Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDi Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 56
Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 (Brill, 2022) focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-st…
3 years, 2 months ago
Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
Episode 154
In Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave (Intellect Publishing, 2022), Simon Strange explores the relationship between art and mu…
3 years, 2 months ago
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Episode 130
Today’s book is: Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities (UNC Press, 2018), by Jonathan Coley. Altho…
3 years, 2 months ago
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 192
Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It’s been invisible and also omnipresent for a century. Dr. Antero Garcia shows how the U.S. school bus, its fo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz
Season 1 Episode 9
What are the "great books"? What makes them great? Is the cultivation of an intellectual life especially important to citizens of a democratic republ…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Connected PhD, Part Three
Episode 164
How can a PhD program pivot from a professoriate-apprenticeship system, to one that is mindful of students’ post-grad career goals? This episode comp…
3 years, 2 months ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 3 months ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 3 months ago
Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)
Episode 215
Dr. Joyce Kinkead, Distinguished Professor of English at Utah State University discusses her recent book, A Writing Studies Primer (Broadview Press. …
3 years, 3 months ago
Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 85
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League a…
3 years, 3 months ago