Podcast Episodes

The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne

We're headed South with Kate Ballantyne to talk about the Old Left! Plus, Kate's tips for conducting archival research.

To join the student activism r…

1 year, 1 month ago

Why does my campus have an ROTC? with Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner

From the conception of ROTC after the Spanish-American War, colleges and K12 schools have been central to US military recruitment efforts. Scott Hard…

1 year, 1 month ago

What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera

Is the Title IX process working as intended? Nicole Bedera tells us what's working, what isn't, and what we can do about it.

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1 year, 1 month ago

UVA vs. Carlisle vs. Hampton with Eve L. Ewing

On today’s episode, we’re covering the history and purposes of the first American research universities, Indian boarding schools, and Historically Bl…

1 year, 2 months ago

Marx in the classroom from Reagan to 9/11 with Andrew Hartman

Within and beyond the academy, Karl Marx remains a specter who assumes quite different shapes from his friends and enemies. According to Andrew Hartm…

1 year, 2 months ago

The Trustees (joint episode with In Bed with the Right podcast)

It was my great pleasure to join friends of the pod, Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub (who you'll remember from our Cancel Culture Panic episode), for a…

1 year, 2 months ago

Whither the English degree? Major Trade-offs with Corey Moss-Pech

Believe it or not, an English degree is still worth pursuing in a capitalist economy, even if one is not independently wealthy! Of this we can be hop…

1 year, 2 months ago

Disability accommodations since Covid-19 with Jennifer Leigh

Jennifer Leigh discusses the academy's struggle to accommodate learners and workers with disabilities, mental health challenges, and neurodivergences…

1 year, 2 months ago

Why colleges have dormitories with Carla Yanni

The college dormitory is an American tradition, though it hasn’t always been necessary for education. Carla Yanni tells us why the dorm has become a …

1 year, 2 months ago

Higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold

Matt Seybold takes us back to Knobs University, a fictional HBCU imagined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 novel, The Gilded Age…

1 year, 3 months ago