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Higher Education
Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.
April 14, 2024
The Lab Book
A hybrid lab functions in the space between institutions and infrastructure, creating new opportunities for understanding their interconnection. Howev…
April 9, 2024
Being Black in the Ivory
When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people aff…
April 9, 2024
Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despit…
April 9, 2024
A History of Modern Linguistics
Ingrid Piller speaks with James McElvenny about his new book A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II (Edinburgh UP, 2024)…
April 3, 2024
Crip Spacetime
In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, p…
March 30, 2024
The Experimental Library
Using techniques garnered from startups and quickly evolving technology companies, in The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forwa…
March 28, 2024
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education
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…
March 25, 2024
Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
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 …
March 24, 2024
The Activist Academic
How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historically…
March 23, 2024
Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse
Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pandem…
March 21, 2024
Is Grad School for Me?
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…
March 21, 2024
Slouch
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…
March 20, 2024
Love, Money, and Parenting
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, America…
March 20, 2024
Dreams of Flight
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in t…
March 13, 2024
No Machos Or Pop Stars
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…
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 (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an ea…
March 11, 2024
Critical Campus Sustainabilities
In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envir…
March 7, 2024
Who Owns Religion?
In Who Owns Religion?: Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century (U Chicago Press, 2019), scholar and noted university administrator La…
March 5, 2024
Freedom in the Academy
Finishing off our series on freedom of speech, renowned historian Niall Ferguson discusses ideological conflict both between America and China and wit…