Ask an Expert
Due Sunday, Sept 29.
I interviewed Joseph Johnston, I emailed the recording to Professor Porter since I could not upload it to Foliotek. See below for two questions I created.
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key point of Module 1 is that we know through the body. Choose a
faculty expert here on campus to interview about how their discipline
considers the body as a way of knowing.
Reach out to the professor by Sept 15 to request a meeting by Sept 22. When
you email the professor to ask for a meeting, be sure to tell them it
is for our class, and share our learning goal: we are trying to
dismantle body-mind dichotomies by noticing how the body knows things. Share the questions in advance so they know what to expect and can collaborate in editing questions if they wish. Please ask permission to record the interview; keep it around 30min; and upload the recording here. Please introduce the professor during the audio recording, just like a podcast. Feel free to ask follow up questions to make it a conversation.
If the professor does not permit recording, ask if you can take notes and transcribe their answers here.
1. Tell me about yourself and what you study.
2. What interests and curiosities brought you to this discipline in general?
3. What interests and curiosities brought you to your research topic specifically?
4.
Have your studies changed any of your physical habits in ways you feel
comfortable sharing? (This could range from eye strain and carpal tunnel
syndrome to eating habits developed in fieldwork to taking the dog for a
walk during writer's block to spending recreation time near streams
thinking about microbiomes...)
5. Does your body affect your studies, methodologies, or theoretical lenses in ways you would like to share with me?
6. Are there virtues or values you've developed through the practice of research?
And ask another two questions of your own.
7. Has your body ever prohibited you from achieving anything?
8. Being a sociology professor do you ever read into people and try to articulate their body and their movements and how it affects them?