Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe College Writing Center: A Discussion with Joseph Cheatle
Episode 56
Listen to this interview of Joseph Cheatle, Director of the Writing & Media Center at Iowa State University. We talk about how communication will cha…
4 years ago
The Business of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Episode 55
Listen to this interview of Joe Esposito, Senior Partner of Clarke & Esposito. We talk about the space between academic research and consumer markets…
4 years ago
Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)
Episode 53
In Childhood, Religion, and School Injustice (Cork University Press, 2020), Dr. Karl Kitching examines how debates about religion and education inter…
4 years ago
Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 314
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been called “the most innovative square mile on the planet.” It's a life science hub, hosting Biogen,…
4 years ago
On Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance
Season 1 Episode 53
A veteran journalist, essayist, and award-winning education writer, Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age …
4 years ago
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 163
This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and dereg…
4 years ago
Mental Health in Academia 5: Harnessing the Power of Good Anxiety
Episode 165
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All …
4 years, 1 month ago
Emily J. Levine, "Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University" (UChicago Press, 2021)
Episode 1170
During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. B…
4 years, 1 month ago
Tia Brown McNair, "From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education" (Jossey-Bass, 2020)
Episode 96
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear:
Why it is so important to have the conversation about “Equity in Higher Education” and why…4 years, 1 month ago
Dana Mitra, "The Empowered Professor: Breaking the Unspoken Codes of Inequity in Academia" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
Episode 161
How can new faculty find success in academia and what can universities do to support them? In The Empowered Professor: Breaking the Unspoken Codes of…
4 years, 1 month ago