Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPandemic Perspectives: Loneliness in Graduate School
Episode 51
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
College Belonging: A Conversation with Lisa M. Nunn
Episode 45
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
Mary Marci: President of Dominican University
Mary Marcy discusses her influential new book, The Small College Imperative: Models for Sustainable Futures (Stylus, 2020) which lays out five differ…
4 years, 11 months ago
S. Garnett Russell, "Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 99
In Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Rutgers UP, 2020), S. Garnett Russell argues that although …
4 years, 11 months ago
Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch, "The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education" (John Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 128
Whether and how to reform, indeed to transform graduate education has been a matter for debate, discussion and experimentation over the past 30 years…
4 years, 11 months ago
David Komline, "The Common School Awakening: Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American Public Education" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 177
The origins of American public schools can help shed light on continued contemporary discussions around religion and education in American discourse.…
4 years, 11 months ago
Matthew K. Shannon, "Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2017)
Episode 980
In Losing Hearts and Minds: American Iranian Relations and International Education During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2017), Matthew K. Shannon, an ass…
4 years, 11 months ago
Inside Look: "Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education"
Episode 43
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
Heath Brown, "Homeschooling the Right: How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 522
Political Scientist Heath Brown’s new book, Homeschooling the Right: How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State (Columbia UP, 2021) is an e…
4 years, 11 months ago
Jerry Cohon and Mark Kamlet: Former President and Former Provost of Carnegie Mellon University
This features our first tag team on the podcast, with an engaging discussion with Jared “Jerry” Cohon, who served as President of CMU from 1997-2013,…
4 years, 11 months ago