Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLeonard 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…
5 years, 1 month 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.…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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,…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic Perspectives: A Student Speaks About Mental Health
Episode 46
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
Teaching Buddhist Studies Online: A Discussion with Kate Hartmann
Episode 111
Join Raj Balkaran as he talks with Dr. Kate Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming and Director of Buddhist S…
5 years, 2 months ago
Matthew A.M. Thomas et al., "Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 127
Teach for America (TFA) continues to be the single largest preparation program for teachers in the United States. As that program grew in the US (att…
5 years, 2 months ago
Paul M. Renfro et al., "Growing Up America: Youth and Politics Since 1945" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Episode 519
Growing Up America: Youth and Politics Since 1945 (U Georgia Press, 2019) is a fascinating book that weaves together the burgeoning field of Childhoo…
5 years, 2 months ago