Davidson Microaggressions Project

In this episode, DMP founder Amanda R. Martinez hosts a conversation with two guests, who are Latina women of color in administrator positions, Dr. Shantel Martinez, Director of the First-Generation Programs and Enrichment for the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Bianca Zamora, Associate Director for Stanford University's School of Humanities and Sciences. They discuss how they found their...

This podcast episode features an interview with two educators, Dr. Chen and Dr. Lawless, who are experts in intercultural communication, social justice, and critical communication pedagogy. They discuss their backgrounds, experiences, and how their intersecting identities shape their perspectives on power, privilege, and social justice in the classroom. They emphasize the importance of understandi...

In this podcast episode by the Davidson Microaggressions Project, the host, Dr. Amanda R. Martinez, interviews two members of Davidson College's Academic Access and Disability Resources Office: Director Beth Bleil and Assistant Director Alysen Beaty. They discuss the educational and professional backgrounds that led them to their current positions. The conversation delves into the concept of a...

In this episode, two Davidson students, Ricky (DMP collaborator) and Carlin (Monuments Initiative), interview Eboni, the president of the Black Student Coalition (BSC), with Caro, the vice president of the organization. The conversation is about a multicultural organization at Davidson College called the Black Student Coalition (BSC). The participants discuss the significance of having a multicult...

In this episode, two Davidson students and DMP collaborators interview Endia Beal, an artist, educator, and photographer from North Carolina. Endia discusses her educational background and how she found solace in art after experiencing a tragedy in high school. She decided to focus her artwork on racism, discrimination, and systemic marginalization to shed light on untold truths and initiate impor...

On this episode of the Davidson Microaggressions Project, the host sits down with Dr. Amber Johnson, an award-winning associate professor of communication and social justice at St. Louis University and the founder of the justice fleet. Dr. Johnson's work focuses on identity, protest, social justice, and digital media. She is also an artist and activist using mixed media art to challenge system...

In this episode, DMP collaborator Ricky Pinnock interviews the Professor of the Practice in the Department of Communication Studies at Davidson College and a former Harvard Nieman Fellow, Issac Bailey, about his life story and how he thrived to become a former columnist and author of two well-known books. Issac Bailey shares with us how he started his path and opened up by talking about his family...

In this episode, Dr. Amanda R. Martinez, the founder of DMP, interviews Tiffany Waddell Tate, the associate director for national engagement in the Office of University Advancement at Wake Forest University. They discuss the topic of dealing with microaggressions in the workplace and provide strategies and recommendations for young people, particularly those from historically marginalized groups,...

In this episode, DMP collaborator Juan Diaz Mercado interviews Jewish Studies professor-scholar Dr. Ilana McQuinn and Davidson senior Dhalia Kurtkovich about the unique intersections of marginalization and being Jewish in the U.S. American south, and Jewish hybrid identity in both Europe and the U.S. Our guests urge us to think beyond persecution tropes towards a critical understanding of Jewish h...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their classes. As a follow up to the blog, DMP presents a ser...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their classes. As a follow up to the blog, DMP presents a ser...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their classes. As a follow up to the blog, DMP presents a ser...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their classes. As a follow up to the blog, DMP presents a ser...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their classes. As a follow up to the blog, DMP presents a ser...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their classes. As a follow up to the blog, DMP presents a ser...

In Spring of 2020, the Davidson Microaggressions Project published a  guest blog co-written by two members of the Student Government  Association's Academics Committee, Julia Bauer and Wren Healy, on the  topic of anonymous grading as one concrete strategy that professors can  implement to combat bias and support disenfranchised students in their  classes. As a follow up t...

In this episode, Dr. Amanda R. Martinez and Ashley Ip, member of the Asian American Initiative, interview Dr. James Cho about his dissertation research featuring Asian American youth activism and hashtags over the last six years to track discourse and language for interracial solidarity with other communities of color. Cho interrogates how, why and who is empowered to do activism work among the va...

In this episode, DMP collaborator Basil Wiering interviews Professor  Brittany Hunt, a member of the Lumbee Tribe, and doctoral candidate at  UNCC. She highlights the erasure of Native Americans and how rampant  cultural appropriation is in the fabric of our society. Oftentimes,  indigenous people are not credited for their many cultural  contributions; one example is that...

In this episode, DMP collaborators Jaelyn Taylor and Juan Diaz Mercado interview Davidson alumnae Isabel Ballester and Morgan Spivey about building community, finding your people in white dominant (academic and other) spaces, and (re)discovering identity through immersive, newfound knowledge gained in both in/formal educational settings. They stress the importance of diversifying the faculty and s...

In this episode, DMP founder Dr. Amanda R. Martinez interviews Itziri Gonzalez-Barcenas, Davidson alum from North Carolina & Mexico, and her partner Brice Rosette, a Martinican-Parisian, about the complicated, often tension-filled decisions fueled by restrictive migration policies and personal desire to experience the world beyond border limitations to pursue academic, personal, and profession...

In this episode, DMP collaborator Juan Diaz-Mercado interviews Loyola  Marymount University lecturer and University of Colorado at Boulder  doctoral candidate, Prof. Rebecca Avalos about her research on Trump's  "Make America Great Again" racial project, with a focus specifically on  Latinx communities, racial logics, nationalism, migration, and borders.  Avalos describes...

In this episode, DMP collaborator Jaelyn Taylor interviews University of  Memphis Communication Studies professor Dr. Andre E. Johnson about his work on race, rhetoric, and religion. Dr. Johnson describes how he found his scholarly path and why he self-proclaims a "bootleg scholar" identity, as it speaks plainly to the common experiences with microaggressions in academia that minority fa...

In this episode, DMP collaborators Michi and Julia interview Davidson College Gender & Sexuality Studies professors Dr. Katie Horowitz and Dr. Melissa González about gender, sexuality, identity, pronouns, and microaggressions. They reflect upon their educational and professional paths including pivotal moments that have inspired their research and teaching agendas. Drs. González and Horow...

In this episode, DMP collaborators Michi and Juan interview Davidson College Anthropology professors Dr. Laurian Bowles and Dr. Helen Cho about systemic racism, its manifestation in academic institutional contexts, and microaggressions. They reflect upon their educational and professional paths and discuss their experiences as students and professors, and offer their perspectives about how Davidso...

This first short introduction episode features the Davidson Microaggressions Project collaboration team, including Dr. Amanda R. Martinez and student collaborators Michi LaCorte, Julia Lau, Juan Diaz Mercado, Jaelyn Taylor, Ricky Pinnock, and Basil Wiering. We overview the inspiration and motivation for developing this podcast as our next project step and we highlight our slate of guests coming up...