The Social Academic with Jennifer van Alstyne | Online Presence for Professors

Are you an academic open to making an impact with your research in creative ways? Dr. Walter Greason is back on The Social Academic podcast with artist, Tim Fielder.They created The Graphic History of Hip Hop, a graphic novel taking the education sector by storm. When I asked, "did you expect this kind of response from your book?" It was a definite no. The ripple effect of engagement and impact The Graphic History of Hip Hop is creating for students is inspiring."Hip Hop isn’t just beats and rhymes… it’s a movement that fought to redefine the times," --Graphic History CompanyThe Graphic History of Hip Hop with Walter Greason and Tim Fielderhttps://theacademicdesigner.com/2025/graphic-history-of-hip-hop-walter-greason-tim-fielder/Read bios for Walter Greason and Tim Fielder https://theacademicdesigner.com/2025/graphic-history-of-hip-hop-walter-greason-tim-fielder/#biosAbout The Graphic History of Hip Hop, vol. 1 https://www.graphichistorycompany.com/graphichistoryofhiphopThis is The Social Academic podcast. I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help academics feel confident when showing up online. Let's build a strong digital footprint for your academic life through social media, websites, and bio writing.https://theacademicdesigner.com----------------------------------------Schedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferOnline presence services for academics https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/Let’s connect on social media LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/jennifervanalstyne/Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/jenvanalstyne.bsky.socialInstagram https://instagram.com/HigherEdPX https://x.com/HigherEdPRFacebook https://facebook.com/higheredprThreads https://www.threads.net/@higheredprYouTube https://youtube.com/@higheredpr

How can we help new readers find your words? How can you help your book have a legacy? Website designer / book designer HR Hegnauer joins me for this featured interview. HR has designed over 350 books, creating award-winning covers and interiors for both print and ebook editions. She's also an expert website designer who helps authors create a lasting presence for their writing online. Let's talk about author websites with HR Hegnauer 📚https://theacademicdesigner.com/2025/author-websites-with-hr-hegnauer/I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help professors feel confident when showing up online. I work with faculty and researchers 1-on-1 to build you a strong online presence that shares your teaching, research, and leadership. Welcome to The Social Academic YouTube channel, an extension of my blog/podcast about your online presence as a professor or researcher.HR Hegnauer is a designer, writer, and creative professional specializing in book and web design for authors, independent publishers, and artists. As the owner of a design studio, HR has designed over 350 books, creating award-winning covers and interiors for both print and ebook editions. She is recognized for her website design as a Squarespace Circle Gold Level Member, ranking in the top 8% of over 100,000 professional Squarespace designers worldwide. With over a decade of web design experience, she builds engaging, intuitive websites that help authors not only establish but also grow their digital presence.She is the author of When the Bird is Not a Human (Subito Press) and Sir (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and holds an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, where she has also taught in the Summer Writing Program. With an MBA from the University of Denver, HR brings a unique blend of artistic sensibility and strategic expertise to her work. Her approach is highly collaborative, ensuring that every project—whether a book or website—amplifies the unique voice of its creator.https://hrhegnauer.comVisit The Social Academic blog https://theacademicdesigner.com/blog/Schedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferHere's ways we can work together https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/

Join me and Jennifer Polk, PhD for a LIVE conversation about networking for academics. We're going to be talking about how to network. Dr. Polk will share some common networking misconceptions.#Networking #AcademiaThis live originally appeared on The Social Academic YouTube in August 2020.I'm Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR), welcome to The Social Academic where I share advice about managing your online presence. And I chat with cool grad students, researchers, and faculty like you. Find more content on The Social Academic blog at https://theacademicdesigner.com/blogJennifer Polk, PhD (@FromPhDtoLife), is an entrepreneur, career coach, and expert on PhD careers. She launched From PhD to Life, a career coaching and speaking business, in 2013, and has worked 1-on-1 and in groups with graduate students and doctoral degree holders based in Canada, the United States, the UK, Australia, and elsewhere. Jen writes on issues related to graduate education and career outcomes for doctoral-degree holders. She is also a guest speaker on university campuses and at academic and professional conferences throughout North America and beyond. Her University Affairs blog is a three-time gold winner from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Jen earned her PhD in history from the University of Toronto. Follow her on Twitter at @FromPhDtoLife. Visit Dr. Polk's website https://fromphdtolife.com/Join her free career training for PhDs https://fromphdtolife.com/phd-job-search-help/-----------------------------------------More from The Academic Designer LLCSchedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jennifer-----------------------------------------Social MediaLinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/jennifervanalstyne/X https://twitter.com/HigherEdPRInstagram https://instagram.com/HigherEdPRFacebook https://www.facebook.com/HigherEdPRThreads https://threads.net/@HigherEdPRBluesky

Brittany Trinh returns to The Social Academic featured interview series. We talk about how her thinking on websites for professors, scientists, and researchers has changed. And, about how life has changed now that she's back in grad school. Plus, hear about our Team VIP Day service for research lab websites.https://theacademicdesigner.com/2025/website-design-for-academics-and-research-labs-with-brittany-trinh/0:00 Meet Brittany2:35 Online presence as a graduate student11:29 Beyond Your Science, a podcast for grad students and early career scientists13:17 How Brittany's thinking about academic websites has changed20:04 Updating her personal website22:19 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest returns in 202524:55 Research Lab and Research Group WebsitesBrittany Trinh is a Vietnamese-American website designer and chemist. She helps enterprising scientists, science communicators, and academic entrepreneurs create a website that integrates your creativity and expertise. Brittany knows when your website reflects the awesome things you do within and beyond STEM, it helps you forge your own path.She hosts the Beyond Your Science Podcast, where she talks about integrating science, entrepreneurship, and creativity within and beyond STEM, from her own experiences and interviews with other scientists and small-business owners. Listen to the Beyond Your Science PodcastBrittany is a PhD candidate in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on synthesizing high-impact polymers in a more eco-friendly way and leveraging their tough mechanical properties into industrial applications.She received her BS in Chemistry with a minor in Psychology from the University of Houston.When she’s not in the lab, she’s probably playing piano or violin, watching slice-of-life anime, or cooking some kind of noodle.https://brittanytrinh.com/I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). At The Academic Designer LLC, I help professors feel confident when showing up online. I work with faculty and researchers 1-on-1 to build you a strong online presence that shares your teaching, research, and leadership.This is The Social Academic podcast an extension of my blog about managing your online presence in Higher Education.Resources mentioned in this episodeHow to write a powerful conference speaker bio https://youtu.be/b8oTNAT2PBM?si=EVdoH0UBByKYGUgvSTEM Websites with Brittany Trinh (featured interview on The Social Academic in 2020) https://youtu.be/CD-49VqCEXc?si=45IQ4nQLFDHWiTt5Visit my website https://theacademicdesigner.comSchedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jennifer

We Can See Into Another Place: Mile-High Writers on Social Justice (The Bookies Press and Bower House 2024) is a multi-genre anthology by writers and faculty at the Mile High MFA Program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. In this featured interview, anthology editor Dr. Andrea Rexilius joins me to talk about social justice, radical imagination, and the power of storytelling.Includes a short excerpt from Steven Dunn's book on Nas.About the book: We Can See Into Another PlaceIn this thought-provoking, multi-genre anthology, editor Andrea Rexilius gathers some of Denver’s most inspiring literary voices to explore the nuances of social justice with unflinching candor. Through comic panels, short stories, nonfiction essays, plays and poetry, the collection beautifully illustrates how the written word, in all its forms, can impart healing and empower readers to seek social change.Anthology contributors include:Olivia AbtahiR. Alan BrooksSteven DunnCarolina EbeidSteven Cole HughesKristen IversenTraci L. JonesTarashea NesbitLori OstlundKhadijah QueenJenny ShankSuzi Q. SmithChristine SneedMathangi SubramanianAddie TsaiDenise VegaRachel WeaverErika T. WurthDavid HeskaWanbli WeidenCo-published with The Bookies Press (formerly Book Bar Press)https://www.bowerhousebooks.com/shop/we-can-see-into-another-place/Dr. Andrea Rexilius is the author of Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks, Séance (Coconut Books, 2014), To Be Human (Horseless Press, 2010), and Afterworld (above/ground press, 2020).She earned an MFA in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the program director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.https://www.andrearexilius.net/I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help academics feel confident when showing up online. I work with faculty, researchers, and graduate students on their online presence. You can shares your teaching, research, writing, and leadership. This is The Social Academic podcast, an extension of my blog about managing your online presence in Higher Education.https://theacademicdesigner.comLet's build your digital footprint for your academic life through social media, websites, and bio writing.Schedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferView services https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/

Dr. Martha Kenney knows your time is precious. She cares deeply about employee engagement, burnout prevention, work-life balance and career development amongst professional women. That’s why she works with women in medicine and beyond find work-life alignment. She helps women gain clarity on who you are, what you want in life, and what truly matters to you.She’s also an Assistant Professor who researches mechanisms of chronic pain in young adults who are living with sickle cell disease. I’m delighted to share this conversation with Dr. Martha Kenney in this featured interview on The Social Academic.Watch on YouTube.This is The Social Academic podcast. I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help academics feel confident when showing up online.Let's build your digital footprint for your academic life through social media, websites, and bio writing.Visit my website https://theacademicdesigner.comSchedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferView services https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/

Introducing Dr. Monica Cox, professor and change maker for equity in the workplace Jennifer: I’m so excited to feature Dr. Monica Cox, a professor, author, and change maker. We talk about her new book, Never Defeated: Nine Lessons from the Workplace Front Lines. Bio for Monica Cox, PhDI am an academic and a professor, an engineering education professor. I’m also a former administrator and I am an entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of STEMinent, LLC, which offers a variety of offerings that have an umbrella of helping people to emerge whole and bold and strong in the workplace, or whichever environment they so choose. That's me in a nutshell.Read on The Social Academic blog.Watch on YouTube.This is The Social Academic podcast. I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help academics feel confident when showing up online.Let's build your digital footprint for your academic life through social media, websites, and bio writing.Visit my website https://theacademicdesigner.comSchedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferView services https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/

LinkedIn is a valuable platform for academics beyond job searching. It offers networking opportunities with colleagues, collaborators, research funders, and policymakers. A detailed profile and personalized connections enhance its effectiveness. It's a good investment of time for academics.

Carlotta Berry, PhD a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics and owner of NoireSTEMinist, is dedicated to diversifying STEM through her Black STEM romance novels and extensive online presence. She creates her own GIFs, uses AI art to create visual representations for black and brown girls playing with robots, has websites, and is on social media.This is The Social Academic podcast. I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help academics feel confident when showing up online.Let's build your digital footprint for your academic life through social media, websites, and bio writing.Visit my website https://theacademicdesigner.comSchedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence ✨️ https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferView services https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/

What should go on my research lab website? Hi everyone! My name is Jennifer van Alstyne. Welcome to The Social Academic, my blog/podcast about managing your online presence in academia.Today I want to talk about what is a research lab website? And, why should I have one?This is The Social Academic podcast. I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I help academics feel confident when showing up online.Let's build your digital footprint for your academic life through social media, websites, and bio writing.Visit my website https://theacademicdesigner.comSchedule a no pressure Zoom call with Jennifer to talk about working together 1-on-1 on your online presence 🌟https://higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-jenniferView services https://theacademicdesigner.com/services/