Podcast Episodes

PhDing While Parenting

Episode 217

An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their pe…

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Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Episode 232

The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boy…

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Episode 74

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren …

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Sommer Browning and Isabel Soto-Luna, "Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2022)

Episode 59

Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers …

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Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)

Episode 365

Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, wh…

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Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Episode 231

John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's id…

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Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice

Episode 218

What makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, staff, and faculty transform these institutions into…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Episode 365

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to t…

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Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson, "Dirt Don't Burn: A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

Episode 461

The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected e…

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Bryan Hanson on Disrupting Academic Bullying

Episode 72

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Bryan Hanson, ombudsperson for Virginia Tech's Graduate School, about a program he developed called Disru…

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