Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPhilis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020)
Episode 70
Debates about Ethnic Studies in K-12 and Higher Education have highlighted the importance of culturally inclusive pedagogy in schools. Despite discus…
10 months ago
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Elaine Weiss, acclaimed author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, follows that magisterial work with a work of equal scholarly sig…
10 months ago
Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Episode 180
The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational travel and small-states' diplomacy (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Jérémy Filet is the first…
10 months ago
Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
In Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era (University of Illinois Press, 2025), Dr. Mar…
10 months, 1 week ago
Christopher R. Matthews, "Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between" (Routledge, 2025)
Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between (Routledge, 2025) takes readers on a person…
10 months, 1 week ago
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Episode 283
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escap…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism (Polity Press, 2023) by David Theo Goldberg discusses how “Critical Race Theory” is consu…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
'Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)' by Hannah Star Rogers
When I sat down with Hannah Star Rogers to discuss her new book…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
Episode 53
African American males are confronted with formidable barriers in their pursuit of quality education, resulting in stark disparities in academic perf…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Alexandra Freidus, "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 257
Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City (NYU Press, 2025) argues that diversity and racial integration efforts …
10 months, 2 weeks ago