All Episodes

S7E1 | You Are Not Alone: Race + Mental Health w Dr Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott

S6E9 | Pandemic Pedagogy & Sailor Moon Solidarity w Dr. Cassie Osei

S6E8 | Afro-Brazilian Women's History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei

S6E7 | PhDivas Discuss DISAFFECTED: Solidarities Outside the Master's House

S6E6 | WOC Then, WOC Now Pt 1: Writing Books & Historical Black Women in STEM

S6E5 | WOC Scholars in Community: PhDiva Xine's Book Launch!

S6E4 | PhDivas Watch Netflix's The Chair: WOC Safeguarding & Sabotage

S6E3 | Casteism ≠ Racism: Prof Shaista Patel on the Failures of 'Postcolonialism'

S5 Special! Liz interviews her mom

S6E2 | Springtime Rejections: PhDivas Talk About Academic Failure

S6E1 | New Year, New Faculty Struggles: 2021 Inspirations & Insurrection

S5E18 | The Good, the Bad, the COVID-19: Winding Down and Burning Out

S5E17 | The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zoo Archaeology w Alex Fitzpatrick

S3E16 | Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic ft. Archaeologist Alex Fitzpatrick

S5E15 | Degrees of Difference: WOC Graduate Experiences with Denise Delgado & Kim McKee

S5E14 | Disability Activism & Access in Academia: Divya Persaud & Ellie Armstrong

S5E13 | Space Science, Space Colonialism: Ellie Armstrong & Divya Persaud on #SSiC2020

S5E12 | COVID-19 Care-Work for Academic Families & Singles with Professor Charissa Cheah

S5E11 | Cells and Society at Work: Biomedical & Biopolitical Takes on Immunity

S5E10 | COVID-19 Anti-Asian & Anti-Black Racism with Professor Charissa Cheah

S5E9 | The Migrant Precariat & the Scientific Method: Dr. Furaha Asani Against the Academic Pedestal

S5E8 | Let's Talk about #COVID19- Dr. Kishana Taylor

S5E7 | Doing Science on her Own Terms- Conversation with Dr. Laura Boykin

S5E6 | Black Feminism in Britain: Jade Bentil & Paulette Williams

S5E5 | On Asking for Help & Valuing Our Work; Launching a Patreon!

S5E4 | ON STRIKE! Collective Action for a Better University

S5E3 | Wellness Check

S5E2| Consent & Colonialism in Art: Khairani Barokka on Disability and Aesthetics

S5E1 | The Price of Research: Dr. Elaine Westbrooks on Libraries and the Knowledge Economy

S04E22 | #NewProf Now What? Pt 2: What About Our Loved Ones?

S04E21 | #NewProf Now What? Pt 1: PhDiva Liz on New Fears, New Professionalism

S04E20 | Not Your Apolitical Asians: Rachel Kuo on the Asian American Feminist Collective

S04E19 | No Degree Is Worth Your Soul: Ciarra Milan's Queer Womanist Theology

S04E18 | Who is Scandalized by the Admissions Scandal? Interview with Maryam Toorawa

S04E17 | Thinking of Applying to Grad School? PhDivas Advice for Humanities & STEM

S04E16 | PhDivas Talk Tarot: QTPOC Occult in the Era of Secular Science

S4E15 | Poetry for Everyone (including you!): Anne Simpson on Workshops and Weightlifting

S04E14 | Ethics of Ecology: Saori Ogura on Crops & Indigenous Knowledges in Zimbabwe & Himalaya

S04E13 | On Being in Public Pt 2: When Our Voices Make Us Into Targets

E04E12 | On Being in Public Pt 1: 3 Years of PhDivas! Lifting Others, Lifting Ourselves

S04E11 | Diversity in the Geosciences: Hard Questions for Hard Sciences ft Sara Cannon, Leonora King

S04E10 | Who Cares About Violence Against Muslim Students? Wajiha Mehdi on Student Protests in India

S04E09 | London Calling: PhDiva Xine Will Be a #NewProf

S04E08 | Conjuring the Work of Words: E. Andrews & K. Sellinger Edit a Special Issue on Blackness

S04E07 | Alaska Native Narratives: Interview with Indigenous Filmmaker & Writer Kavelina Torres

S04E06 | Who Gets Cited? Allyship & Alt-Right Attacks with Drs. Carrie Mott & Daniel Cockayne

S04E05 | Othello in America: Prof Brigitte Fielder on Race, American Studies, & Academia

S04E04 | Dealing with Diaspora: Kiran Sunar on Punjabi Legacies

S04E03 | Empowering Teen Girls of Color: Eden and Ellisa Oyewo of C.O.R.E. Magazine

S04E02 | DREAMing of STEM: #DefendDACA Impacts Dory Castillo's Physicist Hopes & Science Teaching

S04E01 | Starting School After #Charlottesville: Dr. Jill Spivey Caddell on #SilentSam & Monuments

S03E30 | Negative Results to Positive Outcomes: Dr. Erica Pratt on Struggles in Science

S03E29 | Animal Doctors/Human Medicine: Katti Horng on Vet School & HIV Research

S03E28 | Anti-Racist Student Activism and Its Aftermath: Interview with Kristi Carey

S03E27 | Can We Ever Take a Break?

S03E26 | Decolonizing or Indigenizing the University? Interview with Sereana Naepi

S03E25 | Surviving the Job Market, Setting Up a Lab: Interview with Dr. Nadia Chernyak

S03E24 | #SavetheNEH

S03E23 | The Secret Life of Academic Conferences

S03E22 | #TED2017: PhDiva Liz and Black Excellence

S03E21 | April Showers: End of Semester Stress

S03E20 | Coming-of-Age in Academia: Interview with Brianda Beverley of Flyy Science

S03E19 | Black Child Joy: Black History Month Recap with Prof Danielle Morgan

S03E18 | Not Just in February: Black History Month Interview with Prof Mari Crabtree

S03E17 | Intersectionality in Science: Interview with Prof Sarah Richardson

S03E16 | Muslim Fictions: Interview with Dr. Noor Hashem

S03E15 | Whose Science? Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Harvard

S03E13 | Hip Hop Scholarship: Interview with Dr. Shahara'Tova V. Dente

S03E12 | New Year's Resolutions 2017

S03E11 | End of 2016 Review

S03E10 | Dark Matter: Axions Cosmology & Being a Black Scientist; Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

S03E09 | Data is Us: Interview with Rumman Chowdhury

S03E08 | Nasty Women: Hillary Clinton and the Question of Critique

S03E07 | For Women, By Women: Insecure, Broad City, and Girls

S03E06 | Mighty Morphing: Interview with Sammus

S03E05 | Adjunct Life with Dr. Shyla Saltzman

S03E04 | The Final Countdown: Getting Ready for the Final PhD Years

S03E03 | Science + Art = Super Cool Scientists! Interview with Sara MacSorley

S03E02 | Postdoc Appreciation

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

S02 Special Episode | Graduation!

S02E09 | Teaching While Women of Color: Part 2

S03E08 | Teaching While Women of Color: Part 1

S02E07 | Imposter Syndrome & Other Anxieties

S02E06 | Imposter Syndrome - Teaser

S02E05 | International Students: The Silent Majority (Interview with Dr. Michelle Tong)

S02E04 | Black Girl Humor: Interview with Dr. Danielle Morgan

S02E03 | The Trap Of Overachievement

S02E02 | Spring Renewal -- and Rejection

S02E01 | It Happens Here: Sexual Assault in Academia

S01E28 | Friendship as Activism: Keynote

S01E27 | Are Grad Students Workers? Interview with Jack Frost

S01E26 | Xine Does the Vagina Monologues

S01E25 | Leave Of Absence: On Loss and Healing

S01E24 | Alternate Realities

S01E23 | Savvy Mentoring

S01E22 | Makeup and Consumerism

S01E21 | When Bruce Lee meets Bruce Leroy

S01E20 | Affirming Actions

S01E19 | 2-Body Problems & Padawans

S01E18 | Appreciation or Appropriation?

S01E17 | What Counts as Evidence?

S01E15 | PhDivas on Divas: Why We Love Nicki Minaj

S01E16 | Advice for Early Graduate Students

S01E14 | Meet PhDiva Xine Yao

PhDivasFootnote - Liz Defends her PhD

S01E13 | #Academic Anxiety: The Job Market

S01E12 | Studying What You Love: Interview with PhDiva Shyla Foster

S01E11 | Xine Brings Liz To The Mutter Museum

S01E10 | Liz Brings Xine To A Lab

S01E09 | Introducing PhDiva Liz

S01E07 | . . .what's in a name?

S01E08 | And.... We're Are Back!

S01E06 | Saying IN YOUR FACE to #mathpower

S01E05 | Can We Be Academics AND Activists?

S01E04 | Fresh Off the Boat makes us feel weird.

S01E03 | Are women preferred 2:1 over men in STEM? …nah.

S01E02 | Growing Up Reading

S01E01 | Women And Icons