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One Good Point: Understanding The Racialized Brain
Rengin Firat, PhD, Professor of Leadership and Change at Antioch University and a scholar of sociology and neuroscience, explores how race is not hardwired into our brains but learned through repeated exposure and social context. Growing up in Turkey, she never thought about race until her experiences as an immigrant in the U.S. made it…
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Resilience of Food Sovereignty Organizations to the COVID-19 Pandemic | Dissertation Watch
Rachel M. Brice, in fulfilling the requirements for a Phd in Environmental Studies and Sustainability at Antioch University New England, has written and published a dissertation titled, Resilience of Food Sovereignty Organizations to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In her sequential explanatory mixed methods study, Brice explores the organizational resilience of food sovereignty organizations (FSOs) in the…
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Exploring the Lived Experience of Grief in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Dissertation Watch
Martina Bauer, in fulfilling the requirements for a PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision program, Antioch University Seattle, has written and published a dissertation titled, Exploring the Lived Experience of Grief in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Using a descriptive-interpretive phenomenological approach, Bauer examined the experiences of adults diagnosed with ADHD who had lost…
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The Semantics of Suicide
Claudia Vaughan I was 19 years old when my father took his life. When people ask why he’s no longer with us, I tell them that he was sick. I say this because it is true—he had struggled, on and off, with severe depression, PTSD, and substance abuse for the majority of my childhood. There…
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Antioch Spotlight: MFA Alum Kirby Chen Mages on Hosting the First Season of Hybridia
Kirby Chen Mages is a writer, performer, visual artist, and podcast host based in Los Angeles. Their work largely takes up questions of intersectionality, nuance, and how culture and identity are in conversation with one another. A 2022 graduate of Antioch’s MFA in Creative Writing, they recently wrapped up the first season of the podcast…
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From Pathology to Personhood: Rethinking Psychosis Care
Camryn Bryan Psychotic. Sit with that word for a moment. Notice what rises. If you feel automatic discomfort or fear, your reaction is not uncommon. In the United States, psychotic disorders are often seen as terrifying and dangerous conditions that strip individuals of their humanity. While completing my Bachelor of Science in Counseling degree, I…
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Antioch Spotlight: PhDLC Alum Kader Gümüş on Thrivership and Trauma-Informed Research
When Kader Gümüş came to the part of her doctoral studies in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change, where she needed to choose a topic for her dissertation, she decided to explore the transformative journey from surviving to thriving after intimate partner violence. The final dissertation, published earlier this year, is titled Journey to Well-Being:…
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Finish What You Started: PhD Completion at Antioch University
Finish What You Started: A PhD Completion Program at Antioch UniversityYou’ve Come This Far. Now, Let’s Go the Distance. You know the feeling: you’re cleaning out a closet and find a folder of coursework, or someone mentions their dissertation, and a pang of recognition hits. You think about your own doctoral research project, which still…
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For Black College Students Who Considered Dropping Out When Grit Wasn’t Enough: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring the Influence of Family Messaging on Collegiate Outcomes | Dissertation Watch
Antioch University New England proudly announces the publication of Dawn M. Wilson’s dissertation titled, For Black College Students Who Considered Dropping Out When Grit Wasn’t Enough: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring the Influence of Family Messaging on Collegiate Outcomes. As a 2025 graduate of the PhD Program in Couple and Family Therapy, Wilson conducted a…
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