Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUVA vs. Carlisle vs. Hampton with Eve L. Ewing
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On today’s episode, we’re covering the history and purposes of the first American research universities, Indian boarding schools, …
11 months ago
Marx in the classroom from Reagan to 9/11 with Andrew Hartman
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Within and beyond the academy, Karl Marx remains a specter who assumes quite different shapes from his friends and enemies. Accord…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Trustees (joint episode with In Bed with the Right podcast)
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It was my great pleasure to join friends of the pod, Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub (who you'll remember from our Cancel Culture Pa…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Whither the English degree? Major Trade-offs with Corey Moss-Pech
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Believe it or not, an English degree is still worth pursuing in a capitalist economy, even if one is not independently wealthy! Of…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Disability accommodations since Covid-19 with Jennifer Leigh
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Jennifer Leigh discusses the academy's struggle to accommodate learners and workers with disabilities, mental health challenges, a…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Why colleges have dormitories with Carla Yanni
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The college dormitory is an American tradition, though it hasn’t always been necessary for education. Carla Yanni tells us why the…
1 year ago
Higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold
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Matt Seybold takes us back to Knobs University, a fictional HBCU imagined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 no…
1 year ago
The medical school building boom with Katherine Carroll
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On the medical school building boom of the early 20th century (1890-1940), and what it can tell us about the professionalization o…
1 year ago
Casual, a timeless campus fashion with Deirdre Clemente
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Deirdre Clemente on the timeless campus style: casual.
Deirdre Clemente. 2014. Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined America…1 year ago
Great books and the canon wars with Tim Lacy
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Tim Lacy lets us in on all things Great Books: champions, curriculums, and controversies.
Tim Lacy. 2013. The Dream of a Democratic…1 year, 1 month ago