Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael B. Horn, "Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life" (Jossey-Bass, 2019)
Episode 109
What if everything we tell each other – and ourselves – about why we choose college isn’t true? Is higher education an ideal, a personal goal, or mig…
5 years, 9 months ago
Saul J. Weiner, "On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 76
Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, incl…
5 years, 9 months ago
Claudia Rueda, "Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition-Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Episode 89
Claudia Rueda’s book Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition-Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua (University of Texas Press, 2019) is a hi…
5 years, 9 months ago
A. P. Carnevale, "The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America" (The New Press, 2020)
Episode 96
Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work th…
5 years, 9 months ago
Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 84
No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech (Routledge, 2020) is the first to outline the history of the tacti…
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Joshua C. Myers, "We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989" (NYU Press, 2019)
Episode 205
We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard Unive…
5 years, 9 months ago
Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America" (NYU Press, 2019)
Episode 65
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America (NYU Press, 2019) is an intellectual and cultural history of the …
5 years, 10 months ago
Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 107
Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual …
5 years, 10 months ago
Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies
Episode 200
Where do good ideas come from? How does an idea go from creation to a research project? How is historical research done? And how does research find i…
5 years, 10 months ago
Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for Critical Consciousness" (Harvard Education, 2020)
Episode 106
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Scott Seider from Boston College and Dr. Daren Graves from Simmons University on their new book, Schooling for Crit…
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