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Back to SearchYour PhD Survival Guide: Succeeding in Your Final Year
Episode 84
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The hidden curriculum of the final year of the PhD program Writing your dissertation…4 years, 3 months ago
Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?
Episode 46
Hear Dr. Rosina Lippi-Green talk about some of her shocking findings on language discrimination and bias on campus. Lippi-Green and Avi discuss her b…
4 years, 3 months ago
Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 154
If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as…
4 years, 3 months ago
Pandemic, Disruption and Adjustment in Higher Education
Episode 59
The pandemic has rapidly changed the world, making it one rife with online activity and information abundance. Education systems must be modified to …
4 years, 3 months ago
Nigel A. Caplan, "Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Episode 47
Listen to this interview of Nigel Caplan, Associate Professor at the English Language Institute, University of Delaware. We talk generically.
Nigel Ca…
4 years, 3 months ago
Navigating the Two-Body Problem
Episode 85
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
What the two-body problem is Dr. Kelly Baker’s experience on the academic job market…4 years, 3 months ago
A Conversation with Bijal Shah: Chief Experience Officer, Guild Education
Episode 42
Bijal Shah shares story of the meteoric rise of Guild Education, the Denver-based ed tech firm that has quickly emerged as the leading marketplace fo…
4 years, 3 months ago
Marshall Poe: The Founder and Editor of the New Books Network
Episode 47
This interview was recorded and first published in early 2020 when the NBN had about a million downloads a month. Since then the downloads have incre…
4 years, 3 months ago
Eric D. Loepp et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 571
Political Scientists Daniel Mallinson (Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg), Julia Marin Hellwege (University of South Dakota), and Eric Loepp (…
4 years, 3 months ago
Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 82
If one were to devise a motto for the art school of today, the choice between 'you too are an artist' and 'abandon all hope you who enter here' would…
4 years, 3 months ago