My Interview Subjects

I'm really excited, but nervous starting the second project. I think it's awesome I get to reach out and meet professors within my major, it will be beneficial in the future, too, to have made these connections. In this post, I will be giving specific details about the people I am interviewing.

Interview Subjects

1. Dean MacCorquodale

I'm interviewing Dr. Patricia MacCorquodale, or Dean MacCorquodale.

Title:

-Dean of the Honors College

-Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology

-Author

Higher Ed. Degrees:

1. Ph.D., 1972-78, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2. B.A., 1968-72, Sociology, Carleton College

Experience:

Dean MacCorquodale has been a teaching Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology for 37 years

Patricia MacCorquodale. 1) University of Arizona Honors 2) University of Arizona GWS

Interview Details:

Date- Monday, February 29th

Time- 11 a.m.

Location- Slonaker House 105 (office)

2. Monica Casper

Additionally, I am interviewing Dr. Monica J. Casper. 

Title: 

-Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

-Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies

-Sociologist

-Author

-Co-editor of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism

-Managing editor of The Feminist Wire

-Founding co-editor of the Biopolitics series at NYU Press

Higher Ed. Degrees:

1. Ph.D., 1995, Sociology, University of California, San Francisco
2. B.A., 1988, Sociology, University of Chicago

Experience:

Monica has been involved in gender and women's studies professionally since 1995, although her Ph. D. was in sociology, and her postdoctoral fellowship was in biomedical ethics.

Monica J. Casper. 1) Personal 2) University of Arizona

Interview Details:

Date- Monday, March 7th

Time- 1:30 p.m.
Location- Douglass Building Room 200W (office)

3. Bill Simmons

I'm sharing a google document with Dr. William Paul Simmons, who goes by Bill Simmons.

Title: 

-Associate Professor of GWS 

-Honors Interdisciplinary Faculty

-Author

Higher Ed. Degrees:

1.  Ph.D., 1996, Political Theory and American Politics, Louisiana State University
2. M.A., 1992, Political Science, Louisiana State University
3. B.A., 1987, Political Science and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Experience:

Bill has been teaching since 1997, working in the GWS department at the U of A since 2013, and

William Paul Simmons. 1) Personal 2) University of Arizona

Interview Details:

I will send Bill the questions before this Friday in a google doc.

Interview Questions:

1. I’m just beginning to delve into my major, but I’ve already noticed how broad of a field gender and women’s studies is. What kinds of research, in particular, do you conduct the most or what peaks your interest?
2. What is your brainstorming process like, in regards to research?
3. What is your favorite, or the main type of media you produce in your field?
4. Could you provide me with any examples, or point me in the right direction to find the best ones?
5. Do you ever work with non-textual based genres, such as podcasts, presentations at conferences, or other audio or visual?
6. Does social media play a role in your job? Do you think any genre conventions, or the audience, has changed with the advancement in technology and the social media wave?
7. When writing, what purpose or values do you have in mind that you try to communicate?
8. Who do you write for? Please name any internal and external audiences you have.  
9. What audience has been the most responsive to your work and who has been the most frustrating to connect with?
10. What are your go-to tools or software for different writing projects?
11. Is time management and procrastination ever a problem you encounter in writing professionally?
12. Do you have any favorite places to go and write? Any places where you dislike to write?
13. Is there anything about professional communication - in general or in your particular position - that you think students or young people just starting out in the field should know?
14. Would you be open to answering some follow-up questions (email)