Scholar Tea Scholar Tea

In this episode, Shawna and Cameron chat with friend Marc Johnston-Guerrero about his research and expanding racialized understandings in higher education. The episode also celebrates Scholar of the Week, Jedidah C. Isler, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.

In this episode Cameron and Shawna chat with Dr. William A. Smith, who coined Racial Battle Fatigue, which refers to the “cumulative result of a natural race-related stress response to distressing mental and emotional conditions." The episode also highlights the work of Scholar of the Week, Dr. Chezare A. Warren, an Associate Professor of Equity & Inclusion in Education Policy in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. Shawna and Cameron discuss a Chronicle of Higher Education article examining the politicization of earning an advanced degree.

In this episode we celebrate the contribution of Black women to higher education and chat with Dr. Lawanda Ward- https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-lawanda-ward
Our scholar of the week is Dr. Raquel Rall- https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/raquelmr
Article Mentioned in episode on Black womyn and Othermothering- Njoku et al. (2017)- https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2017.1350297

Join Cameron and Shawna for a live tapping at the Association for the Study of Higher Education conference in November 2023 in Minneapolis. The episode celebrates the past lessons Scholar Tea has offered listeners in these academic streets as both a politic and a practice. They also chat with Dr. Candace Hall about her groundbreaking documentary, Clusterluck. https://www.candacenhall.com/

In this season 3 finale we highlight Stacey Robinson, an Arthur Schomburg fellow and chat about this past summer's ruling by the Supreme Court on Affirmative Action. Our guest this episode are Dr. Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar Cruz. They are the co-authors of novels such as "In Case You Forgot" and "Busy Ain’t the Half of It".

https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/busy-aint-the-half-of-it-by-frederick-smith-and-chaz-lamar-cruz-3621-b

Join us for our first live audience recording at the ACPA convention in March 2023 in New Orleans. We highlight our scholars of the week, chat with the audience about their ACPA experience, highlight whats problematic, come with those jokes, and celebrate the accomplishments of members of the community.