PhDivas

By PhDivas

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Episodes: 123

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Podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Dr. Liz Wayne and Dr. Christine "Xine" Yao are two women of color Ivy League PhDs navigating higher education. Biomedical engineer meets literary critic. Both fans of lipstick.

Episode Date
S7E1 | You Are Not Alone: Race + Mental Health w Dr Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott
Sep 26, 2022
S6E9 | Pandemic Pedagogy & Sailor Moon Solidarity w Dr. Cassie Osei
Jul 11, 2022
S6E8 | Afro-Brazilian Women's History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei
May 27, 2022
S6E7 | PhDivas Discuss DISAFFECTED: Solidarities Outside the Master's House
Mar 22, 2022
S6E6 | WOC Then, WOC Now Pt 1: Writing Books & Historical Black Women in STEM
Feb 21, 2022
S6E5 | WOC Scholars in Community: PhDiva Xine's Book Launch!
Dec 30, 2021
S6E4 | PhDivas Watch Netflix's The Chair: WOC Safeguarding & Sabotage
Sep 30, 2021
S6E3 | Casteism ≠ Racism: Prof Shaista Patel on the Failures of 'Postcolonialism'
Aug 24, 2021
S5 Special! Liz interviews her mom
May 10, 2021
S6E2 | Springtime Rejections: PhDivas Talk About Academic Failure
Apr 29, 2021
S6E1 | New Year, New Faculty Struggles: 2021 Inspirations & Insurrection
Mar 11, 2021
S5E18 | The Good, the Bad, the COVID-19: Winding Down and Burning Out
Dec 18, 2020
S5E17 | The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zoo Archaeology w Alex Fitzpatrick
Nov 30, 2020
S3E16 | Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic ft. Archaeologist Alex Fitzpatrick
Oct 30, 2020
S5E15 | Degrees of Difference: WOC Graduate Experiences with Denise Delgado & Kim McKee
Sep 30, 2020
S5E14 | Disability Activism & Access in Academia: Divya Persaud & Ellie Armstrong
Aug 13, 2020
S5E13 | Space Science, Space Colonialism: Ellie Armstrong & Divya Persaud on #SSiC2020
Jul 16, 2020
S5E12 | COVID-19 Care-Work for Academic Families & Singles with Professor Charissa Cheah
Jun 11, 2020
S5E11 | Cells and Society at Work: Biomedical & Biopolitical Takes on Immunity
May 14, 2020
S5E10 | COVID-19 Anti-Asian & Anti-Black Racism with Professor Charissa Cheah
Apr 24, 2020
S5E9 | The Migrant Precariat & the Scientific Method: Dr. Furaha Asani Against the Academic Pedestal
Apr 02, 2020
S5E8 | Let's Talk about #COVID19- Dr. Kishana Taylor
Mar 15, 2020
S5E7 | Doing Science on her Own Terms- Conversation with Dr. Laura Boykin
Mar 05, 2020
S5E6 | Black Feminism in Britain: Jade Bentil & Paulette Williams
Feb 20, 2020
S5E5 | On Asking for Help & Valuing Our Work; Launching a Patreon!
Jan 24, 2020
S5E4 | ON STRIKE! Collective Action for a Better University
Dec 02, 2019
S5E3 | Wellness Check
Nov 28, 2019
S5E2| Consent & Colonialism in Art: Khairani Barokka on Disability and Aesthetics
Oct 24, 2019
S5E1 | The Price of Research: Dr. Elaine Westbrooks on Libraries and the Knowledge Economy
Oct 03, 2019
S04E22 | #NewProf Now What? Pt 2: What About Our Loved Ones?
Aug 16, 2019
S04E21 | #NewProf Now What? Pt 1: PhDiva Liz on New Fears, New Professionalism
Jul 30, 2019
S04E20 | Not Your Apolitical Asians: Rachel Kuo on the Asian American Feminist Collective
May 31, 2019
S04E19 | No Degree Is Worth Your Soul: Ciarra Milan's Queer Womanist Theology
Apr 30, 2019
S04E18 | Who is Scandalized by the Admissions Scandal? Interview with Maryam Toorawa
Mar 27, 2019
S04E17 | Thinking of Applying to Grad School? PhDivas Advice for Humanities & STEM
Dec 20, 2018
S04E16 | PhDivas Talk Tarot: QTPOC Occult in the Era of Secular Science
Nov 30, 2018
S4E15 | Poetry for Everyone (including you!): Anne Simpson on Workshops and Weightlifting
Oct 26, 2018
S04E14 | Ethics of Ecology: Saori Ogura on Crops & Indigenous Knowledges in Zimbabwe & Himalaya
Sep 13, 2018
S04E13 | On Being in Public Pt 2: When Our Voices Make Us Into Targets
Aug 02, 2018
E04E12 | On Being in Public Pt 1: 3 Years of PhDivas! Lifting Others, Lifting Ourselves
Jul 26, 2018
S04E11 | Diversity in the Geosciences: Hard Questions for Hard Sciences ft Sara Cannon, Leonora King
Jun 14, 2018
S04E10 | Who Cares About Violence Against Muslim Students? Wajiha Mehdi on Student Protests in India
May 18, 2018
S04E09 | London Calling: PhDiva Xine Will Be a #NewProf
Apr 26, 2018
S04E08 | Conjuring the Work of Words: E. Andrews & K. Sellinger Edit a Special Issue on Blackness
Mar 30, 2018
S04E07 | Alaska Native Narratives: Interview with Indigenous Filmmaker & Writer Kavelina Torres
Feb 28, 2018
S04E06 | Who Gets Cited? Allyship & Alt-Right Attacks with Drs. Carrie Mott & Daniel Cockayne
Jan 18, 2018
S04E05 | Othello in America: Prof Brigitte Fielder on Race, American Studies, & Academia
Dec 14, 2017
S04E04 | Dealing with Diaspora: Kiran Sunar on Punjabi Legacies
Nov 17, 2017
S04E03 | Empowering Teen Girls of Color: Eden and Ellisa Oyewo of C.O.R.E. Magazine
Oct 27, 2017
S04E02 | DREAMing of STEM: #DefendDACA Impacts Dory Castillo's Physicist Hopes & Science Teaching
Sep 29, 2017
S04E01 | Starting School After #Charlottesville: Dr. Jill Spivey Caddell on #SilentSam & Monuments
Sep 01, 2017
S03E30 | Negative Results to Positive Outcomes: Dr. Erica Pratt on Struggles in Science
Aug 24, 2017
S03E29 | Animal Doctors/Human Medicine: Katti Horng on Vet School & HIV Research
Aug 03, 2017
S03E28 | Anti-Racist Student Activism and Its Aftermath: Interview with Kristi Carey
Jul 20, 2017
S03E27 | Can We Ever Take a Break?
Jul 07, 2017
S03E26 | Decolonizing or Indigenizing the University? Interview with Sereana Naepi
Jun 19, 2017
S03E25 | Surviving the Job Market, Setting Up a Lab: Interview with Dr. Nadia Chernyak
Jun 08, 2017
S03E24 | #SavetheNEH
May 26, 2017
S03E23 | The Secret Life of Academic Conferences
May 20, 2017
S03E22 | #TED2017: PhDiva Liz and Black Excellence
May 13, 2017
S03E21 | April Showers: End of Semester Stress
Apr 07, 2017
S03E20 | Coming-of-Age in Academia: Interview with Brianda Beverley of Flyy Science
Mar 13, 2017
S03E19 | Black Child Joy: Black History Month Recap with Prof Danielle Morgan
Mar 02, 2017
S03E18 | Not Just in February: Black History Month Interview with Prof Mari Crabtree
Feb 27, 2017
S03E17 | Intersectionality in Science: Interview with Prof Sarah Richardson
Feb 17, 2017
S03E16 | Muslim Fictions: Interview with Dr. Noor Hashem
Feb 10, 2017
S03E15 | Whose Science? Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Harvard
Jan 27, 2017
S03E13 | Hip Hop Scholarship: Interview with Dr. Shahara'Tova V. Dente
Jan 13, 2017
S03E12 | New Year's Resolutions 2017
Jan 06, 2017
S03E11 | End of 2016 Review
Dec 31, 2016
S03E10 | Dark Matter: Axions Cosmology & Being a Black Scientist; Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Dec 02, 2016
S03E09 | Data is Us: Interview with Rumman Chowdhury
Nov 24, 2016
S03E08 | Nasty Women: Hillary Clinton and the Question of Critique
Nov 18, 2016
S03E07 | For Women, By Women: Insecure, Broad City, and Girls
Nov 04, 2016
S03E06 | Mighty Morphing: Interview with Sammus
Oct 20, 2016
S03E05 | Adjunct Life with Dr. Shyla Saltzman
Oct 13, 2016
S03E04 | The Final Countdown: Getting Ready for the Final PhD Years
Oct 06, 2016
S03E03 | Science + Art = Super Cool Scientists! Interview with Sara MacSorley
Sep 29, 2016
S03E02 | Postdoc Appreciation
Sep 22, 2016
S03E01 | Why You Should Postdoc: Interview with Dr. Catharine Young
Sep 08, 2016
S02E13 | Writing for the Public: Alt-Ac Interview with Meredith Talusan
Sep 01, 2016
S02E12 | The Adviser's Point-of-View: Interview with Professor Shirley Samuels
Aug 20, 2016
S02E11 | Being a Woke White Guy: Interview with Phil Burnham
Jul 22, 2016
S02E10 | Inside Higher Education: Interview with Erica Ostermann
Jul 07, 2016
S02 Special Episode | Graduation!
Jun 24, 2016
S02E09 | Teaching While Women of Color: Part 2
Jun 09, 2016
S03E08 | Teaching While Women of Color: Part 1
May 26, 2016
S02E07 | Imposter Syndrome & Other Anxieties
May 13, 2016
S02E06 | Imposter Syndrome - Teaser
May 06, 2016
S02E05 | International Students: The Silent Majority (Interview with Dr. Michelle Tong)
Apr 21, 2016
S02E04 | Black Girl Humor: Interview with Dr. Danielle Morgan
Apr 14, 2016
S02E03 | The Trap Of Overachievement
Apr 08, 2016
S02E02 | Spring Renewal -- and Rejection
Mar 31, 2016
S02E01 | It Happens Here: Sexual Assault in Academia
Mar 24, 2016
S01E28 | Friendship as Activism: Keynote
Mar 17, 2016
S01E27 | Are Grad Students Workers? Interview with Jack Frost
Mar 10, 2016
S01E26 | Xine Does the Vagina Monologues
Feb 25, 2016
S01E25 | Leave Of Absence: On Loss and Healing
Feb 18, 2016
S01E24 | Alternate Realities
Feb 11, 2016
S01E23 | Savvy Mentoring
Jan 30, 2016
S01E22 | Makeup and Consumerism
Jan 14, 2016
S01E21 | When Bruce Lee meets Bruce Leroy
Jan 07, 2016
S01E20 | Affirming Actions
Dec 17, 2015
S01E19 | 2-Body Problems & Padawans
Dec 10, 2015
S01E18 | Appreciation or Appropriation?
Nov 19, 2015
S01E17 | What Counts as Evidence?
Nov 12, 2015
S01E15 | PhDivas on Divas: Why We Love Nicki Minaj
Oct 29, 2015
S01E16 | Advice for Early Graduate Students
Oct 22, 2015
S01E14 | Meet PhDiva Xine Yao
Oct 15, 2015
PhDivasFootnote - Liz Defends her PhD
Oct 13, 2015
S01E13 | #Academic Anxiety: The Job Market
Oct 08, 2015
S01E12 | Studying What You Love: Interview with PhDiva Shyla Foster
Oct 01, 2015
S01E11 | Xine Brings Liz To The Mutter Museum
Sep 24, 2015
S01E10 | Liz Brings Xine To A Lab
Sep 17, 2015
S01E09 | Introducing PhDiva Liz
Sep 10, 2015
S01E07 | . . .what's in a name?
Sep 04, 2015
S01E08 | And.... We're Are Back!
Sep 03, 2015
S01E06 | Saying IN YOUR FACE to #mathpower
May 19, 2015
S01E05 | Can We Be Academics AND Activists?
May 12, 2015
S01E04 | Fresh Off the Boat makes us feel weird.
Apr 29, 2015
S01E03 | Are women preferred 2:1 over men in STEM? …nah.
Apr 27, 2015
S01E02 | Growing Up Reading
Apr 27, 2015
S01E01 | Women And Icons
Apr 22, 2015