Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 184
It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree.
In Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generatio…
3 years, 4 months ago
When Your Professor Asks You to Cheat: A Conversation with Dr. Joel Heng Hartse
Episode 139
We all know that academic integrity matters. But do we all agree on what academic integrity really is? Somewhere beyond the nuances and gray areas is…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ourboox: A Conversation with Mel Rosenberg
Episode 18
In this interview, Mel Rosenberg discusses his love for children's literature, what makes for a memorable picture book, and the company he created, O…
3 years, 5 months ago
Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 338
The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jersey…
3 years, 5 months ago
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 183
Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to b…
3 years, 5 months ago
Rhonda F. Levine, "When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 258
In When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City (Routledge, 2019), Rhonda Levine provides a 15-year ethnography that follow…
3 years, 5 months ago
Scholar Skills: Unraveling Faculty Burnout
Episode 138
“I’m burned out” is a familiar phrase in higher ed these days. This episode explores:
What burnout is and is not. One scholar’s personal experience w…3 years, 5 months ago
Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 215
Who are America's creationists? What do they want? Why do they think Jesus rode around on a dinosaur? In Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Tea…
3 years, 5 months ago
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 200
Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different…
3 years, 5 months ago
Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern University, 1996-2006
Episode 54
It is rare to see colleges and universities achieve major and rapid changes in their national rankings. Richard Freeland, the president emeritus of N…
3 years, 5 months ago