New Books Network

Scholarly Communication August 5, 2022

Covering Higher Ed

A Chat with Sara Custer of Times Higher Education

Sara Custer

Hosted by Avi Staiman

A special opportunity to hear from Sara Custer, editor of The Campus (Times Higher Education), about the role of journalism and reporting in higher education. Avi and Sara cover topics …

Economics August 4, 2022

The Effect

An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

Nick Huntington-Klein

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and …

Political Science August 4, 2022

The Knowledge Polity

Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences

Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith

Hosted by Lilly Goren

Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …

Anthropology August 4, 2022

Academic Outsider

Stories of Exclusion and Hope

Victoria Reyes

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …

Education August 3, 2022

Other People's Colleges

The Origins of American Higher Education Reform

Ethan W. Ris

Hosted by Joao Souto-Maior

For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges: The …

Education August 3, 2022

Why They Hate Us

How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education

Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz

Hosted by Autumn Wilke

Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) examines how racist political rhetoric has created damaging and dangerous conditions for Students of Color in schools …

Scholarly Communication August 2, 2022

Writing STEAM

Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities

Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assistant Professor of Communication and Coordinator of Technical and …

How to Be Wrong July 29, 2022

Humility and the Academic Administrator

A Conversation with Ottawa University Chancellor William Tsutsui

William Tsutsui

Hosted by John Traphagan

This episode of How To Be Wrong explores questions of leadership and humility with Dr. Bill Tsutsui, Chancellor and Professor of History at Ottawa University, a private comprehensive university with …

Darts & Letters July 29, 2022

The Science Wars

Post-Truth and the Nature of Science

Hosted by Gordon Katic

Welcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited …

Education July 28, 2022

The Privileged Poor

How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

Anthony Abraham Jack

Hosted by Joao Souto-Maior

The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it …

Darts & Letters July 27, 2022

Koch Block My Campus

How Big Money Corrupts Academia

James Turk

Hosted by Gordon Katic

Why is so much right-wing money being funnelled at such a furious pace into universities across the US? Libertarian-minded billionaires like the Kochs and their partners have funded scholars and …

Education July 27, 2022

Missions Impossible

Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

John Waterbury

Hosted by Shu Cao Mo

John Waterbury's book Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (American U in Cairo Press, 2020) is a rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab world …

Education July 27, 2022

Safe Enough Spaces

A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses

Michael S. Roth

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out …

Darts & Letters July 26, 2022

The Grift of Meritocracy

All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)

Catherine Liu

Hosted by Gordon Katic

Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do to get ahead or to …

Politics July 25, 2022

It's Not Free Speech

Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth

Hosted by Catriona Gold

The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have …

Scholarly Communication July 25, 2022

Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help

A Discussion with Benjamin Todd of "80,000 Hours"

Benjamin Todd

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Benjamin Todd is the president and co-founder of …

The Future of Higher Education July 22, 2022

The Real World of College

What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be

Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner

Hosted by Galina Limorenko

For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,00 …

Academic Life July 21, 2022

The Cornell Sweatshirt Tweet

A Discussion with Ruby C. Tapia

Ruby C. Tapia

Hosted by Christina Gessler

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Ruby Tapia’s viral Cornell sweatshirt tweet. How witnessing domestic violence, and the aftermath of her father’s suicide, influenced …

Economics July 21, 2022

Doing Economics

What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t

Marc F. Bellemare

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen

Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past and the methods needed to do …

The Future of Higher Education July 11, 2022

Mergers in Higher Education

A Discussion with Bryon Grigsby (President of Moravian University) and David Rowe (Interim President of Lancaster Theological Seminary)

Bryon Grigsby and David Rowe

Hosted by David Finegold

This episode is the latest in the series of cases we’ve profiled focusing on mergers within higher education. We speak with Bryon Grigsby, President of Moravian University and David Rowe …