID19. Supporting our own self care as we support our students, or research efforts is no trivial feat. All the best as the term and the year are…
S5E17 | The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zoo Archaeology w Alex Fitzpatrick
Listen. Rate, review, subscribe! “This belongs in a museum!” Indiana Jones’s catchphrase inspired generations of young archaeologists like Alex Fitzpatrick who are now critical of their discipline’s colonial and imperialist pasts and presents. In this second part of their interview, PhDiva Xine chats with Alex about Napoleon’s influence and approaching archaeology through animals, rather than…
S3E16 | Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic ft. Archaeologist Alex Fitzpatrick
Listen. Rate, review, and subscribe! Handing in your PhD dissertation and disrupting the field of archaeology is exhausting enough… but during a global pandemic? Archaeologist Alex Fitzpatrick talks to PhDiva Xine on the cusp of earning her degree about precarity, post-dissertation depression, and the strangeness of a Chinese diasporic migrant in the United Kingdom. Twitter…
S5E15 | Degrees of Difference: WOC Graduate Experiences with Denise Delgado & Kim McKee
Listen. Subscribe! Imagine an interdisciplinary volume collecting advice and experiences of women of colour in graduate school. PhDiva Xine discusses Degrees of Difference with co-editors Denise Delgado and Kimberly McKee (Grand Valley State University). The project grew out of their friendships during their PhDs at Ohio State: other related collaborations include a conference roundtable and…
S5E14 | Disability Activism & Access in Academia: Divya Persaud & Ellie Armstrong
Listen here. Subscribe! COVID-19 presents new challenges and possibilities for disabled students. Thousands signed an open letter asking grant agencies to automatically extend student funding and for grants for assistive equipment needed to work remotely. Conversely, many shifts to coronavirus teaching are only too familiar to disabled people who have long been advocating for change….
S5E13 | Space Science, Space Colonialism: Ellie Armstrong & Divya Persaud on #SSiC2020
Listen. Subscribe and review! “To boldly go to where no man has gone before” — the classic Star Trek slogan reflects how colonialism informs space exploration. NASA’s technologies are the same used for American imperialist ventures today. Even space rocks in museums are procured because of British colonialism. Planetary scientist Divya Persaud and STS scholar…
S5E12 | COVID-19 Care-Work for Academic Families & Singles with Professor Charissa Cheah
Listen. Subscribe! Some of us have additional care responsibilities at home. Some of us are all alone at home. How do we care for ourselves and each other during lockdown? In this second part of our interview, Professor Charissa Cheah draws upon her expertise in psychology to talk about managing child care and the paradoxes…
S5E11 | Cells and Society at Work: Biomedical & Biopolitical Takes on Immunity
Listen. Subscribe! Why do we talk about our immune systems using the language of warfare? Let’s discuss immunity from two perspectives that may seem very different: biomedical engineering and biopolitics. In this episode PhDivas Liz and Xine educate each other about their disciplinary knowledge of what “immunity” means. Cells at Work! is a recent anime…
S5E10 | COVID-19 Anti-Asian & Anti-Black Racism with Professor Charissa Cheah
Listen. Rate, review, subscribe! Who is seen as the disease or the diseased? Psychologist Charissa Cheah received RAPID grant funding from the National Science Foundation to study the forms of anti-Chinese racism from COVID-19 and their impact on Chinese-American individuals, families, and communities. PhDivas Liz and Xine discuss with Professor Cheah the politics and histories…
