Hello! I hope this finds you and yours safe and well. I am writing from the beginning of the Fall…
Reflecting on Teaching amid a Pandemic
In February 2022, I wrote brief reflections on my second year on the tenure track. It has been 2 months…
Reflecting on Year 2 on the Tenure Track
Hello! I realize it’s been a minute since I last wrote here. It is now February 2022, and I’m in…
Reflecting on Year 1 on the Tenure Track
It’s halfway through July now, and I feel as though I’m just catching my breath. (How poignant is that colloquialism…
Sharing Recent Interviews on Medical Geography, Health(care) Policy & Health(care) Equity
Hello! Can you believe it’s February already? I just wanted to pop in with a few links to some of…
Reflecting on my First Semester on the Tenure Track
Dear all, I hope that this message finds you safe and well. At the time of this writing, it is…
From the Other Side: Update on Post-PhD Life
Well, I’ve been in this role (Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management) since July 1, 2020. In a nutshell,…
Lessons from Graduate School, Part 1
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…