Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Field Guide to Grad School: A Conversation with Jessica McCrory Calarco
Episode 36
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, 2 months ago
John Sexton (3): President Emeritus of New York University
Episode 6
NYU President Emeritus John Sexton provides a detailed history of the evolution of NYU into the world’s first, global network university. This began …
5 years, 2 months ago
John Sexton (2): President Emeritus of New York University
Episode 5
We continue the discussion with NYU President Emeritus John Sexton who shares how it took an intervention from his close friends to get him to give u…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Episode 12
Ramsey McGlazer's Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), traces the ways in which a group…
5 years, 2 months ago
John Sexton (1): President Emeritus of New York University
Episode 4
New York University (NYU) President Emeritus and consummate story-teller John Sexton describes how his childhood experiences as a young entrepreneur …
5 years, 2 months ago
Free College is Bad Public Policy
Episode 10
One of the major debates surrounding higher education is whether to make college – whether 2- or 4-year public colleges and universities – free for a…
5 years, 2 months ago
An Introduction to "The Future of Higher Education" Podcast
Episode 9
Dr. David Finegold, the President of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and international expert on education and training systems and how they rel…
5 years, 2 months ago
Cristina V. Groeger, "The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 101
Education is thought to be the route out of poverty, but history disagrees. For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to ec…
5 years, 2 months ago
Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 14
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite ed…
5 years, 2 months ago
Joan Turner, "On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Episode 16
Listen to this interview of Joan Turner, author of On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). We talk abou…
5 years, 3 months ago