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Memento Mori: A Photo-Elicit Narrative Analysis on Grief | Dissertation Watch
Jared Becknell, in fulfilling the requirements for a PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision, Antioch University Seattle, has written and published a dissertation titled, Memento Mori: A Photo-Elicit Narrative Analysis on Grief. Becknell conducts a photo-elicitation narrative analysis to examine how bereaved people engage grief by preserving and relating to artifacts from deceased loved ones.…
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From ESG to Ethical Leadership: How Antioch Prepares Future Leaders
Business education is changing, and Antioch University is leading the way. Antioch University’s Triple Bottom Line MBA integrates ESG—Environmental, Social, and Governance—principles to train ethical, systems-minded leaders prepared to tackle sustainability, governance, and social responsibility. I. Rethinking Business Education In a world where climate change, social inequities, and corporate governance scandals make headlines daily, leaders…
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One Good Point: Adaptive Leadership
In today’s world, leaders face challenges that are more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous—what scholars call a “VUCA” environment—than ever before. Traditional top-down approaches often fall short in such conditions. Ken Williams, PhD, Professor of Leadership and Change at Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change, argues that the key lies in adaptive leadership: centering…
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Antioch MFA Listed as One of “30 Best Film Schools” for Third Year
For the third consecutive year, Antioch University’s MFA in Creative Writing has earned a coveted spot on MovieMaker Magazine’s annual list of the 30 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada. The 2025 edition of the list, written by Deirdre McCarrick, aims to identify institutions that rise above the rest and that “will help…
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Loving-Learning-Leading-Living: A Scholarly Personal Narrative of a Black Gay Father | Dissertation Watch
Russell E. Thornhill, in fulfilling the requirements for an EdD in Educational and Professional Practice, has written and published a dissertation titled Loving-Learning-Leading-Living: A Scholarly Personal Narrative of a Black Gay Father. Thornhill employs Scholarly Personal Narrative to examine Black gay fatherhood at the intersection of faith, family, and social justice. He weaves his lived…
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How Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs Awaken, Develop, and Teach Clinical Intuition: A Hermeneutic Qualitative Phenomenological Study | Dissertation Watch
Jessica Fountas, in fulfilling the requirements for a PhD in Couple and Family Therapy at Antioch University New England, has written and published a dissertation titled, How Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs Awaken, Develop, and Teach Clinical Intuition: A Hermeneutic Qualitative Phenomenological Study. Informed by a social constructionist stance, Fountas’ research explores how clinical…
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Antioch Spotlight: PhDLC Alum Alicia Wargo on Researching White Racial Equity Workshop
In the ongoing fight for racial equity, the role of white facilitators is a complex and under-explored terrain. Alicia Wargo, a 2025 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change, recently explored these questions in her doctoral dissertation, Embracing the Both/And: Learning from the Lived Experiences of White Facilitators of Racial Equity Workshops. Using the…
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Antioch Faculty Co-Chairs Global Leadership and Followership ILA Conference
The International Leadership Association (ILA) is holding a conference on September 18, and one of the two conference co-chairs is Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, PhD, who serves as Teaching Faculty in Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change. The conference, titled “Global Leadership and Followership for Our Polarized World: Theory, Methodology, and Practice,” brings together scholars, practitioners,…
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Where Modality Meets Mission: Lessons from Antioch’s High Impact, Low-Residency Programs
Colleagues often ask me what’s so special about low-residency programs. They are curious as to whether all the hype isn’t simply just another online modality? The answer from me is emphatically, No! Well-designed low-residency programs offer the best of both worlds, the flexibility of geographically dispersed, technologically enabled learning with the intensity of onsite and…
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