Higher Education

Higher Education

episodes

Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Discussion with Claire Goldstene and Maria Maisto

March 28, 2024

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

Claire Goldstene and Maria Maisto

Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay coll…

John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI

March 25, 2024

Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI

John Warner
Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner …

Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)

March 24, 2024

The Activist Academic

Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere
Hosted by Jane Richards

How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historically…

Mary K. Bolin, "Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse: The Idea of a Library" (Chandos, 2022)

March 23, 2024

Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse

Mary K. Bolin
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pandem…

Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students

March 21, 2024

Is Grad School for Me?

Yvette Martínez-Vu and Miroslava Chavez-Garcia

Today’s book is: Is Grad School for Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students (U California Press, 2024), by Dr. Yvette Ma…

Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

March 21, 2024

Slouch

Beth Linker
Hosted by Mark Klobas

In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college stude…

Fran Martin, "Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West" (Duke UP, 2021)

March 20, 2024

Dreams of Flight

Fran Martin
Hosted by Yadong Li

Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in t…

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)

March 20, 2024

Love, Money, and Parenting

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, America…

Gavin Butt, "No Machos Or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk" (Duke UP, 2022)

March 13, 2024

No Machos Or Pop Stars

Gavin Butt
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How do art schools influence music? In No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Duke UP, 2022), Gavin Butt, a Professor of Fin…

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

March 13, 2024

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

Steven D. Levitt
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an ea…

Flora Lu and Emily Murai, "Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education" (Springer, 2023)

March 11, 2024

Critical Campus Sustainabilities

Flora Lu and Emily Murai

In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envir…

Laurie L. Patton, "Who Owns Religion?: Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

March 7, 2024

Who Owns Religion?

Laurie L. Patton
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

In Who Owns Religion?: Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century (U Chicago Press, 2019), scholar and noted university administrator La…

Freedom in the Academy: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson

March 5, 2024

Freedom in the Academy

Niall Ferguson
Hosted by Annika Nordquist

Finishing off our series on freedom of speech, renowned historian Niall Ferguson discusses ideological conflict both between America and China and wit…

Mimi Khúc, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" (Duke UP, 2023)

March 3, 2024

dear elia

Mimi Khúc
Hosted by Julia Lee

Mimi Khúc is a PhD, writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is currently the Co-Editor of The Asian American Literary Review and an adjunc…

Get PhDone! Proven Strategies for Tackling Your Writing Roadblocks

February 29, 2024

Get PhDone! Proven Strategies for Tackling Your Writing Roadblocks

Briana Barner

Are you facing writing roadblocks? There are many guides on how to make your writing match academic standards, so why aren’t there any on how to make …

How to Teach TESOL Ethically in an English-Dominant World

February 20, 2024

How to Teach TESOL Ethically in an English-Dominant World

Ingrid Piller

Carla Chamberlin and Mak Khan speak with Ingrid Piller about linguistic diversity and social justice. We discuss whether US native speakers of Englis…

Linguistic Diversity in Education: A Discussion with Ingrid Gogolin

February 17, 2024

Linguistic Diversity in Education

Ingrid Gogolin

Hanna Torsh speaks with Ingrid Gogolin about linguistic diversity in education. Why is linguistic diversity important in creating educational equity?…

Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)

February 14, 2024

The Discourse of Scholarly Communication

Patrick Gamsby
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (Lexington Books, 2023) examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationship…

Daniel Druckman, "Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement" (Routledge, 2023)

February 11, 2024

Negotiation, Identity and Justice

Daniel Druckman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Containing research conducted and published over a half century, Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement (Routledge, 2023) by Dr. Dan…

Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)

February 11, 2024

The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs

Richard A. Detweiler
Hosted by David Finegold

We speak with Richard Detweiler about his new book The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment (MIT Press, 2021)…