New Books in Higher Education
Episodes
The Religion Department: An Online Learning Platform with Andrew Mark Henry and Andrew Ali Aghapour
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Religion Department is an online learning platform dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion, created by the team behind Religion ...
Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Alba Kapoor. Kapoor is the racial justice lead at Amnesty International UK and pre...
Ana Fernández-Aballí et al. eds., "Creative and Inclusive Heritage Education: Teaching Handbook for Use in Classrooms, Museums and Organizations" (U Groningen Press, 2025)
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Heritage is a hot topic in public debates today. Many politicians invoke it to exclude marginal groups from belonging to the national story. Yet, in t...
William R. Brody, "Uncommon Sense: Rethinking Ordinary Problems in Extraordinary Ways" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with William R. Brody about his book, Uncommon Sense: Rethinking Ordinary Problems in Extraordinary Ways (Johns Hopkins Univ...
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Bicks became the first scholar granted extended access by Stephen King to his private archives, a treasure trove of manuscripts that document...
Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Humanities Theory (Oxford UP, 2026) pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face ...
Radio ReOrient 14:3: Islamophobia in the Academy and the ‘Everyday’, with Izram Chaudry, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke with Dr Izram Chaudry about his recent report (written with Dr Yunis Alam) regarding Islamophobi...
The Case for Career Services
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is career services? If you don’t know, you aren’t alone. Most of us operate from a limited or outdated idea of what career services o...
Yingyi Ma, "Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education" (Columbia UP, 2020)
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education (Columbia UP, 2020), sociologist Yingyi Ma ...
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss the looming social, cultural, and knowledge catas...
Flower Darby, "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience--for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teac...
David M. Perry, "The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook" (JHU Press, 2026)
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Public scholarship is one of those things that most academics are interested in, but unfortunately for them, they don't know how to actually get start...
Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2026) provides practical guidance for higher education professionals lookin...
Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, abo...
Suzanne Bost, "Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities" (U Minnesota Press)
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question th...
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a d...
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a da...
Fatimah Williams, "Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter" (Oxford UP, 2025)
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a tra...
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a da...
Karen Kohn, "Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to design...
Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with economist Bryan Caplan about education and bullshit, with a particular focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why t...
Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are jobs fair? In The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College (U Chicago Press, 2023), Jessi Streib, an associate Professor of...
A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist, and provides detailed advice for ho...
Preacher, Teacher, and Founder: On Princeton's famous President, John Witherspoon
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Madison’s Notes is back and with a new host, Ryan Shinkel. In this episode to start off Season 5, I interview Dr. Kevin DeYoung, a popular author,...
Karen Schupp and Sherrie Barr eds., "Stories We Dance / Stories We Tell: Essays on Dance in Higher Education" (McFarland, 2025)
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Higher education continually mediates long standing traditions while seeking new ways of thinking, creating a quiet tension as institutions respond to...
Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (Harvard UP, 2025), provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China's high-stakes col...
Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In t...
Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rural students are unlikely to pursue degrees from private, selective schools. Why? And what happens to the handful of rural students who do attend el...
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downr...
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023). Few people question the importance of ...
Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of A Former Badass (Street Noise Books, 2025), Professor Cara Gormally draws us in...
Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment. After receivi...
Terra Jacobson and Spencer Brayton, "Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success" (ACRL, 2025)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting communit...
How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences is the ultimate guide to creating welcoming, safe, and accessible gatherings for everyone. With detai...
Amanda Nichols Hess, "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" (ALA, 2025)
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they thin...
Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Among the most common challenges on college campuses today is figuring out how to navigate our politically charged culture and engage productively wit...
Samuel Moore, "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I talked to Dr. Samuel Moore about his recent book, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons, (U Michigan Press, 2025) Samue...
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m excited to talk to Carlo Rotella today. Carlo is Professor of English at Boston College. His books include The World Is Always Coming to an End...
Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regim...
Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang eds., "Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weave...
Janice M. McCabe, "Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all familiar with the sentiment that “college is the best time of your life.” Along with a newfound sense of freedom, students have a uniq...
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and E...
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, E...
James Elwick, "Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing (U Toronto Press, 2025) takes historiographic and sociological perspectiv...
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clea...
Tim Beasley-Murray, "Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life" (Manchester UP, 2025)
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which parts of life are serious, and which are a game? In Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life (Manchester...
Kate McDowell, "Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact" (ALA, 2025)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s polarized landscape, libraries face two key challenges: the difficulty of turning raw data into narratives that effectively advocate for ...
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew D. Nelsen, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, has a new book out that focuses on the content of civic edu...
Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Developmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it w...
What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The speech debates have not abated, and it’s clear that invoking the First Amendment, and the importance of free speech for democracy, does not sett...
Michael Fernandez and Amauri Serrano, "Streaming Video Collection Development and Management" (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2025)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Streaming video is not new to the library environment, but recent years have seen an exponential growth in the number of platforms and titles availabl...
Deepa Das Acevedo, "The War on Tenure" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure (Cambridge UP, 2025) steps in to demystify what professors do a...
Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education (JHU Press, 2025), Dr. Annmarie Caño reimagines ac...
Debaditya Bhattacharya, "The Indian University: A Critical History" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there such a thing as an ‘Indian university’? Is there an ‘idea’ of an Indian university? Were universities in India living and breathing p...
M.A. in Yoga Studies with Christopher Chapple
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christopher Chapple, founder of Loyola Marymount University’s pioneering M.A. in Yoga Studies, joins us to discuss how the program blends rigor...
Alisha Karabinus et al. eds., "Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (Punctum Books, 2025)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be (Punctum Books, 2025) offers a first-of-its-kind reflection on how game studies ...
Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality offers practical guidance, tools, and resources to assist practitioners in creating effectiv...
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popul...
Christopher Willard et al., "College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals" (Oxford UP, 2025)
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With a growing number of students entering college with an existing mental health diagnosis, College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parent...
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of globalized education, where ideals of freedom and inquiry should thrive, an alarming trend has emerged: foreign authoritarian regimes inf...
Who Needs College Anymore: Imagining A Future Where Degrees Don’t Matter
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this optimistic yet practical assessment of how postsecondary education can evolve to meet the needs of next-generation learners, Kathleen deLaski ...
Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team" (Ballantine Books, 2019)
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1949-50 CCNY Beavers basketball team were one of the unlikeliest of champions in sports history. CCNY was a tuition-free in Harlem, New York, inte...
Christopher R. Matthews, "Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between" (Routledge, 2025)
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between (Routledge, 2025) takes readers on a perso...
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape...
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism (Polity Press, 2023) by David Theo Goldberg discusses how “Critical Race Theory” i...
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Teacher By Teacher traces the journey of the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives....
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Classicism and Other Phobias (Princeton University Press, 2025) shows how the concept of “classicism” lacks the capacity to affirm the aesthetic ...
The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the increasingly competitive world of academia, simply mastering your discipline is no longer enough to guarantee career success or personal fulfil...
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Marcus Golding, historian and Director of Educational Operations at ClioVis. ClioVis is an incredible software and learnin...
Overcoming ABD Pitfalls: Tips for Getting Unstuck
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ABD [All But Dissertation] phase can either feel liberating—no more coursework or comps!—or like the floor has dropped out. The scaffolding th...
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A unique and thorough work of intellectual history and legal scholarship Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (Cambridge Univ...
Tom Waidzunas et al., "Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times" (UMass Press, 2025)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 50 years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer professionals have organized to achieve greater inclusion into the fields of sc...
Steve Haberlin, "Meditation in the College Classroom: A Pedagogical Tool to Help Students De-Stress, Focus, and Connect" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023).
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This book provides background, strategies, and tips for higher education faculty and instructors interested in incorporating meditation in their class...
Pooja Agarwal, Cynthia Nebel, Veronica Yan, "Smart Teaching Stronger Learning: Practical Tips From 10 Cognitive Scientists" (Unleash Learning Press, 2025)
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can I help my students not only learn my course material but also retain and transfer that information? This is a question that has plagued and in...
Considering Leaving Academia?
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we again explore what it means to leave academia, as Dr. Sophia Basaldua-Sun shares how an informational interview was key to her success in lan...
Jennifer R. Nájera, "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education" (Duke UP, 2024)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education (Duke University Press, 2024), Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of e...
James M. Lang, "Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Teachers are subject matter experts that can distill information into manageable chunks for their students. In Write Like You Teach: Taking Your C...
Milton E. Clarke, "The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins" (Routledge, 2025)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins (Routledge, 2025), political scientist Milton Clarke c...
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m thrilled to launch a brand new series for the Princeton UP Ideas Podcast. 20 years ago, Princeton University Press published a short volum...
John Barr, "1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspe...
152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In RTB 151, you heard the Kristin, Nasser and John discussing what might happen before their Northeastern Victorian Studies Association conferenc...
151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most scholars are both haunted, even undone, by the task of writing papers for peers and traveling to strange campuses to deliver them. Yet we keep it...
Daniel Karpowitz, "College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outr...
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the...
Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why we must rethink our residency on the planet to understand the connected challenges of tribalism, inequity, climate justice, and democracy. How can...
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom--and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds. The...
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell UP, 2023) questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the o...
Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The teaching of copyright and related concepts can easily be overwhelming to instructors who are experts in their field but may have little to no deta...
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones explore the mounting political and financial pressures confronting higher education on both sides of the ...
Academic Librarians: A Discussion with Karen McCoy
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy ...
Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty-five years after the terrible shooting at Kent State University, I spoke with Brian VanDeMark, a Professor of History at the US Naval Academy, a...
Cora Lingling Xu, "The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China" (SUNY Press, 2025)
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Sha...
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts (Cambridge UP, 2025), readers are taken on a journey through the ...
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Universities are under attack, but what exactly are the threats? How does free speech in the last 10 years compare to today? What do we stand to lose ...
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Pano Kanelos, founding president of the University of Austin. A scholar and professor of Shakespeare studies, Panos’ advoc...
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does a general education from an Ivy League mean? What structures produce the course catalogues that students can choose to customize their educa...
Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2021, John and Elizabeth sat down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across discipli...
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neoliberal decision making, not the education system, write...
The World of Academic Publishing: A Conversation with Robert Dreesen
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do academic books get published? How do scholars turn dissertations and articles into the books we love? How does academic publishing compare to t...
Golden Age: Long after Retirement, these Professors are still Publishing
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Golden Age” by Heidi Landecker appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 4 September 2024. The article discusses the scholarship of Jean H....