This episode is an interview with Andrew Szarejko and Sibel Oktay. Andrew is a Donald R. Beall defense fellow in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Sibel Oktay is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies and Director of the School of Politics and International Affairs at the University of Illinois Springfield in the US.

Andrew is the editor and Sibel a contributor to Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching International Relations amid COVID-19 (2022) from Palgrave Macmillan.

Our conversation covers

· Lessons from the adaptations we all had to make to respond to the disruptions of the COVID pandemic

· How disciplinary organizations can help support their members in the face of such disruptions

· How to manage the demands of our profession to make the space to invest in one’s teaching.