Who is Amplify Podcast Network?
The Amplify Podcast Network is on a mission to revolutionize scholarship and to create communities of support for podcasters who want to change the world. Amplify is home for creative soundworks rooted in serious scholarship, where accessible, sustainable preservation and publication are central to our work. Amplify supports the creation of scholarship that contributes to collective, public knowledge, born of research across the disciplines and interdisciplines of the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on anti-racism, feminist social justice, and community-building. Amplify podcasts explicitly or implicitly engage with the question of what constitutes scholarship by pushing at boundaries, whether they are formal, methodological, theoretical, or otherwise.
Our Mission
The SSHRC-funded Amplify Podcast Network encourages collaboration and experimentation via the medium of scholarly podcasting, with a focus on podcasts committed to anti-racism, feminist social justice, and community-building. We’re committed to supporting the creation of new scholarly podcasts, while also building the infrastructure that will support them, from new peer review processes to digital preservation tools to open access guides to making your own podcast.
Amplify represents scholarship that contributes to collective, public knowledge, born of research across the many disciplines and interdisciplines that constitute humanities and social sciences research. Our podcasts explicitly or implicitly engage with the question of what constitutes scholarship by pushing at boundaries, whether they are formal, methodological, theoretical, or otherwise.
Ready to hear more? Listen in on what we’re up to in the Amplified audio blog series!
Want to join the network? Read our Mandate and Submit a Podcast Proposal.
Meet the Team
Hannah McGregor
Co-Director
Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian […]
Siobhan McMenemy
Co–Director
Siobhan McMenemy is Senior Editor at WLU Press. She has worked in scholarly publishing for over twenty years, during which time she has built book lists and edited scholarship in the […]
Stacey Copeland
Co-Director and Supervising Producer
Stacey Copeland is a Joseph-Bombardier (SSHRC-CGS) Ph.D. alum of Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication [….]
Brenna Clarke Gray
Co-Applicant, Podcaster
Brenna Clarke Gray is Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University, where her research interests include the history and future of open tenure processes and […]
María Alvarez Malvido + Kendra Cowley
Collaborators, Podcasters
Kendra (she/her) and Maria (she/her) met as research assistants on a project at the University of Alberta. The seeds for an inevitable friendship were sown online […]
Daniel Heath Justice
Co-Applicant, Podcaster
Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Canada Research Chair […]
Jason Camlot
Collaborator
Jason Camlot’s critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic […]
Kim Fox
Editorial Board Member
Kim Fox is a professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Cairo […]
Robert Cassanello
Editorial Board Member
Robert Cassanello is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is a social historian interested in public history. His book To Render Invisible won the 2014 […]
