S5 Special! Liz interviews her mom
Mother's Day Special! Liz interviews her mom about what it's like to raise a PhDiva. Learn about Liz's childhood career aspirations and their intergen...
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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.
S6E2 | Springtime Rejections: PhDivas Talk About Academic Failure
Springtime is the season of success for a few... and rejection for the majority. PhDivas Liz and Xine revisit the perennial topic of the many, many fo...
S6E1 | New Year, New Faculty Struggles: 2021 Inspirations & Insurrection
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 ...
S5E18 | The Good, the Bad, the COVID-19: Winding Down and Burning Out
PhDivas Dr. Xine Yao and Dr. Liz Wayne get together over American Thanksgiving to talk about the challenges of working during COVID19. Supporting our ...
S5E17 | The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zoo Archaeology w Alex Fitzpatrick
"This belongs in a museum!" Indiana Jones's catchphrase inspired generations of young archaeologists like Alex Fitzpatrick who are now critical of the...
S3E16 | Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic ft. Archaeologist Alex Fitzpatrick
Handing in your PhD dissertation and disrupting the field of archaeology is exhausting enough... but during a global pandemic? Archaeologist Alex Fitz...
S5E15 | Degrees of Difference: WOC Graduate Experiences with Denise Delgado & Kim McKee
Imagine an interdisciplinary volume collecting advice and experiences of women of colour in graduate school. PhDiva Xine discusses Degrees of Differen...
S5E14 | Disability Activism & Access in Academia: Divya Persaud & Ellie Armstrong
COVID-19 presents new challenges and possibilities for disabled students. Thousands signed an open letter asking grant agencies to automatically exten...
S5E13 | Space Science, Space Colonialism: Ellie Armstrong & Divya Persaud on #SSiC2020
"To boldly go to where no man has gone before" -- the classic Star Trek slogan reflects how colonialism informs space exploration. NASA's technologies...
S5E12 | COVID-19 Care-Work for Academic Families & Singles with Professor Charissa Cheah
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 lockdow...