Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaking the Most of Academic Conferences: Insights and Tips from Dr. Thomas Tobin
Episode 120
You’re going to an academic conference—and maybe even presenting a project! Whether you are going virtually or in person, for the first time or the t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Richard V. Reeves, "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
Episode 119
Today I talked to Richard Reeves about his important new book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do abou…
3 years, 7 months ago
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Episode 163
There are few thinkers who engender as much debate about their legacy as Leo Strauss (1899 –1973). His critics and biographers often don’t even agree…
3 years, 7 months ago
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, "Schools, Space and Culinary Capital" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 253
Gurpinder Singh Lalli's book Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Routledge, 2022) introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisa…
3 years, 7 months ago
Barbara W. Sarnecka, "The Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia" (2019)
Episode 82
Listen to this interview of Barbara Sarnecka, Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for Social Sciences…
3 years, 7 months ago
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Episode 329
The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism (Peter Lang, 2020) presents nuanced perspectives in the for…
3 years, 8 months ago
Scholar 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago