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Scholarly Communication
February 24, 2021
Writing in Disciplines
A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
Shyam Sharma
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. We talk about how mutually appreciative …
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East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
A Roundtable on the History of the Japanese Student Movement
A Discussion with Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Chelsea Szendi Schieder’s Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left and Naoko Koda’s The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1973: Managing a Free World provide new …
Indian Religions
February 24, 2021
Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
Michale P. Brunner
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Michael P. Brunner's Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Palgrave, 2020) explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a …
Academic Life
February 18, 2021
Faculty versus Administrative Positions
A Discussion with Karin Lewis
Karin Lewis
Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Academic Life
February 15, 2021
Pandemic and the Student Parent
A Conversation about Being a Graduate Student and Mother during a Global Pandemic
Brooke Lombardi
Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Academic Life
February 11, 2021
How to Navigate Mid-Career Choices as a Faculty Member
A Discussion with Vicki Baker
Vicki Baker
Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Academic Life
February 4, 2021
The Role of Community Colleges in Higher Education
A Discussion with Penny Wills
Penny Wills
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Academic Life
January 28, 2021
How to Work Toward Diversity and Inclusion in Campus Organizations
A Discussion with Crystal Byrd Farmer
Crystal Byrd Farmer
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Education
January 27, 2021
Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Andratesha Fritzgerald
Hosted by Christina Bosch
In the wake of 2020’s movements for Black Lives and exposed racial disparities in working-class deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions are grappling on a massive level with their …
Malcolm X and Black Nationalism
January 26, 2021
The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks
Rereading Readers
Cedric Burrows
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In this series, we delve into the background of Malcolm X's action and thought in the context …
Genocide Studies
January 18, 2021
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Hosted by Kelly McFall
I wish I had seen Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt's Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) six months ago. I taught a course in the fall titled …
Literary Studies
January 15, 2021
Teaching in Times of Crisis
Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Teaching in Times of Crisis: Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom (Routledge, 2021) explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the …
Academic Life
January 14, 2021
How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job
A Discussion with Christopher Caterine
Christopher Caterine
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Education
January 11, 2021
Walking with Strangers
Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise
Barbara Dennis
Hosted by Pengfei Zhao
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter Lang …
Food
January 11, 2021
Food Insecurity on Campus
Action and Intervention
Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady
Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
The new essay collection Food Insecurity on College Campuses edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady explores the widespread problem of food insecurity among college students and the …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 8, 2021
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and …
Academic Life
December 31, 2020
The Self-Care Stuff: Considering Whether to Stay or Drop Out
A Discussion with Miriam Martin
Miriam Martin
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Education
December 30, 2020
A Synthesizing Mind
A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory
Howard Gardner
Hosted by Jonathan Haber
The synthesizing mind is one that identifies a program or asks a question, pulls together information from across disciplines or creates new data through experimentation, and integrates everything into a …
History
December 24, 2020
The Amateur Hour
A History of College Teaching in America
Jonathan Zimmerman
Hosted by Lane Davis
Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) is the first full-length history of college teaching in the United States. It explores a paradox …
Academic Life
December 17, 2020
How To Use Your First Amendment Rights On Campus (and Off)
A Discussion with Will Creeley
Will Creeley
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
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