Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchColette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)
Episode 215
How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historicall…
2 years, 1 month ago
Mary K. Bolin, "Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse: The Idea of a Library" (Chandos, 2022)
Episode 49
Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pande…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jeffrey Benson, "Hacking School Discipline Together" (Times Ten Publications, 2024)
Episode 229
Jeffrey Benson’s Hacking School Discipline Together (Times Ten Publications, 2024) follows in footsteps first hacked out by Weinstein and Maynard in …
2 years, 1 month ago
Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students
Episode 206
Today’s book is: Is Grad School for Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students (U California Press, 2024), by Dr. Yvette M…
2 years, 1 month ago
Fran Martin, "Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 290
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in …
2 years, 1 month ago
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 146
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, Americ…
2 years, 1 month ago
Flora Lu and Emily Murai, "Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education" (Springer, 2023)
Episode 110
In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Freedom in the Academy: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Episode 98
Finishing off our series on freedom of speech, renowned historian Niall Ferguson discusses ideological conflict both between America and China and wi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Derron Wallace, "The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 438
How does race matter in schools? In The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford UP, 2023), Derron Wallace, th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 223
Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher’s Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors includ…
2 years, 2 months ago