Your host talks about the importance of asking questions, how to ask them in class and outside of class, and how to schedule office hour appointments with your professors.

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Your host interviews Dr. Victoria Reyes about her book, Academic Outsider, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education.

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• Victoria Reyes is an Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California Riverside. She is a sociologist and gender scholar who studies culture, borders, and empires. Her research and teaching interests include culture, global and transnational sociology, economic sociology, urbanism, historical/comparative sociology, qualitative methods, race/ethnicity, gender, and law and society. Dr. Reyes is author of the multi-award winning book Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (published in 2019 by Stanford University Press) and Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope, which was just published in July 2022 through Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press. 
• You may be able to get a 20% discount on the book by using code OUTSIDER20 on the publisher's website. 
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• My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
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• My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

Your host interviews Dr. Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor about mentorship dos and don'ts, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education. 

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• Shantel Martinez is the Director of First-Generation Programs and Enrichment for the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has a PhD in Communications and Media with an emphasis on Latinx Communication and Gender Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a practitioner-scholar, she centers storytelling and narrative practices to examine cycles of intergenerational trauma/survival in both familial and educational spaces. She utilizes this research to inform her approach to build mentorship pipelines, form community, and cultivate narratives of survival. She can be found on LinkedIn, here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantel-martinez-phd-358b8967/
• Bryant Taylor is from the Bay Area, California, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon in their inaugural Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies program. His research interests include Black queer home-making, oral histories, archives, and queer video game spaces.
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• I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered. 
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• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
• My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
• Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
• I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
• My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

In this first full episode of the show, your host explores why he's doing the show, how and why the "hidden curriculum" is useful and not, and how attentiveness to structural inequality is important -- plus some advice on making it through the start of the academic year.

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• The piece on first-gen students and hidden curriculum from Diverse is here: https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15295583/admitting-firstgeneration-and-lowincome-students-is-not-enough
• Jessica Calarco, A Field Guide ro Grad School (affiliate link)
• Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider (affiliate link)
• Zachary Shore, Grad School Essentials (affiliate link)
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• I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered. 
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• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
• My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
• Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
• I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
• My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

A brief episode in which your host talks about what comes next in this final countdown to Episode 1. 

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• Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
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• My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
• Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
• I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
• My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

A brief episode in which your host talks about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and the elimination of student debt. 

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• Read more about the PSLF here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Loan_Forgiveness
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• My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
• Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
• I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
• My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.