Humanities on the High Plains
Episodes
Ep. 20 The Conservative Frontier
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980, when he was a high-school freshman in Canyon, Texas, Jeff Roche opened up his school newspaper and saw he was one of only seven students out ...
Ep. 19 The Bomb Cloud
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this episode is Tyler Mills, an instructor at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and an award-winning poet whose work has appeared i...
Ep. 18 For the Record
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2023, The Canadian Record — the weekly newspaper of rural Canadian, TX, population 2,300 — suspended publication after 130 years in print...
Ep. 17 George Saunders
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before he was a MacArthur Genius or a Booker Prize-winner, George Saunders was a songwriter, an oil-field worker, and a slaughterhouse "knuckle-puller...
Ep. 16 Shadow of the New Deal
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The history of public media is the history of fidelity to an idea: access to public education is "not only a service but a right." On this episode we'...
Ep. 15 The Thirsty Llano Estacado
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan's guests this episode are Dr. Timothy M. Foster, former WT prof and currently a Spanish teacher in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Dr. John Beusterien, Prof...
Ep. 14 The ERA in the West
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this episode is WT history professor Dr. Chelsea Ball, author of "'I Oppose the ERA, but I Do Approve of Equal Rights for Women': Gender and...
Ep. 13 Dirty Knowledge
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan's guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Schleck, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln....
Ep. 12 You Will Never Be One of Us
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ryan speaks with his WT colleague Dr. Timothy Paul Bowman, historian and author of You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teach...
Ep. 11 Running Out
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Ryan is joined by two of his WT colleagues — Dr. Nathan Howell, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Erik Cros...
Ep. 10 Chicana/o Uprising
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Joel Zapata to discuss his essay "The South-by-Southwest Borderlands' Chicana/o Uprising: the Brown Berets, Bla...
Ep. 9 The Great Cowboy Strike
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Ryan is joined by Mark. A. Lause, Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and author of The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets...
Ep. 8 Three Women Artists
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan sits down with two of his WT colleagues, Dr. Amy Von Lintel, Professor of Art History, and Dr. Bonnie Roos, Professor of English, who join him to...
Ep. 7 The Vanishing Frame
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Eugenio Di Stefano, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Nebraska ...
Ep. 6 Modern Socratic Dialogue
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can educators cultivate self-cultivation in their students? How can they maintain an intimate connection between their scholarly research, what th...
Ep. 5 History of the Gold Sox
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, after a nearly 40-year absence, affiliated minor-league baseball returned to Amarillo with the debut of the Sod Poodles, a Class AA Padres af...
Ep. 4 Gunslinging Justice
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, Ryan is joined by Justin A. Joyce, Research Director for President Dwight McBride at the New School in New York City, Managing Edito...
Episode 3: Heartland
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ryan is joined by four of his WT colleagues: Dr. Alex Hunt, Dr. Tim Bowman, Dr. Ashley Pinkham, and Dr. Christopher Macaulay. Togethe...
Episode 2: Latin American Textualities
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan's guests for this episode are Heather J. Allen, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi, and Andrew R. Reynolds, Professo...
Episode 1: No Longer Newsworthy
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ryan speaks with Christopher R. Martin, Professor of Communication Studies and Digital Journalism at the University of Northern Iowa....