Higher Education

Higher Education

episodes

Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.

US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen

July 18, 2026

US 250

Peter John Loewen, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University

This week on Democracy Dialogues, Rachel Beatty Riedl speaks with Peter John Loewen to reflect on the 250th anniversary of US independence. They disc…

Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

July 16, 2026

Heart-Centered Connections

Niki Elliott

Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive is a transformative guide for working wi…

Sara Farhan, "Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

July 12, 2026

Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959

Sara Farhan
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) by Dr. Sara Farhan offers a rigorous social and cu…

Audio and Ideas, Panel #4

July 8, 2026

Audio and Ideas, Panel #4

Jody Avirgan, Sara McCrea, Caleb Zakarin, 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…

Alexandre Frenette, "Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy" (Princeton UP, 2026)

July 6, 2026

Blame the Intern

Alexandre Frenette
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Who gets to be a creative worker? In Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy, (Princeton University Press, 2026) Alexandre Frene…

Audio and Ideas Panel #3

July 3, 2026

Audio and Ideas Panel #3

Allison Carruth and Ellen Horne

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…

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

July 3, 2026

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

Naomi Seidman, Kenneth Moss, and Jeffrey Shandler
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Max Weinreich spent the entirety of his adult life building YIVO and the field of Yiddish Studies. A 'convert' to the cause of Yiddishism in his adole…

Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY, 2026)

July 2, 2026

NYC Open Data Student Gallery

Christian Martinez
Hosted by Gregory McNiff

About NYC Open Data During the Fall 2025 semester, students in the M.S. program in Psychological Research at Brooklyn College completed the inaugural…

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, Panel #2

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, Panel #1

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…