Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 188
From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migra…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mike Murawski, "Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
Episode 189
Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’s…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 187
Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History (Routledge, 2022) is a complete handbook to help pre-service teachers, current teachers…
3 years, 4 months ago
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
Episode 61
With the Biden Administration's student loan relief coming down the pike, Annika sits down with Dr. Beth Akers, a Senior Fellow at the American Enter…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars
Episode 153
Why is writing a grant proposal so stressful? Are you supposed to just know how to do it? This episode explores:
How to align your values and interes…3 years, 4 months ago
Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 111
Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experien…
3 years, 4 months ago
Money 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago