Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak, "Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services" (ACRL, 2024)
Episode 51
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 41
In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, …
2 years, 2 months ago
José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 150
For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education
Episode 207
Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay col…
2 years, 3 months ago
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Episode 67
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner…
2 years, 3 months ago
Colette 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago