Education

Education

episodes

Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Helmut Schuster and David Oxley, "Artificial Death of a Career: A Tale of Professional Obsolescence and How to Avoid It" (Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2025)

March 19, 2026

Artificial Death of a Career

Helmut Schuster and David Oxley
Hosted by John Gibbs

How do you advance your career when AI is rewriting the rules of success? As AI and automation revolutionize the global workforce, professionals ever…

Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

March 17, 2026

GenAI and Higher Education

Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth

GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2026) provides practical guidance for higher education professionals looking …

Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana

March 16, 2026

Upper Caste Liberalism

Ravikant Kisana

This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, abo…

Suzanne Bost, "Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities" (U Minnesota Press)

March 15, 2026

Quiet Methodologies

Suzanne Bost
Hosted by Alix Beeston

What would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question th…

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson

March 14, 2026

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton

March 13, 2026

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2

Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…

Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)

March 7, 2026

Sesame Street Around the World

Tamara Kay and Andrew W Mellon Endowed Chair in Sociology Tamara Kay
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Given the sometimes extraordinary politicization of culture, it is surprising that Sesame Street has gained acceptance and legitimacy in more than fif…

Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education

March 6, 2026

The Case Against Education

Bryan Caplan
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with economist Bryan Caplan about education and bullshit, with a particular focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the …

A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education

February 26, 2026

A Light in the Tower

Katie Rose Guest Pryal

A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist, and provides detailed advice for how…

Bin Chen, "Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China: Education, Frontier Politics, and Nation-State" (Routledge, 2025)

February 16, 2026

Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China

Bin Chen
Hosted by Yadong Li

Chen examines the Chinese Nationalist government's distinctive support for private Muslim teachers schools between the 1920s and 1940s, and explores t…

Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)

February 15, 2026

The Highest Exam

Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li with Claire Cousineau
Hosted by Peter Lorentzen

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (Harvard UP, 2025), provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China's high-stakes colle…

Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, genre, et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970)" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024)

February 11, 2026

Une si longue course

Claire Nicolas
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Claire Nicolas, a chercheuse du Fonds National Suisse at Basel University, a holder of a prestigious Ambizione Research Grant, …

Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them

February 5, 2026

Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them

Mara Casey Tieken

Rural students are unlikely to pursue degrees from private, selective schools. Why? And what happens to the handful of rural students who do attend el…

Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

February 5, 2026

Overinvested

Nina Bandelj
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In t…

Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)

February 2, 2026

On Pedantry

Arnoud S. Q. Visser
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downr…

John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)

January 31, 2026

Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)

John L. Rudolph
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Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023). Few people question the importance of sc…

Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs:  How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

January 15, 2026

Subtle Webs

Jose Eos Trinidad
Hosted by Joao Souto-Maior

In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have create…

Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)

January 12, 2026

Scholarly Podcasting

Ian M. Cook
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what, …

Jo Mackiewicz, "Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace" (Springer, 2025)

January 9, 2026

Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace

Jo Mackiewicz
Hosted by Thomas Discenna

This open access book describes and explains a fifty-year-old woman’s process of developing trade competences. Drawing from daily journal entries, pho…

Terra Jacobson and Spencer Brayton, "Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success" (ACRL, 2025)

January 7, 2026

Valuing the Community College Library:

Terra Jacobson and Spencer Brayton
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting community…