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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 …