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Academic Life August 12, 2021

The Book Proposal Book

A Guide for Scholarly Authors

Laura Portwood-Stacer

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 on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we’d bring on an expert about something? DM us your suggestion on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN. In this episode you’ll hear …
CEU Press Podcast Series September 27, 2023

Getting Published at CEU Press

The Book Proposal

Laura Portwood-Stacer

Hosted by CEU Press
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The third episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series is all about the book proposal. Our guests, Laura Portwood-Stacer, publishing consultant and developmental editor, and Jen McCall, CEU Press’s acquisitions …
High Theory July 7, 2022

Book Proposal

A Discussion with Laura Portwood-Stacer

Laura Portwood-Stacer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Laura Portwood-Stacer talks with Kim about book proposals. Laura is a consultant for academic authors. Her book, titled, appropriately, The Book Proposal Book (Princeton UP, 2021), is a how-to-guide for …
Secularism May 26, 2023

Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement

Imagining a Secular World

Patrick J. Corbeil

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. Patrick Corbeil is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire …
Political Science December 24, 2020

After Trump

Reconstructing the Presidency

Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, two attorneys who have worked, respectively, in the Barack Obama and the George W. Bush Administrations, have written a blueprint of considerations to reform and …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast July 1, 2021

Joseph Smith for President

The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom

Spencer W. McBride

Hosted by Marshall Poe
By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers. Nearly …
Scholarly Communication August 8, 2022

The Realities of Completing a PhD

How to Plan for Success

Nicholas Rowe

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Nicholas Rowe, researcher and educator based in Finland. We talk his book The Realities of Completing a PhD: How to Plan for Success (Routledge, 2021) and about …
Politics & Polemics May 10, 2022

An Inconvenient Minority

The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy

Kenny Xu

Hosted by Shu Cao Mo
Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery …
Literary Studies July 2, 2021

The Classics in South America

Five Case Studies

Germán Campos Muñoz

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Germán Campos Muñoz, The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies (Bloomsbury, 2021) examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics …
Psychoanalysis July 6, 2022

The Work of Whiteness

A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Helen Morgan

Hosted by Philip Lance
'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications …
Architecture May 14, 2021

The Business of Architecture

Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm

Kathy Denise Dixon, Timothy A. Kephart, and Karl L. Moody

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm (Routledge, 2017) is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect. Written by successful …
Science, Technology, and Society August 5, 2023

Deep Cut

Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal

Christine Keiner

Hosted by Shu Wan
The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (U Georgia Press, 2020) examines the canal …
Critical Theory February 16, 2023

Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Philip Nel

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because …
Environmental Studies March 7, 2022

A World Without Soil

The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet

Jo Handelsman

Hosted by Eyad Houssami
A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate …
CEU Press Podcast Series September 29, 2023

Central European Medieval Texts

Series Spotlight

Gábor Klaniczay

Hosted by CEU Press
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In episode 5 of the CEU Press Podcast Series we sat down with Professor Gábor Klaniczay from the CEU’s Department of Medieval Studies to discuss one of CEU Press’s longest …
Political Science July 22, 2021

Executive Policymaking

The Role of the OMB in the Presidency

Meena Bose and Andrew Rudalevige

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is sometimes described as “the most important governmental office no one has ever heard of” and it certainly occupies a very important position …
Academic Life February 2, 2023

The Grant Writing Guide

A Road Map for Scholars

Betty S. Lai

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Why is writing a grant proposal so stressful? Are you supposed to just know how to do it? This episode explores: How to align your values and interests with a …
General History August 2, 2017

The Draining of the Fens

Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England

Eric Ash

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Today "The Fens" is largely a misnomer, as the area of eastern England is now largely flat, dry farmland. Until the early modern era, however, it was a region of …
Intellectual History August 1, 2022

Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)

Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation

Mark Solovey

Hosted by Keith Krueger
This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s Social Science for What? is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science policy or the history of …
Language April 11, 2023

OK

Michelle McSweeney

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK as an object, however, tells a story …