Questions to Ask (& Answer) When Onboarding New Faculty

Hello! I hope this finds you and yours safe and well. I am writing from the beginning of the Fall … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

“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 … More

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 … More

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. … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

Again

I. Transitions and Other Niceties It’s September now, and the Fall semester has begun. For me, that means attending my … More

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- … More

“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, … More

On Writing

There’s a certain irony, I think, in this blog being updated so infrequently. My goal as a PhD student is … More

Thinking about Social Positionality & Social Determinants of Health

Per 2015 American Community Survey (Census Bureau) data, non-institutionalized U.S. civilians with disabilities ages >16 had a median income of … More