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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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
Episode 15
This episode is a roundtable discussion on the influence of the neoliberal project on higher education. Our guests are Professor Emeritus Frank Fear …
3 years, 5 months ago
Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
Episode 127
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specialist in Antebellum American literature and cultur…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Episode 186
Today I talked to Ellen Cassedy about her new book Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie (Chicago Review Press, 20…
3 years, 5 months ago
It's Elementary! Catholic Education in the 21st Century
Season 1 Episode 8
Joseph Nagel and Heather Skinner are principal and vice-principal of the School of the Madeleine in Berkeley, California; Mrs. Skinner was also once …
3 years, 5 months ago