We have curated playlists of our 50+ episodes for easy navigation by topic.
Academic Advice | Interviews | Activism and Critique |
The Scholar as Human | Cultural Commentary
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Academic Advice
The PhDivas give advice on every stage of the academic career and on the joys and struggles of academic life.
S03E12 | New Year’s Resolutions 2017
S03E04 | The Final Countdown: Getting Ready for the Final PhD Years
S03E01 | Why You Should Postdoc: Interview with Dr. Catharine Young
S02E13 | Writing for the Public: Alt-Ac Interview with Meredith Talusan
S02E12 | The Adviser’s Point-of-View: Interview with Professor Shirley Samuels
S02E07 | Imposter Syndrome & Other Anxieties
S02E06 | Imposter Syndrome – Teaser
S02E03 | The Trap Of Overachievement
S02E02 | Spring Renewal — and Rejection
S01E25 | Leave Of Absence: On Loss and Healing
S01E17 | What Counts as Evidence?
S01E16 | Advice for Early Graduate Students
S01E13 | #Academic Anxiety: The Job Market (Interview with Dr. Nadia Chernyak)
S01E10 | Liz Brings Xine To A Lab
S01E11 | Xine Brings Liz To The Mutter Museum
Interviews
Featuring interviews with talented and accomplished women within and outside the academy about their research, teaching, work, and lives.
S03E13 | Hip Hop Scholarship: Interview with Dr. Shahara’Tova V. Dente
S03E10 | Dark Matter: Axions Cosmology & Being a Black Scientist; Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
S03E09 | Data is Us: Interview with Rumman Chowdhury
S03E06 | Mighty Morphing: Interview with Sammus
S03E05 | Adjunct Life with Dr. Shyla Saltzman
S03E03 | Science + Art = Super Cool Scientists! Interview with Sara MacSorley
S03E01 | Why You Should Postdoc: Interview with Dr. Catharine Young
S02E13 | Writing for the Public: Alt-Ac Interview with Meredith Talusan
S02E12 | The Adviser’s Point-of-View: Interview with Professor Shirley Samuels
S02E11 | Being a Woke White Guy: Interview with Phil Burnham
S02E10 | Inside Higher Education: Interview with Erica Ostermann
S02E05 | International Students: The Silent Majority (Interview with Dr. Michelle Tong)
S02E04 | Black Girl Humor: Interview with Dr. Danielle Morgan
S02E01 | It Happens Here: Sexual Assault in Academia (Interview with Anna Waymack)
S01E27 | Are Grad Students Workers? Interview with Jack Frost
S01E13 | #Academic Anxiety: The Job Market (Interview with Dr. Nadia Chernyak)
S01E12 | Studying What You Love: Interview with PhDiva Dr. Shyla Foster
Activism and Critique
We are committed to making academia a better place at every level. This series explores different dimensions of activism and critique in higher education.
S03E14 | Being Petty in the Trump Era
S03E05 | Adjunct Life with Dr. Shyla Saltzman
S02E10 | Inside Higher Education: Interview with Erica Ostermann
S03E08 | Teaching While Women of Color: Part 1
S02E09 | Teaching While Women of Color: Part 2
S02E05 | International Students: The Silent Majority (Interview with Dr. Michelle Tong)
S02E01 | It Happens Here: Sexual Assault in Academia (Interview with Anna Waymack)
S01E28 | Friendship as Activism: Keynote
S01E27 | Are Grad Students Workers? Interview with Jack Frost
S01E05 | Can We Be Academics AND Activists?
The Scholar as Human
We are more than brains on sticks. This playlist features both light-hearted and serious discussions about the personal side of being academics and the behind-the-scenes of the podcast.
S03E12 | New Year’s Resolutions 2017
S02 Special Episode | Graduation!
S02E07 | Imposter Syndrome & Other Anxieties
S02E06 | Imposter Syndrome – Teaser
S02E03 | The Trap Of Overachievement
S02E02 | Spring Renewal — and Rejection
S01E26 | Xine Does the Vagina Monologues
S01E25 | Leave Of Absence: On Loss and Healing
S01E22 | Makeup and Consumerism
S01E19 | 2-Body Problems & Padawans
PhDivasFootnote – Liz Defends her PhD
S01E09 | Introducing PhDiva Liz
S01E08 | And…. We’re Are Back!
Cultural Commentary
In these episodes we use the tools from our different disciplines to comment on popular culture and everyday life. Fun and playful — and a little political!
S03E08 | Nasty Women: Hillary Clinton and the Question of Critique
S03E07 | For Women, By Women: Insecure, Broad City, and Girls
S01E21 | When Bruce Lee meets Bruce Leroy
S01E18 | Appreciation or Appropriation?
S01E15 | PhDivas on Divas: Why We Love Nicki Minaj
S01E07 | . . .what’s in a name?
S01E06 | Saying IN YOUR FACE to #mathpower
S01E04 | Fresh Off the Boat makes us feel weird.
