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Back to SearchJamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)
Episode 27
Are robots going to be our overlords? In Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (RosettaBooks, 2020), Jamie Merisotis says they don't have to be. We…
5 years, 5 months ago
Introduction to 'The Academic Life' Podcast
Episode 1
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you’re not an island, and neither are we. So, we are reaching across our own contacts – …
5 years, 5 months ago
Jennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 14
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and …
5 years, 5 months ago
Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Writing Center and the University
Episode 5
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what ever…
5 years, 6 months ago
Eddie Cole, "The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 169
Some of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free s…
5 years, 6 months ago
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
Episode 4
Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the fl…
5 years, 6 months ago
W. Germano and K. Nicholls, "Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 117
Do you teach, or do you care about education? Then you have to read this book. At turns radical in the interventions it proposes in educational pract…
5 years, 6 months ago
Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience
Episode 5
Dr. Christopher Harris (@chrisharris) is a neuroscientist, engineer and educator at the EdTech company Backyard Brains. He is principal investigator …
5 years, 7 months ago
Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Episode 10
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The re…
5 years, 7 months ago
Katherine M. Young, "How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Episode 97
Kathryne M. Young, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written a combination of a sociological study…
5 years, 7 months ago