We go back to Comics School this week with a special crossover episode featuring Dr. Krista Gehring from the University of Houston-Downtown and special co-host Dr. Mike Dando to talk about Krista’s work creating CrimComics.

This week I talk to Thomas Owen Baker, Criminology Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis about his research on policing and his experiences in law enforcement and the military.

This week, I talk with Dr. Michael O. Johnston from William Penn University about his wide variety of research projects, all using content analysis to learn more about identity.

This week, I speak to Dr. Andreea Maierean, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Wilkes University, about her research on transitional justice and the politics of fracking in Eastern Europe.

This week, I talk to Dr. Megan Connell (Geeks Like Us), Amelia Herbst (Geeks Like Us), Peter Jung (Roll for Kindness), and Jamie Flecknoe (Roll Play Lead) about their experiences using video games and Dungeon & Dragons in their therapeutic, counseling, skills development, and leadership work with adolescents.

This week, I talk with Dr. Mike Dando, Assistant Professor from St. Cloud State University, about comic books, afrofuturism and his experiences teaching on these subjects.

This week, I talk with Malissa Alinor from the University of Georgia about her work on the ways experiencing racial discrimination affects us emotionally.

This week I talk with Dr. Carey Yazeed from Indiana Wesleyan University about her 20 year career as an entrepreneur and social worker.

This week, I talk with Dr. Brooke Gazdag about leadership. Brooke is an Organizational Psychologist and since March 2020 an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Brooke got her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University at Buffalo and has since worked as Post Doc at the Technical University of Munich and then as an Assistant Professor at the University of Munich in Germany. Her research areas include leadership, negotiations and diversity.