Change Your Pov Podcast

Summary: Dr. Marisa Brandt: A mediatrix is a woman who mediates ideas, translating them across spheres to promote understanding, order, and unity. Mediatrixes have long played a crucial social role as science and technology writers. As a technomediatrix, Brandt investigate sites of scientific and technocultural innovation both ethnographically and textually. Her work draws on ideas from feminism, science and technology studies, media and cultural studies, gender studies, cyborg anthropology, critical military studies, and social theories of health and medicine. Brandt is interested in how ideas about who we are as human beings are bound up in the artifacts we make, how we use them, and the knowledge they allow us to produce. Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald:  Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She received her PhD from Boston University, and her Masters Degree from The New School. Her most recent research examines combat trauma through the lenses of phenomenology, psy