Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchScholar Skills: Managing and Re-Envisioning the Academic Mid-Career
Episode 131
Ever felt uncertain about how to manage the academic mid-career stage? This episode explores:
Why the mid-career stage is so important to mid-career …3 years, 6 months ago
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Episode 328
Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work has long been excluded from the literary canon. …
3 years, 6 months ago
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
Episode 35
A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX.
“No p…
3 years, 6 months ago
Doron Taussig, "What We Mean by the American Dream: Stories We Tell about Meritocracy" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 182
The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives based on our efforts and abilities;…
3 years, 6 months ago
Miriam Plotinsky, "Hover Less, Teach More: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 183
What does it take to create a classroom environment in which students take the initiative in their learning and teachers can let go of the 'exhaustiv…
3 years, 6 months ago
SOAS’ Yoga Studies Online
Episode 224
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacqui Hargreaves & Ruth Westoby about SOAS’ exciting new online learning platform: Yoga Studies Online.
Raj Balkaran is a sc…
3 years, 6 months ago
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 316
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (…
3 years, 7 months ago
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Episode 103
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. Howe…
3 years, 7 months ago
College Baseball in the Offseason: Meet the Savannah Bananas
Episode 122
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The hard work of balancing academics and sports when you attend college on an athlet…3 years, 7 months ago
Jennifer Clary-Lemon et al., "Try This: Research Methods for Writers" (CSU Open Press, 2022)
Episode 181
Try This: Research Methods for Writers (CSU Open Press, 2022) explores interdisciplinary research methods employed in research in writing studies but…
3 years, 7 months ago