Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJuliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 205
When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work--giving earners flexibility, auto…
2 years, 9 months ago
Phoebe Ho et al., "Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 204
How do children and adolescents transition to adulthood in today’s America? How have American society’s entrenching economic inequality and increasin…
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Yi-Lin Chiang, "Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 203
We understand very little about how elite individuals and families operate in everyday life to maintain their privileged statuses, as many of these s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 228
Almost every student that will enroll in a college Shakespeare course can expect two things. Students will have to engage with the style and themes o…
2 years, 9 months ago
Peter L. Stiepleman, "An Imperfect Leader: Human-Centered Leadership in (after) Action" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 202
An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) tells the story of a superintendent from his first days to the pandemi…
2 years, 9 months ago
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Episode 121
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and pla…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
Episode 201
Across the U.S., state legislatures-often under the cover of darkness, and usually in spite of public opposition-are passing bills that channel publi…
2 years, 10 months ago
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023).
Few people question the importance of sci…
2 years, 10 months ago
Myka Kennedy Stephens, "Integrated Library Planning: A New Model for Strategic and Dynamic Planning, Management, and Assessment" (ACRL, 2023)
Episode 8
Many library project plans, from small projects to institution-wide strategic planning committees, follow a linear trajectory: create the plan, do th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari, "Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
Episode 296
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (Open Book Publishers, 2023) consists of narratives of migrant academics from the…
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