All sorts of podcast genres are booming these days—including shows based on original academic research that cover history, environmentalism, religion, politics, and film. Producers Kelly Jones and Emily Gadek, who run the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab’s student documentary program, will walk through why making your research into a piece of publicly accessible art can make you a better researcher. Watch clips from past graduates’ work and learn about funded research opportunities with the RRD Lab’s student documentary program.
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Kelly Jones is a freelance producer and editor, currently working on Seizing Freedom (from Virginia Public Media and Stitcher). She helps UVA students produce documentaries for the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab. Jones used to be a producer for BackStory, which she joined after a brief and sordid affair with graduate-level philosophy in Guelph, Canada.
Emily Gadek spends her time producing Sacred & Profane, the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab’s podcast exploring the many ways religion shapes our daily lives. Previously, she was a producer for Virginia Humanities’ popular American history show, BackStory, and worked on WBEZ Chicago’s morning news show Eight Forty-Eight.
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