Category: Work
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Scholar Spotlight: Ramneet Kaur Bhullar
1. Why did you apply to HASTAC? HASTAC was brought my attention from a professor at my current university, Dr. Janni Aragon at UVIC. I was a first-year transfer student still trying to find my bearings in my new community and in academia. Before joining UVIC and having the opportunity to participate in HASTAC, I […]
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On Dissertating During Quarantine
When my cohort received the news last month that the library was shutting down until further notice, we messaged each other frantically on our group Facebook chat. What on earth are we going to do without the stacks? We—my small PhD cohort of five—had just finished our comprehensive exams in February and had been planning […]
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Conclusion: Bigger than a Hamburger
Growing up in a rural, predominantly white community, food options, including grocery stores and fast food restaurants were at least a 20-minute drive away. Despite their distance, fast food restaurants still have a prominent place in my childhood and teen memories; albeit, these memories are intertwined with my racial and socioeconomic privilege. In elementary school, […]
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AcCOMModating Disabilities: Best Practices for Organizational Communication about Disability Accommodation at Work.
This post is a summary of findings from a larger co-authored research project written by Lauren Lee and Jacqueline Parchois to satisfy the requirements of their Organizational Communication Master’s coursework at Texas State University. Lauren Lee (MA, Texas State University, 2019) recently graduated from the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University. She is […]
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Digital Friday Recap: Mental Health & Self-Care in Grad School
In preparing to host the “Mental Health and Self-Care in Grad School” webinar, I dug deep about what I’d like to see more of when it comes to mental health discussions in academic spaces. I thought back to the first semester of my Master’s program. What would that very anxious 26-year-old like to hear? I […]
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On the Chilean Feminist Movement & STS
ASU scholar and graduate student in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Martin Perez Comisso (@mapc), has written on the feminist movement in Chile and feminist STS (Science and Technology Studies) in “Feminism enacted: A/n (un)situated case to introduce (Chilean) feminist perspectives to STS folks” on Medium: “I’m looking at a revolution from a screen. In […]
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Lunch with Nexus (3/22): Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Arte Público, and US Latina/o Digital Humanities
The Nexus Digital Research Co-op invites you to join us for a brown bag lunch with Drs. Carolina A. Villarroel and Gabriela Baeza Ventura from the University of Houston. For those not able to make the presentation and conversation in-person, this event will be livetweeted on the #usLdh hashtag. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Arte Público, and US Latina/o […]
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Using GIS to remap agriculture from the worker’s point of view
I want to share with you all – and seek your collective wisdom about – a mapping project that I have been working on intermittently for the past year, and a version of which I presented this past fall at the Pacific Northwest History Conference under the title “Putting Workers on the Map: Agricultural Atlases, […]
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Feminist Futurisms (a HASTAC@ASU Bibliography)
In the Fall of 2018 Anne Hammang, Rebecca Monteleone, and Kaethe Selkirk joined me in a directed reading on the topic of “Feminist Futures.” While each comes to her scholarship with different foci, as a group they were eager to find common ground in critical feminist STS scholarship. Additionally, we were all interested in thinking about the […]
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Coaching and Consulting in Movies
Coaching and consulting seemingly go hand in hand. But in actuality, they are quite different. A coach is defined as someone who aids individuals or groups in maximizing their performance in pursuit of their goals. While a consultant builds a strategy for individuals or groups to implement for a shared goal or venture. Let’s say […]