What are the things you need to consider before embarking on a PhD program? In this episode, I reunited with my very good friend and fellow IUJ graduate, Dr Prabhat Barnwal, now an Assistant Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.  Prabhat...

Episode 10: Networking is important in many careers, including in academia. But how can introverts, like me, overcome anxiety, fear, and imposter syndrome in order to network with other people in our disciplines? In this episode, I shared some tips for...

Episode 9: For this inaugural episode of the Scholars Unbound: ACUNS Tokyo Series, Arbenita Sopaj (Kobe University) and Raymond Andaya (University of Tokyo) shared their research motivations, research plans, and networking activities as graduate...

Episode 8: What can we do, individually and collectively, to fight a system that was not built for us, scholars or students from and of the Global South, of color and of minority, and women and LGBTQ scholars? We need to be louder and stronger than the...

For this episode, I re-connected with Dr. Rabi'ah Aminudin, my senior at the International University of Japan, who finished her PhD at the University of Manchester. She shared the highs and lows of being a minority scholar and how to get going despite...

This episode is a reading of an article I've written for the International Affairs blog, entitled "I hope this finds you well living in the Anthropocene," drawing on my research published in the International Affairs journal. You can find the much more...