Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education
Episode 170
What can a classroom experiment teach us about how and when we start shaping our ideas of ‘the other’? Can the results from such an experiment help u…
3 years, 3 months ago
Are We Done with Higher Education Rankings?
Episode 149
Why do most of the institutions of higher education in the United States participate in a rankings system? What do the rankings do? And what does it …
3 years, 3 months ago
Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 364
How does it feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male "problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable: Politics and Paradox…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Episode 362
Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Car…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Connected PhD, Part Two
Episode 136
How can PhD programs prepare graduate students for future paths beyond academia? This episode explores:
The positive effect on students when they are…3 years, 4 months ago
Sara Pugach, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 144
Sara Pugach's African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 (U Michigan Press, 2022)explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, stud…
3 years, 4 months ago
Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Episode 46
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American In…
3 years, 4 months ago
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Episode 144
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital hi…
3 years, 4 months ago
The History of Student Loans in the United States
Season 2 Episode 37
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, talks about her book, Indentured Students: How Government-Gu…
3 years, 4 months ago
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
Episode 150
Today’s book is: We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States. The “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the e…
3 years, 4 months ago