SBGS Launches CSUMB OtterPod March 1
OtterPod, a social science and public humanities podcast by CSUMB undergraduates focusing on issues of social, racial, and environmental studies
The School of Social, Behavioral, and Global Studies is proud to announce the launch of the OtterPod by Assistant Professor of Global Studies Sara Salazar Hughes. The OtterPod is a social science and public humanities podcast by CSUMB undergraduates that focuses on issues of social, racial, and environmental studies.
This podcast is aimed at using storytelling to validate different ways of knowing and diverse lived experiences. The goals are to make scholarly research accessible to a wider audience; to use storytelling as a medium for disseminating knowledge; to explore different ways knowledge surfaces, how it is produced and disseminated; and to validate diverse ways of knowing, lived experiences, and positionalities. The first student episodes stream March 2021. New episodes stream each semester.
Executive producers of the podcast are Dr. Sara Salazar Hughes and Senior Assistant Librarian of Ethnic and Gender Studies Liz Zepeda. The Editorial Board also includes SBGS Assistant Professor of History Chrissy Lau. For questions about submitting to the OtterPod, contact sahughes@csumb.edu.
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Salazar Hughes and Liz Zepeda, recipients of a $4,000 Innovation and Technology Opportunity grant from the Pacific Library Partnership (PLP). The grant will be used in part to purchase professional microphones and headsets that will be available for students to borrow from the CSUMB Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library.
Interested in Submitting Content?
The focus of the OtterPod is intentionally broad so as to serve as an inclusive platform for CSUMB undergraduate research. At the time of launching (Fall 2020-Spring 2021) the podcast is designed as a social science and public humanities podcast by CSUMB undergraduates that focuses on issues of social, racial, and environmental justice. This leaves a lot of space for a variety of themes, topics, concepts, and stories to be explored in OtterPod episodes. If you want to pitch an episode idea before producing it, you are welcome to email sahughes@csumb.edu (Dr. Sara Salazar Hughes), lizepeda@csumb.edu (Lizeth Zepeda), clau@csumb.edu (Dr. Chrissy Lau).
For full details on submission guidelines as well as some podcast recording resources, please visit the OtterPod Submission Guide.