Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)
Episode 162
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effec…
4 years, 1 month ago
Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 44
We speak with Richard Detweiler about his new book The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment (MIT Press, 2021…
4 years, 1 month ago
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 112
What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with s…
4 years, 1 month ago
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 8
Today I talked to Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant about her book To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of D…
4 years, 1 month ago
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 138
The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK" (University of Illinois Press, 2021)
Episode 160
In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named …
4 years, 1 month ago
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 306
Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision…
4 years, 1 month ago
Rejection Skills: How to Win or Learn
Episode 95
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
How rejection is normal and even inevitable Skills to help you learn from and move t…4 years, 1 month ago
Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester, "Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World" (Sage, 2021)
Episode 159
Whether you like it or not, the pandemic has pushed us to make many changes in our life, from working from home to following all the mitigation measu…
4 years, 1 month ago
76 Land-Grab Universities with Robert Lee (Jerome Tharaud, JP)
Episode 76
John and new Brandeis host Jerome Tharaud (author of Apocalyptic Geographies) learn exactly how the growth of America's public universities relied on…
4 years, 1 month ago