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Back to SearchJames Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Episode 129
James Fredal is Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. The recipient of multiple awards for his work in rheto…
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Hannah Hoechner, "Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty" (U Cambridge Press, 2018)
Episode 232
In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalization and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialized in religious semina…
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Michelle Miller-Adams, "The Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 109
In The Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity (Harvard Education Press, 2021), Michelle Miller-Adams argues that tuition-…
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From the Military to Academia: A Discussion with Maurice Wilson
Episode 49
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, 11 months ago
Ana Honnacker, "Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home" (Palgrave, 2019)
Episode 224
How can we feel at home in this world? Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home (Palgrave, 2019) offers a humanist re-readin…
4 years, 11 months ago
Cary Nelson, "Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities" (AEN, 2021)
Episode 48
“Allying with a Hamas cell (on a Palestinian university campus) is not the same as joining the College Republicans at the University of Kansas...in t…
4 years, 11 months ago
Sarah Drummond: Founding Dean Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School
Episode 13
Sarah Drummond provides a master class for any higher education leader contemplating a strategic alliance or merger with another institution. She des…
4 years, 11 months ago
Nathan D. Grawe, "The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 19
In his highly influential book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, Carleton College Professor of Economics, Nathan Grawe, alerted coll…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ken Hyland, "Second Language Writing" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 21
Listen to this interview of Ken Hyland, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. We talked about his book …
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Marc Brackett, "Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive" (Celadon, 2019)
Episode 128
Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 y…
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