Being Well in Academia: A Candid Conversation About Challenges and Connection
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The other hidden curriculum: the support and care strategies necessary for being well in academia Systemic and structural barriers U...
6 Jan 20221h 25min
Find Your People: A Conversation About Meaningful Connections
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear: How part of the hidden curriculum is the support networks you need to create for yourself; How you create that by “finding your people” and...
30 Dec 20211h 2min
Dreaming of Leaving Academia to Write Full-time?
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Nancy Thayer’s path through college and graduate school, her work as a professor, how she hit a glass ceiling in academia, her decision...
23 Dec 20211h 5min
Scholarly Skills: Getting From To-Do to Done
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear: --how Maura Nevel Thomas became an expert in time-management skills --why you need to use your to-do list differently than you think --how to...
16 Dec 202150min
Shoutin’ In the Fire: A Conversation with Graduate Student Dante Stewart
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dante Stewart’s path through college and into his current graduate school, playing football for Clemson, why former college athletes ne...
7 Dec 20211h 2min
Underrepresented Groups in Archives: A Conversation About Ethics, Inclusion, and Acquisitions
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Megan Fraser’s job collecting and curating a Punk Rock archive, her current work at the Research Institute for Contemporary Outlaws, th...
2 Dec 20211h 6min
About Maternal Health Studies: A Conversation with Bethany Johnson
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Bethany Johnson’s simultaneous journey through graduate school and motherhood, her struggles with infertility, the history of birth-car...
18 Nov 20211h 22min
Wondering How to Design a Qualitative Study?
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Dana Malone’s inspiration for researching in her own backyard, why she chose to do qualitative research for her dissertation and he...
11 Nov 202155min
