This episode is the third and final of a three-part series on friendship in the academy. Whitney interviews Michelle Rodrigues, Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University, and Kate Clancy, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. They discuss allyship, countering gaslighting, and the curious social similarities between humans and spider monkeys.

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Michelle Rodrigues Websites and Social MediaFaculty ProfileTeaching and Research E-Portfolio@MARspidermonkey (Twitter)Decolonize Primatology Reading List

Kate Clancy Websites and Social MediaFaculty ProfileKate’s Website@KateClancy (Twitter)PERIOD (Podcast)

“THERE’S REALIZING, AND THEN THERE’S REALIZING”: HOW SOCIAL SUPPORT CAN COUNTER GASLIGHTING OF WOMEN OF COLOR SCIENTISTS” (PDF link, Article by Michelle Rodrigues, Ruby Mendenhall, and Kate Clancy)

Tend-and-befriend (Michelle’s work on spider monkeys)

Researcher Positionality - A Consideration of Its Influence and Place in Qualitative Research - A New Researcher Guide (PDF link)

Reflexivity Definition

Soylent Is People, and WEIRD Is White: Biological Anthropology, Whiteness, and the Limits of the WEIRD (PDF link, Article by Kate Clancy and Jenny Davis)

Objectivism Definition

Intersectionality Definition

A comparative examination of research on why women are more underrepresented in some STEMM disciplines compared to others, with a particular focus on computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, medicine, chemistry, and biology (PDF link, Article by Michelle Rodrigues and Kate Clancy)

NIH FIRST Program

Women of Color in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Dara Norman, Jedidah Isler, et al.)

Gaslighting DefinitionSchmoozing And The Gender Gap (The Indicator from Planet Money Podcast)

A full transcript of the episode can be found here.

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