Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBin Chen, "Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China: Education, Frontier Politics, and Nation-State" (Routledge, 2025)
Chen examines the Chinese Nationalist government's distinctive support for private Muslim teachers schools between the 1920s and 1940s, and explores …
4 months, 1 week ago
Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (Harvard UP, 2025), provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China's high-stakes coll…
4 months, 1 week ago
Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, genre, et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970)" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024)
Today we are joined by Claire Nicolas, a chercheuse du Fonds National Suisse at Basel University, a holder of a prestigious Ambizione Research Grant,…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them
Episode 310
Rural students are unlikely to pursue degrees from private, selective schools. Why? And what happens to the handful of rural students who do attend e…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)
A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even down…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023).
Few people question the importance of sci…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have create…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 172
An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment.
After receivi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Jo Mackiewicz, "Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace" (Springer, 2025)
Episode 260
This open access book describes and explains a fifty-year-old woman’s process of developing trade competences. Drawing from daily journal entries, ph…
5 months, 2 weeks ago