Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAAAS Book Awards Part 4: Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"
Episode 6
This is the last episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian Amer…
4 years, 8 months ago
Salvatore Pappalardo, "Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 109
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international poli…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jennifer Morton, "Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility" (Princeton UP. 2021)
Episode 22
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college…
4 years, 8 months ago
Derek Gladwin, "Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being" (Atrium, 2020)
Episode 194
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being (Atrium, 2020) harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of f…
4 years, 8 months ago
Anna Ruddock, "Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 126
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, …
4 years, 8 months ago
Sean Creighton: President of New American Colleges & Universities
Episode 26
Sean Creighton, the President of New American Colleges & Universities, discusses the origins and evolution of this Association that serves 24 institu…
4 years, 8 months ago
Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Episode 64
Helen Sword, writing champion, brings us into the word gym. Or maybe kitchen. Either way, The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose (U Chicago Press, 2…
4 years, 8 months ago
Pandemic Perspectives from an Associate Professor: A Discussion with Ulices Piña
Episode 60
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bri…
4 years, 8 months ago
Peter B. Kaufman, "The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge" (Seven Stories Press, 2021)
Episode 30
Listen to this interview of Peter Kaufman, Program Manager in Strategic Initiatives and Resource Development at MIT Open Learning and author of The N…
4 years, 8 months ago
Leo Casey, "The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
Episode 141
In The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective (Harvard Education Press, 2020), Leo Casey addresses how the unexpected wave of rec…
4 years, 8 months ago