Thirty-six days ago, I defended my dissertation from my kitchen on… Zoom. It was a far cry from the dissertation…
Notes from the Other Side: Post-Defense
An Update: On 30 March 2020, I defended my dissertation on Zoom, whilst sitting on a stool in my kitchen.…
“What did it take for you to arrive here?”: Healthcare Access, Social Needs, and SDOH
Picture in your mind’s eye a typical doctor’s office. What do you envision? Often, when we visualize the beginning of…
Happy New Year!
The last time I wrote here, it was mid-October, and I was working on a full draft of my dissertation…
A Brief Dispatch from My 4th Year
This past summer went by entirely too fast, and now autumn is nearing its end. The nippy cool breezes hint…
Reflecting On the 3rd Year of My PhD Program
Well, the Spring semester has been over for a month now, and this summer has been very go-go-go as I…
Devalued Lives, & Premature Death: Intervening at the Axes of Social ‘Difference’
“A racist society will give you a racist science.” — R. M. Young (1987). Racist society, racist science. In D.…
Reaching Out Across Disciplinary Boundaries as a Geographer
I. ’Placing’ myself in the field of Geography I transferred into a Geography PhD program after earning my BA in…
Reflections on My PhD Journey Thus Far
As of this writing, I am a PhD candidate in my third year of the Geography PhD program at the…
Brief Notes on the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) in Spatial Analysis: The Case of the Zip Code
[Note: Here, I refer to “zip codes” as used in the U.S. This does not apply to zip codes in…
Again
I. Transitions and Other Niceties It’s September now, and the Fall semester has begun. For me, that means attending my…
Thinking About Mobility Across Scales & Borders: A Different Take on Travel Writing
When I travel, I like to carry a notebook with me. During my honeymoon, I carried a little gold-toned notebook-…
Reflections on my 2nd year as a PhD student
As of today, I am officially done with the 2017-18 academic year. I’ve submitted my last term paper ever, and…
“Moving Together”: Or Researching Health Care Access as a Disabled Academic
As I work on my dissertation, one question arises over and over: whether my disability status as a researcher matters,…
On Writing
There’s a certain irony, I think, in this blog being updated so infrequently. My goal as a PhD student is…
