PhD wisdom says don't change your dissertation committee. Shruti from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has changed hers. Twice. Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room to hear her story and learn how frustrating it is for an international student in an American PhD program. For more information about the following authors referenced please check out these links: bell hooks: http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/ Jasbir Puar: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar Jennifer Nash: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Jennifer.Nash

Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room as we welcome Ignacio Choi, a scholar of Comparative Literature.

Join Andrew Rimby and Adam Katz as they explore their PhD process from the boiler room. Helene Meyers' "Public Scholar, Beware" https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/04/11/risks-and-rewards-engaging-public-scholarship-opinion

In the ivory tower, the elevator is broken. The staircases are locked. And we are broadcasting from the basement.