Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMoney or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice, Restlessness, and Higher Education
Episode 60
What kinds of tools do we need to make big decisions, and why aren't our universities training us to make them? Are universities doing students a dis…
3 years, 3 months ago
Michael T. Rizzi, "Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
Episode 27
Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History (Catholic University of America Press, 2022) provides a comprehensive history of Jes…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Connected PhD, Part One
Episode 153
Why do PhD programs assume students will become professors, when most people find careers outside academia? How can we better prepare graduate studen…
3 years, 3 months ago
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 172
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, …
3 years, 3 months ago
Engineering and Social Justice
Episode 17
Donna Riley, professor and head of the school of engineering education at Purdue University, talks about her path, her work, and her 2008 book, Engin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 210
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the te…
3 years, 3 months ago
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Episode 15
Davarian L. Baldwin is a professor of American studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. His latest…
3 years, 3 months ago
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Episode 171
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) offers the first overarching history of the humani…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Thought of Ivan Illich
Episode 12
Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher, and social critic Ivan Illich with Peoples & Thin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Harry Gamble, "Contesting French West Africa: Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
Episode 156
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply researc…
3 years, 3 months ago