Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEddie 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 65
The updated paperback edition of Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press) dispels misunderstandings p…
5 years, 9 months ago
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 112
“Consider the works of the renowned Nobel-prize-winning African American writer, literary and social critic, and activist Toni Morrison (b. 1931),” w…
5 years, 9 months ago
Jonathan Haber, "Critical Thinking" (The MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 116
In this episode, I speak with fellow New Books in Education host, Jonathan Haber, about his book, Critical Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020).
This book e…
5 years, 9 months ago
Federico R. Waitoller, "Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace" (Teachers College Press, 2020)
Episode 115
In this episode, I speak with Federico R. Waitoller about his book, Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace…
5 years, 9 months ago