Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAna 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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 …
5 years, 1 month ago
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…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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 …
5 years, 1 month ago