Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLife After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 1--The Job Search and Job Market
Episode 56
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (pr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Barish, "Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861-1912" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 479
The late Qing was a time of great turmoil and upheaval but also a time of great possibility, as scholars, officials, the press, and revolutionaries a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 266
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against an…
3 years, 4 months ago
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 185
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research proc…
3 years, 4 months ago
Hester Barron, "The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 73
The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London (Manchester UP, 2022) shows why the study of schooling matters to the hist…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
Episode 227
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership (UP of Florida, 2022) examines a life of remarkable achievements and…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mergers in Higher Education: A Discussion with Beth Hillman
Episode 55
Beth Hillman discusses the recent merger between Mills College and Northeastern University. Hillman, who served as President of Mills from 2016-22, d…
3 years, 4 months ago
Misrepresentation on Campus: A Conversation with Michelle Cyca
Episode 133
When a professor is not who they say they are, what does it take to get them to resign? This episode explores:
How an anonymous twitter account and a…3 years, 4 months ago
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
Episode 24
Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South (Catholic University of America Press, 2022) discusses the work of the S…
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Houghton, "Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Episode 185
Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniabl…
3 years, 4 months ago