In episode three of a four-part series we discuss how many students leave their graduate programs before completion, partly due to concerns of job security or availability, Jacob Barrett and Erica Bennett listen to Jared Powell explain his decision to leave his PhD program in English and pursue a career path outside academia.

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Ep. 23 Academic Job Market pt.3

This is the fourth and final episode of a four-part series, in which Erica Bennett and Jacob Barrett hear from Shannon Trosper Schorey, a recent PhD graduate in Religious Studies, on her experience in a job outside the academy, in the tech sector. Jacob and Erica then reflect on the series as a whole.

Ep. 24 Academic Job Market pt.4

In this episode of our new mini-series Examples, Ciara Eichhorst, the American Examples Fellow and a masters student in our department, discusses the topic of mesmerism, ridicule, and the corpse of an alleged mermaid with Dr. Joshua Urich. Dr. Urich received his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin and is a visiting assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. His chapter, “Truth is Never Ridiculous: Social Territory and the Cartography of Ridicule” will be published in the forthcoming third volume of American Examples. You can read more about American Examples at https://www.americanexamples.ua.edu.

Ep. 25 Example #3: Ridicule

In this episode of our new mini-series Examples, Ciara Eichhorst, the American Examples Fellow and a masters student in our department, discusses the topic of online Seduction Forums with 2022 AE participant Suzanne van Geuns. Dr. van Geuns is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion at Princeton University. Her scholarship broadly examines the intellectual exchange between computational projects and the gendered or sexual imagination, with her most recent project focusing on artificial intelligence research as it appears in heterosexual seduction advice. Her chapter on seduction forums will appear in the forthcoming volume four of the American Examples anthology series. 

You can read more about American Examples at www.americanexamples.ua.edu.

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Ep. 25 Example #4: Seduction Forums By Dept. of Religious Studies at Univ. of Alabama is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Ep. 26 Example #4: Seduction Forums

Study Religion is a production of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. The podcast brings listeners into the life of the department through discussions with faculty, student work, analysis of current events and popular culture, and interviews about the state of religious studies as a field. It is a chance to listen in to the conversations we're having on the balconies and inside the offices of Manly Hall, the department building and our logo.

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