Latest Biological Podcast Episodes
Dr. Alice Diver
Adoptees On - June 21, 2024 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings284 | Dr. Alice Diver Today’s guest is the remarkable Dr. Alice Diver, law professor and outspoken adoptee advocate. Alice has written multiple journal articles and books on the topic of adoptee rights, including her latest, Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature: Orphanhood, Adoption, and the R...
Dr. Sabrina Sholts - The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
AnthroBiology Podcast - June 13, 2024 06:30 - 56 minutesDr. Sholts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History joins the show to discuss her new book, The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs. Dr. Sholts uses an anthropological lens to understand epidemics. She touches on One Health, historical and current ...
Cam Lee Small
Adoptees On - June 07, 2024 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings283 | Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC We have a returning guest, adoptee therapist Cam Lee Small back with us today. Cam has a brand new book out, The Adoptee’s Journey: From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment, published by a faith-based press. I recently got to meet Cam in real life, and he’s...
Dr. Mark Griffin - Teeth in pre-contact Native American groups
AnthroBiology Podcast - June 03, 2024 01:10 - 1 hourDr. Griffin of San Francisco State University joins the show to discuss dental caries and toothwear in pre-contact Native American groups. Books, articles, and media mentioned in this episode: Griffin, MC. (2014). Biocultural implication of oral pathology in an ancient central California pop...
Alison Larkin
Adoptees On - May 24, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings282 | Alison Larkin Alison Larkin is here today, and we are so so honoured to have her with us. It’s likely a lot of you already know Alison, but for those who are new to her, she is a stand-up comedian, voice artist, audiobook narrator, actress, producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author ...
Dr. Danny Wescott - Body Farm at Texas State
AnthroBiology Podcast - May 23, 2024 10:08 - 43 minutesDr. Wescott of Texas State University joins the show to discuss the Texas State body farm (Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State - FACTS) and the forensic research carried out there. Books, articles, and selected people mentioned in this episode: Dr. Wescott's ResearchGate profile Hag...
Janet Sherlund
Adoptees On - May 10, 2024 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings281 | Janet Sherlund Today we’re welcoming Janet Sherlund to the show! Janet is the author of the brand new memoir, Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me. Janet shares some of her story with us, including her challenging relationship with her adoptive mother, her struggl...
Svetlana Sandoval
Adoptees On - April 26, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings280 | Svetlana Sandoval We’re back, and I’m sick again, and my voice is only going to be like this for the intro because luckily I was healthy when I interviewed this week’s guest, Svetlana Sandoval. Svetlana is an international adoptee, adopted from Russia at about six months old. We talk abo...
Dr. Caroline Goodson & Dr. Trent Trombley - Medieval Teeth, Part 2
AnthroBiology Podcast - April 25, 2024 04:36 - 56 minutesDr. Goodson (Cambridge University) and Dr. Trombley (Augustana University) join forces on the show to discuss their bioarchaeological-historical collaboration to understand the Medieval mouth. Books, articles, and selected people mentioned in this episode: Medieval Mouths in Context: Biocult...
Reshma McClintock
Adoptees On - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings279 | Reshma McClintock Oh it is such a delight to get to share this interview with you. Reshma McClintock, the producer and subject of the film Calcutta is My Mother is back with us today. Reshma is a transracial adoptee from Calcutta, India, and this incredible film documents her return to C...
Adrian Wills
Adoptees On - March 29, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings278 | Adrian Wills Today’s guest is fellow Canadian, award-winning director and filmmaker, Adrian Wills. Adrian has a brand new documentary out called A Quiet Girl where get to follow his journey of a public search for his birth mother, and experience every new discovery along with him. Today ...
Dr. Trent Trombley - Medieval Teeth, Part 1
AnthroBiology Podcast - March 25, 2024 10:03 - 1 hourDr. Trent Trombley of Augustana University joins the show to talk about his research at Villamagna, a medieval settlement outside of Rome. He uses macroscopic analysis of teeth along with a few other methods to understand life in the past. Links mentioned in the show: Dr. Trombley's ResearchG...
John Gallaher, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - March 15, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings277 | John Gallaher, Ph.D. You’re in for a treat today, we have award-winning poet John Gallaher with us! John’s newest poetry collection, My Life in Brutalist Architecture releases this month and it’s his first collection focused in on his experience as an adopted person. Even though he was a...
Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen - Using Bioarchaeology to Understand Health
AnthroBiology Podcast - February 24, 2024 06:15 - 40 minutesDr. Clark Spencer Larsen of Ohio State joins the show to discuss his history in the field, bioarchaeology, and how we can use biological anthropology to understand human health in the past. Links mentioned in the show: Dr. Larsen's faculty page The past 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation...
Sanjay Pulver
Adoptees On - February 23, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings276 | Sanjay Pulver Today’s guest is Sanjay Pulver, an Indian adoptee who has become an outspoken adoptee advocate in recent years. We talk about the complexities of being adopted from an orphanage in a country that is not currently safe for him to return to as a queer trans man. We discuss th...
Sara Docan-Morgan, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - February 09, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings275 | Sara Docan-Morgan, Ph.D. Today’s guest is Dr. Sara Docan-Morgan, professor of communication studies and author of the book “In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family”. Sara shares some of her personal story, and then we dig into her qualitative research fr...
A Little Scheduling Update
Adoptees On - February 02, 2024 05:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsIf you'd like to be involved in the new show, you can email adopteesonadoption(at)gmail(dot)com with your skills pitch. Are you an audio producer? Investigative reporter? Narrative podcaster? I'd love to hear what you've got to bring to the table. Follow updates here: https://www.instagram.com...
Julian Washio-Collette
Adoptees On - January 26, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings274 | Julian Washio-Collette Today’s guest is Julian Washio-Collette, a writer and monastic spiritual seeker, whose story includes the rarity of being relinquished and adopted twice. Julian shares what he hears when someone says the term “forever family”, how building community was difficult h...
SunAh Laybourn, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - January 19, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings273 | SunAh Laybourn, Ph.D. We are so excited to welcome professor and sociologist Dr. SunAh Laybourn today! Sunah’s brand new book is called Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants and it is definitely one you’re going to want to add into your collection. Today we talk about ...
James Cagney
Adoptees On - January 12, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings272 | James Cagney Today’s guest is award-winning poet, James Cagney. Author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, James is known for his absolutely dynamic live poetry readings, and we are honoured with a reading in this very episode! We di...
Dr. Dan Benyshek - Placentophagy
AnthroBiology Podcast - January 03, 2024 16:15 - 1 hourDr. Daniel Benyshek of UNLV joins the show to discuss plancentophagy. Check out his lab page for more info on placentophagy. Note: There is a special addition at the end of this episode. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @Ant...
Healing Series: Ask an Adoptee Therapist with Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC
Adoptees On - December 15, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings271 | Healing Series: Ask an Adoptee Therapist with Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC Today’s episode is our last one before our holiday break. We’ll be back with brand-new weekly episodes on January 12, 2024. We wanted to bring you a Healing Series episode to make sure we all had a little extra sup...
Sara Easterly
Adoptees On - December 08, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings270 | Sara Easterly Sara Easterly is back with us, she’s the author of Searching for Mom and the founder of Adoptee Voices. Today we’re talking about how Sara became friends with an adoptive mother and a birth mother in order to write a book called Adoption Unfiltered. It’s a hard conversation...
Dr. Liz DeBetta
Adoptees On - December 01, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings269 | Dr. Liz DeBetta Today we welcome back Dr. Liz DeBetta, author of Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal: Migrating Toward Wholeness. Liz shares some reunion updates with us, including some very sad news about her sister. We discuss what lead her to choose to remain childfree. And of course, ...
Kimberly McKee, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - November 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings268 | Kimberly McKee, Ph.D. We are so excited to host critical adoption studies scholar, Dr. Kimberly McKee. She’s the author of the impactful book Disrupting Kinship, and her brand new release is Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood. We talk about...
Jessica Hairston
Adoptees On - November 17, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings267 | Jessica Hairston Today our guest is poet Jessica Hairston, author of Power of Our Wombs. Jessica shares her complex origin story, where both of her biological parents were struggling with addiction when she was born, apprehended and adopted soon after. We talk about “the traveling trauma...
Susan Kiyo Ito
Adoptees On - November 10, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings266 | Susan Kiyo Ito Today’s guest is the indomitable Susan Kiyo Ito. She has been writing, advocating, and leading in the adoptee community for decades and we are all the richer for it. Susan’s brand new memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, has just been released and it is fantastic. We talk ab...
Louise and Sarah
Adoptees On - November 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings265 | Louise & Sarah You might know today’s guests and recognize their voices from their podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. Louise Browne and Sarah Reinhardt are here! Today we hear about how their friendship started, they dish about some of the fights they’ve had and how they’ve sustained t...
Healing Series - Adoptee Remembrance Day
Adoptees On - October 27, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings264 | Healing Series: Adoptee Remembrance Day Adoptee Remembrance Day was first commemorated on October 30, 2020. We’ve done a variety of episodes over the last few years beginning in 2020 with an interview with the founder of Adoptee Remembrance Day, Pamela Karanova. We’ve had listeners submi...
Stefany Valentine - When We Become Ours
Adoptees On - October 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings263 | Stefany Valentine - When We Become Ours Today’s episode is a celebration for When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology which releases on October 24, 2023. The first of its kind, edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, with fifteen adoptee authors is cause for celebration. We’re goin...
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