Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 124
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities. Open access (OA) could one day put t…
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Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 152
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, …
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Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 200
Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocrati…
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Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 199
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipelin…
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Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 127
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Myra Strober and Abby Davisson, "Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions" (HarperOne, 2023)
Episode 22
Should we separate decisions related to love and money, approaching finance and career-related decisions solely in a rational way while relying more …
2 years, 10 months ago
Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 20
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in…
2 years, 10 months ago
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 383
In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosop…
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Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 20
Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what,…
2 years, 10 months ago
Embodied and Trauma-Aware Pedagogy
Episode 98
In this episode I sit down with Frances Garrett, a scholar of Tibetan culture, history, and language. We talk about Frances’s interests in embodiment…
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