Feb 21, 2023
Season 1: Emancipating the Academy
Judy Young is the Executive Director at the UCSF National Center of Excellence (CoE) in Women’s Health and Ramona Laughing Brook Webb is a Poet-in-Residence at the CoE. In this episode, Young and Webb discuss their work at the CoE and their journeys to the academy. They describe their work with the Black Women’s Health & Livelihood Initiative at the CoE and also reflect on strategies for engaging and working with community. Ramona Laughing Brook Webb shares the impact of arts integration in health as well as shares a poem and...
Feb 15, 2023
Season 1: Emancipating the Academy
Dr. Sean Arayasirikul is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Irvine and mentor and Co-Principal Investigator of the SHINE Strong Program. In this episode, Dr. Arayasirikul traces their journey to public health and sociology as well as reflects on disrupting dominant paradigms in HIV prevention science and trans and non-binary population health. They also share critical insights on the value of mentorship and pedagogy in enacting change in the academy. Dr. Arayasirikul provides their thoughts...
Feb 8, 2023
Season 1: Emancipating the Academy
In this episode, the Emancipatory Sciences Lab is joined by members of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab at George Washington University to discuss liberatory approaches to scholarship. The Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab is led by Dr. Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University and co-author of the new book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. She is joined in this episode by two brilliant students from the Lab, Razzan Quran, MPsy, MS and...
Feb 1, 2023
Season 1: Emancipating the Academy
Dr. Oliver Rollins is an Assitant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at University of Washington and author of the newly released book, Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain. In this episode, Dr. Rollins traces his intellectual development and personal journey to studying the sociology of neuro & brain sciences. Dr. Rollins reflects on the implications of academic knowledge production for social inequity through his study of neuroscientists and the construction of the "violent brain." He unpacks what...