Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe future of university presses with Clara Totten
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And how to approach an acquisitions editor
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Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind th…7 months ago
Tuskegee and the Afterlives of the Plantation with Jarvis McInnis
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Tuskegee, Alabama, the center of modernity in the Black Global South
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Jarvis McInnis. 2025. Afterl…7 months ago
Frank Meyer: campus communist to rightwing revolutionary with Daniel Flynn
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From college radical to rightwing organizer, the 3-D life and education of The Man Who Invented Conservatism.
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Global attacks on academic freedom with Eve Darian-Smith
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Eve Darian-Smith. 2025. Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why…7 months, 1 week ago
TurningPointUSA and the Professor Watchlist with Matthew Boedy
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Are you on the Professor Watchlist?
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Matthew Boedy. 2025. The Seven Mountains Mandate: Inside the …7 months, 2 weeks ago
DEI win in Mississippi (and what you can do in your state) with James M. Thomas
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A DEI victory Mississippi! Plus, JT Thomas explains what's wrong with Diversity, Inc.
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James M. Th…7 months, 2 weeks ago
DEI from the 90s to now with Nimisha Barton
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From tolerance to land acknowledgements.
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Nimisha Barton. 2024. A Just Future: Getting from Divers…7 months, 3 weeks ago
NYT discovers community colleges, UChicago discovers crypto losses with Marshall Steinbaum
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The Chicago boys would have loved digital assets.
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Alan Blinder and Steven Rich. August 25, 2025.…7 months, 3 weeks ago
A gender, queer, and trans history of the British university with Sam Rutherford
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College, a nice time for nice ladies.
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Samuel Rutherford. 2025. Teaching Gender: The British Unive…7 months, 4 weeks ago
Before ChatGPT, there were MOOCs with Anne Trumbore
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A human history of ed tech
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Anne Trumbore. 2025. The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Ed…8 months ago