In this workshop, Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes will guide participants through creating public-facing podcasts grounded in research.

About this event

Zora's Daughters is a society and culture podcast that uses Black feminist anthropology to close read popular culture and model critical participant observation of the world we live in.

In this workshop, Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes, the duo behind the award-winning podcast, will guide participants through the process of creating a public-facing podcast that speaks to and emerges from research. Workshop participants will engage in a series of questions and activities designed to help them think obliquely about their scholarly interests and develop their ideas into a compelling and widely accessible creative project. The workshop will cover essential topics such as: finding your ‘why’; identifying your audience; developing a topic; and creating a public presence.

Alyssa A. James is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, a 2020 SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, and co-host of the Black feminist anthropology podcast Zora’s Daughters. Her research examines the discourses that transform commodities into heritage as it unfolds through a nascent coffee revival project in Martinique. In her free time, you’ll find Alyssa dancing, traveling, and writing about it.

Brendane Tynes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is a 2018 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow whose research centers the affective experiences of Black people in the Movement for Black Lives. Her research stands at the intersections of affect theory, Anthropology, and Black Studies with a particular emphasis on Black feminist anthropological theory and praxis. In her free time, Brendane enjoys writing poetry and dancing.

2023 NEPH Consortium

Along with the Bard Graduate Center, the Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Columbia Center for Oral History Research, and INCITE, OHMA is co-hosting the 2023 gathering of the Northeastern Public Humanities Consortium.

As part of the gathering, we are offering free, in-person workshops in the morning on Saturday, April 22 (our first in-person training workshops since 2020!) as well as a public panel on Friday, April 21, featuring INCITE's I See My Light Shining project. See and register for all public events here.