Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Role of Community Colleges in Higher Education: A Discussion with Penny Wills
Episode 20
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, 4 months ago
How to Work Toward Diversity and Inclusion in Campus Organizations
Episode 19
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, 5 months ago
Andratesha Fritzgerald, "Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning" (Cast, 2020)
Episode 121
In the wake of 2020’s movements for Black Lives and exposed racial disparities in working-class deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, educational inst…
5 years, 5 months ago
Cedric Burrows, "The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers" (2011)
Episode 5
This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In this series, we delve into the background of Malcolm X's action and thought…
5 years, 5 months ago
L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Episode 113
I wish I had seen Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt's Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) six months ago. I ta…
5 years, 5 months ago
Mich Yonah Nyawalo, "Teaching in Times of Crisis: Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 121
Teaching in Times of Crisis: Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom (Routledge, 2021) explores how comparative methods, which are instrumen…
5 years, 5 months ago
How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job
Episode 17
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, 5 months ago
Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Episode 120
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educa…
5 years, 5 months ago
K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 66
The new essay collection Food Insecurity on College Campuses edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady explores the widespread problem of food …
5 years, 5 months ago
Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020)
Episode 35
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stall…
5 years, 5 months ago