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Higher Education
Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.
April 17, 2026
Humanities Theory
Humanities Theory (Oxford UP, 2026) pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a …
April 17, 2026
Radio ReOrient 14:3: Islamophobia in the Academy and the ‘Everyday’, with Izram Chaudry, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke with Dr Izram Chaudry about his recent report (written with Dr Yunis Alam) regarding Islamophobi…
April 16, 2026
The Case for Career Services
What exactly is career services? If you don’t know, you aren’t alone. Most of us operate from a limited or outdated idea of what career services offer…
April 15, 2026
Ambitious and Anxious
In Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education (Columbia UP, 2020), sociologist Yingyi Ma of…
April 13, 2026
The AI Con
In this episode, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss the looming social, cultural, and knowledge catas…
April 12, 2026
The Joyful Online Teacher
The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience--for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teach…
April 7, 2026
The Public Scholar
Public scholarship is one of those things that most academics are interested in, but unfortunately for them, they don't know how to actually get start…
April 1, 2026
Indology in Canada Conference
Introducing a new conference to showcase the breadth and vitality of Canadian research on premodern India. We discuss the vision behind the conference…
March 17, 2026
GenAI and Higher Education
GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2026) provides practical guidance for higher education professionals looking …
March 16, 2026
Upper Caste Liberalism
This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, abo…
March 15, 2026
Quiet Methodologies
What would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question th…
March 14, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 13, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 13, 2026
Options for Success
Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a transformati…
March 12, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 8, 2026
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designin…
March 7, 2026
Nepal's Dalits in Transition
What do political democracy and social hierarchy do to each other? For too long Nepal's Dalits have been marginalized, not just socially, economicall…
March 6, 2026
The Case Against Education
Today I’m speaking with economist Bryan Caplan about education and bullshit, with a particular focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the …
February 26, 2026
Preacher, Teacher, and Founder
Madison’s Notes is back and with a new host, Ryan Shinkel. In this episode to start off Season 5, I interview Dr. Kevin DeYoung, a popular author, P…
February 26, 2026
A Light in the Tower
A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist, and provides detailed advice for how…