A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler

A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler

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A podcast about the life and work of Robert Eisler.

Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration

April 25, 2024

Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration

Isabella Rosner

Today’s book is: Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press, 2024), by Dr. Isabella Rosner, which considers how for centuri…

Stylish Academic Writing: A Discussion with Helen Sword

April 4, 2024

Stylish Academic Writing

Helen Sword

Today’s book is: Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard UP, 2012), by Helen Sword, which dispels the myth that you only get published by writing wordy, imp…

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Discussion with Claire Goldstene and Maria Maisto

March 28, 2024

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

Claire Goldstene and Maria Maisto

Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay coll…

Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students

March 21, 2024

Is Grad School for Me?

Yvette Martínez-Vu and Miroslava Chavez-Garcia

Today’s book is: Is Grad School for Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students (U California Press, 2024), by Dr. Yvette Ma…

Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

March 14, 2024

Secret Harvests

David Mas Masumoto

Today’s book is: Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, 2023), by David Mas Masumoto. In hi…

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You

March 7, 2024

The Ungrateful Refugee

Dina Nayeri

Today’s book is: The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Catapult, 2020), by Dina Nayeri, a book which asks “what is it like to be a r…

Get PhDone! Proven Strategies for Tackling Your Writing Roadblocks

February 29, 2024

Get PhDone! Proven Strategies for Tackling Your Writing Roadblocks

Briana Barner

Are you facing writing roadblocks? There are many guides on how to make your writing match academic standards, so why aren’t there any on how to make …

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

February 22, 2024

Look Again

Cass R. Sunstein

Today’s book is: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024), by Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein, a b…

Deborah Taffa, "Whiskey Tender: A Memoir" (Harper, 2024)

February 15, 2024

Whiskey Tender

Deborah Taffa

Today’s book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to a…

Where is Home?: A Discussion with Zed Zha

February 8, 2024

Where is Home?

Zed Zha

When Zed Zha came to the United States for her education, she faced barriers to medical school admission and financial aid, and to establishing a sens…

Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education

February 1, 2024

Black Women, Ivory Tower

Jasmine L. Harris

Today’s book is: Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education (Broadleaf Books, 2024), by Dr. Jasmine L. Harr…

Inside Addiction and Sobriety in Academia

January 25, 2024

Inside Addiction and Sobriety in Academia

Alicia Andrzejewski

How do the pressures of academia affect our relationships with ourselves, our work, and with substance use? Dr. Alicia Andrzejewski joins us for a can…

Black and Queer on Campus

January 18, 2024

Black and Queer on Campus

Michael P. Jeffries

Today’s book is: Black and Queer on Campus (NYU Press, 2023) by Michael P. Jeffries, which offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ colleg…

Montana Lee, a Journey to Togo, and the Duke Diary Dispatches

January 11, 2024

Montana Lee, a Journey to Togo, and the Duke Diary Dispatches

Montana Lee

Does time abroad teach you something about the world, or about yourself? Whether you are a student, staff, or have gone alt-ac, you’ve likely consider…

Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book: A Discussion with Miriam Kalman Friedman

January 4, 2024

Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book

Miriam Kalman Friedman

Why did the New York Public Library ban a novel about women’s independence? What was the Human Potential Movement? And who was Claire Myers Owens? To…

Brown and Gay in LA and the Craft of Writing Nonfiction:: A Discussion with Anthony Christian Ocampo

December 28, 2023

Brown and Gay in LA and the Craft of Writing Nonfiction

Anthony Christian Ocampo

In this episode, Dr. Anthony Christian Ocampo takes us both inside and beyond his new book, Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Pres…

Talking to Strangers: A Discussion with Psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber

December 21, 2023

Talking to Strangers

Charlotte Fox Weber

Can the kindness of strangers help with the loneliness crisis? Whether you are a student, staff, or have gone alt-ac, you’ve likely had to move at lea…

How to Build a Career: A Discussion with Ben Wildavsky

December 14, 2023

How to Build A Career

Ben Wildavsky

On this episode of the Academic Life, we dive into the book The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections (Princeton UP, 2…

Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle

December 7, 2023

Hidden No More

Sharon McDougle

Who dresses the astronauts for flight? Why are the suits orange? And how are they cared for? Sharon Caples McDougle joins us to talk about her work as…

Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach College in Prison

November 30, 2023

Education Behind the Wall

Mneesha Gellman
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Why are college programs offered in some prisons? How are the students selected? Where do the professors come from? What are the logistics of preparin…