Higher Education

Higher Education

episodes

Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.

Bryan Alexander, "Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

June 28, 2026

Peak Higher Ed

Bryan Alexander
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

Over the past decade, American colleges and universities have seen enrollment decline, campuses close, programs cut, faculty and staff laid off, and p…

Andrew J. Hoffman, "Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism" (Stanford Business Books, 2025)

June 27, 2026

Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market

Andrew J. Hoffman
Hosted by Alfred Marcus

Today's business schools were designed for a world that no longer exists. Capitalism raised the standard of living for billions of people over the pas…

Introducing Periodically: A UC Press Journals Podcast with Journals Director David Famiano

June 25, 2026

Introducing Periodically

David Famiano
Hosted by Jessica Chesnutt

1. A complete list of University of California Press journals is available at UC Press Journals 2. Clare E. B. Cannon; Advancing sustainable transit…

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest

June 25, 2026

The Honesty Crisis

Christian B. Miller

Research shows that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and unders…

Jonathan Daly, "The Man Who Knew Russia: Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold Warrior" (Stanford UP, 2025)

June 21, 2026

The Man Who Knew Russia

Jonathan Daly
Hosted by Erika Monahan

He’s been called the man academics love to hate. One time, when the author disclosed that he worked with Pipes, the colleague responded, “I will forgi…

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #2

June 21, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Chenjerai Kumanyika, Vinson Cunningham, and Julia Barton

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober

June 17, 2026

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks

Josiah Ober
Hosted by Ryan Shinkel

American democracy is in a period of crisis, so it seems natural to look back to its origins. So here in Episode 10 of Season 5, I interview Professor…

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1

June 17, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Benjamen Walker, Mara Mills, and Fanny Gribenski

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…

Fredrik Saxegaard, Mia Lövheim, and Geir Afdal eds. "Doctoral Supervision Across Boundaries" (Scandinavian UP, 2026)

June 16, 2026

Doctoral Supervision Across Boundaries

Fredrik Saxegaard, Mia Lövheim, and Geir Afdal eds.
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri

What does doctoral supervision actually look like in contemporary academia? In this NBN episode, Fredrik Saxegaard discusses the open-access book Doc…

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

June 11, 2026

Can I Say That

Poornima Luthra

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how y…

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)

June 8, 2026

From the Margins

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds.
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri

In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant A…

On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship

June 2, 2026

On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship

Ronald L. Jackson

Wide ranging interview with Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II, Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies, the University of Miami. Interview expl…

Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

May 31, 2026

Race, Class, and Affirmative Action

Julie J. Park
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era (Harvard Education Press, 2026), Julie J. Park offers deft analysis of the cha…

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Campus Whisper Networks

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors (Rutgers University Press, 2026) examines how personal knowledge about student sexu…

Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri, "Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future" (Ibidem Press, 2025)

May 27, 2026

Intellectual Self-Destruction

Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri
Hosted by Drora Arussy

In my recent conversation with Sittig, we explored her co-authored book Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future (Ibidem Pr…

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)

May 23, 2026

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds.
Hosted by Daniel Moran

A guide for today’s classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-chal…

End of An Academic Dream

May 21, 2026

End of An Academic Dream

Fidan Cheikosman

Why do we build our sense of self around our academic work? What does it mean to pivot away from campus jobs to the alt-ac world? How does increasing …

Reflection-In-Motion

May 14, 2026

Reflection-In-Motion

Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday

Reflection-in-Motion: Reimagining Reflection in the Writing Classroom (Utah State UP, 2025) considers how reflective practice is embedded in daily cou…

Fabio Rojas, "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline" (JHU Press, 2010)

May 13, 2026

From Black Power to Black Studies

Fabio Rojas

The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential politica…

Rachel Grace Newman, "The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite" (U California Press, 2026)

May 10, 2026

The Future in Their Hands

Rachel Grace Newman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite (U California Press, 2026), by Dr. Rachel Grace Newman is a deep history of the poli…