Grad Share: Recent Episodes
Leah Rubinsky
Grad Share is a podcast that examines the unique challenges of being a graduate student - specifically, the ones that don’t get talked about a whole lot: like graduate school and mental health issues, single parenting as a grad student, alternative dissertations, funding issues, going on the job market or leaving academia all together. Ultimately, my hope is that in each episode we can confront a specific challenge grad students face, commiserate about it, collect some wisdom and use it so that we can feel encouraged and empowered to do our graduate school work our way.
In this episode I talk with Dr. Amanda Lock Swarr, a professor in the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Washington about a wonderful dissertation writing course they facilitated. I actually took this course and it was THE SINGLE most useful writing support I have gotten as a graduate student writing a dissertation. Come listen to what it was that made the course so successful and why it is pivotal to support graduate students as we embark on the dissertation writing journey.
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In this episode, I talk with analytical scientist and mental health advocate Dr. Zoë Ayres about the importance of supporting the mental health and well being of PhD students.
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In this conversation Hannah talks to me about her own career path, how she got to her current position at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and what advice she has for graduate students thinking about either academic or alt-ac (non-academic) jobs. She also talks about some of the great work she’s doing around building equity in higher education through emotional vulnerability and institutional transparency in academia.
We tend to think of dissertations as being lengthy, written documents that might be hundreds of pages long. But have you ever been curious about what an alternative dissertation might be like? Join me as I speak with Anna Williams, a doctorate in English who was the first person to create and produce her dissertation in the form of a scholarly podcast.
This episode challenges the idea that the best career path for Humanities PhD students is one that leads toward the academy. Sure, becoming a professor is one of the career tracks for PhD students, but it isn't the only one. Join me as I talk with Dr. Juliet Shields, a professor of English at the University of Washington and Dr. Stacy Hartman, the Director of the Publics Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Together, we unpack why it is so important to support PhD students who are interested in diverse careers, we think through some of the challenges of making the move from academic to non-academic career paths and we identify some great resources for PhD students interested in diverse careers.