New Books in Higher Education
Episodes
Sharing Lessons From His Working-Class Parents: A Conversation with Dr. Jorge Juan Rodríguez
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are students encouraged to move far from home and family, to attend “the best school”? Why aren’t the emotional and physical costs of this d...
Phoebe Ho et al., "Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America" (U California Press, 2022)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do children and adolescents transition to adulthood in today’s America? How have American society’s entrenching economic inequality and increa...
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Almost every student that will enroll in a college Shakespeare course can expect two things. Students will have to engage with the style and themes of...
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plag...
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
20 Jun 2023
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 ...
Myka Kennedy Stephens, "Integrated Library Planning: A New Model for Strategic and Dynamic Planning, Management, and Assessment" (ACRL, 2023)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many library project plans, from small projects to institution-wide strategic planning committees, follow a linear trajectory: create the plan, do the...
Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of national provision for training an...
Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari, "Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (Open Book Publishers, 2023) consists of narratives of migrant academics from ...
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities. Open access (OA) could one day put th...
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Aut...
Academic Ghosting
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been ghosted in academia? The mentor who no longer replies when you reach out, the collaborators who mysteriously stopped collaborating ...
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the sc...
Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, wha...
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philos...
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of education? In Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (Routledge, 2022), Jen Ross, a senior lecturer...
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of person is our education system designed to create? Best-selling author and award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz discusses the failu...
Efficient Academic Writing: A Discussion with Mushtaq Bilal
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mushtaq Bilal is an academic, content creator, thought leader, and public intellectual. Mushtaq discusses how he built an audience of more than 185,00...
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, "The 'Third' United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think" (Oxford UP, 2021)
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss' book The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the T...
Yang Va Lor, "Unequal Choices: How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their so...
Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paulo Freire offers activists and academics everywhere a lesson in what it means to be a radical intellectual. He is known as the founder of critical ...
Navigating the Community College Job Market
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a community college job interview different than one at a four-year college or a university? Do you need a PhD to get hired? What are they ...
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice and Restlessness with Ben and Jenna Storey
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What kinds of tools do we need to make big decisions, and why aren't our universities training us to make them? Are universities doing students a diss...
The Business of College Sports: The Impact of NIL on NCAA Athletes
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, the NCAA began allowing student-athletes to receive compensation. NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) rule changes give student-athletes the righ...
Making a “Junk Drawer” CV
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can the things you normally leave off of a CV help you navigate the job market? What if you made a list of all of the highs and the lows of your a...
Daniel A. Bell, "The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University" (Princeton UP, 2023)
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I am not now nor at any time have ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet I serve as dean of a large faculty of political science...
Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert, "Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During Leo Lambert’s 19-year tenure as president at Elon University, the institution moved from a regional college to becoming one of the U.S.’s t...
Bryan Alexander, "Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), futurist Bryan Alexander explores higher education during ...
The Politicization of Science: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How are hiring and admissions decisions made in the hard sciences if not by merit? What are the risks of allowing science to be politicized? Professor...
The Capitulation of MIT: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invit...
Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is academic freedom for? What are the greatest threats to academic freedom today? Should Critical Race Theory be taught on college campuses? What...
Do You Have Imposter Syndrome?
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do so many students and academics worry that they are imposters? Is it normal to experience this kind of self-doubt? This episode explores: The d...
Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023) by Philip Ewell is an unflinching look at white su...
Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Jay Ke-Schutte on his just released book, Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations (U ...
Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Jan Recker, Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, Germany and author of ...
Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
State censorship and cancel culture, trigger warnings and safe spaces, pseudoscience, First Amendment hardball, as well as orthodoxy and groupthink: u...
Rachel Dunn et al., "What Is Legal Education For?" (Routledge, 2022)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This book delves deep into the question of what is legal education for? Who does it serve, and how, as educators can we reflect on what we deliver in ...
Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why read the Classics, and how to do it best? Louis Petrich teaches at St. John’s College, the third-oldest college and “the nation's most contra...
John Bond, "The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writing and publishing are at the heart of most academic and research pursuits. Many potential authors, however, feel lost in the seemingly Everest cl...
Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when jobs in academia are scarce, and few of the descriptions of jobs outside academia seem like a fit? How can graduates find the right ...
Transforming the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have an engaging discussion with Dr. Dan Greenstein, who in 2018 left the Gates Foundation, where he led the Post-Secondary program, to become the ...
Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman. "Feminists Reclaim Mentorship" (SUNY Press, 2023)
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorship continues to loom large in stories about women's work and personal lives-- sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. If mentors ca...
Locke, Tocqueville, and Civic Education: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sikkenga
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is education so important in a democracy? Are democracies capable of producing the citizens they need? What do John Locke and Alexis de Tocquevill...
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton UP, 2020) offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the libera...
Strong Ideas from MIT Libraries and the MIT Press
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gita Manaktala, Editorial Director at the MIT Press, and Ellen Finnie, Co-Interim Associate Director for Collections at MIT Libraries...
Cynical Theories: A Conversation with James Lindsay
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is postmodernism? Does the Biden Administration support Critical Race Theory? How might a recommitment to classical liberal principles help fight...
Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study" (Pluto Press, 2022)
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intelle...
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities (UNC Press, 2018), by Jonathan Coley. Al...
Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the "great books"? What makes them great? Is the cultivation of an intellectual life especially important to citizens of a democratic republi...
The Connected PhD, Part Three
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can a PhD program pivot from a professoriate-apprenticeship system, to one that is mindful of students’ post-grad career goals? This episode com...
Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League an...
Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after Wor...
Liz Curran, "Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education" (Routledge, 2021)
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education (Routledge, 2021) I spoke with Dr Liz Curran about the urgent need f...
Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard's Department of Social Relations made history in the 1950s and 1960s as the most ambitious program in social science in the United States. Ded...
Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal or...
The Hippie High-Rise: Rochdale College, Toronto’s Communal Living High Rise Free Education Experiment
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1968 to 1975 one high-rise was the heart of Canada’s counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippi...
"Prettier Than They Used to Be”: Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Kelley, member of the NEQ editorial board, interviews Deirdre Clemente about her article "'Prettier Than They Used to Be': Femininity, Fashion, a...
James W. Cortada, "Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments and Businesses" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over twenty years, James W. Cortada has pioneered research into how information shapes society. In Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Rev...
Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It is not only for science to give to publishing, but the time has come for publishing to start giving back to science." Tiffany Gasbarrini clarif...
Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, by Dr. Alex D. Ketchum. Public scholarship—s...
How to Reach People with Your Research: A Discussion with Elissa Redmiles
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Elissa Redmiles, Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems; Founder and M...
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Gondek interviews Mitchel Resnick about his work at the MIT Media Lab, the foundation for his new book, Lifelong Kindergarten. In kindergartens...
Open Access in Humanities Publishing: A Discussion with Irene Van Rossom of Amsterdam UP
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Irene Van Rossom and Avi do a deep dive into how Open Access works (or doesn't work) in the context for book manuscripts in the Humanities. Listeners...
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus. Safe spaces, trig...
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisic...
Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions (Routledge, 2022) bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, a...
Stephen E. Neaderhiser, "Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres" (Utah State UP, 2022)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres (UP of Colorado, 2022) explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents t...
Profitability and University Press Publishing: A Discussion with Stanford UP's Alan Harvey
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Harvey, Director of Stanford University Press, sits with Avi to discuss why it is so challenging for scholars to write and publish books and to d...
Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male "problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable: Politics and Paradox...
The Connected PhD, Part Two
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can PhD programs prepare graduate students for future paths beyond academia? This episode explores: The positive effect on students when they are...
Making Open Access Work for Both Readers and Authors
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Denne (Director of Publishing, Academic Books, Cambridge UP) joins Avi to discuss how Open Access quickly became a predominant form of academic...
From Manufacturing Floor to University Press Editorial Director
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Schwartz joins Avi for a fascinating discussion about the relationship between Columbia University and the Press and how they bounced back after...
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital...
The History of Student Loans in the United States
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, talks about her book, Indentured Students: How Government-Gua...
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States. The “Dreamer narrative” celebrate...
The Art of Translating Academic Research
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Crewe talks about how translation became a key component of the Columbia University Press publishing program and how the press decides which...
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the Biden Administration's student loan relief coming down the pike, Annika sits down with Dr. Beth Akers, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterp...
The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is writing a grant proposal so stressful? Are you supposed to just know how to do it? This episode explores: How to align your values and inter...
Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to s...
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice, Restlessness, and Higher Education
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What kinds of tools do we need to make big decisions, and why aren't our universities training us to make them? Are universities doing students a diss...
Michael T. Rizzi, "Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History (Catholic University of America Press, 2022) provides a comprehensive history of J...
The Connected PhD, Part One
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do PhD programs assume students will become professors, when most people find careers outside academia? How can we better prepare graduate student...
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, w...
Engineering and Social Justice
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Riley, professor and head of the school of engineering education at Purdue University, talks about her path, her work, and her 2008 book, Engine...
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Davarian L. Baldwin is a professor of American studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. His latest ...
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) offers the first overarching history of the human...
Richard Davenport-Hines, "Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College Oxford" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All Souls College Oxford was one of the meeting points of English public intellectuals in the twentieth century. Its Fellows prided themselves on agre...
Criticism Amplified: New Media and the Podcast Form
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Criticism: New Platforms” organized by Anna Korn...
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a roundtable discussion on the influence of the neoliberal project on higher education. Our guests are Professor Emeritus Frank Fear f...
Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specialist in Antebellum American literature and cultur...
Why Did 48,000 UC Workers Go on Strike? A Conversation with Dr. Trevor Griffey
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why did thousands of workers at prestigious universities in the United States go on strike in 2022? How did we get to this historic moment, and is it ...
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the Supreme Court poised to potentially outlaw race-conscious admissions, Affirmative Action may soon be on the chopping block. What will be the ...
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis ...
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 4--Careers Beyond the Academy
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (p...
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-pu...
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 3--Deciding to Leave the Academy
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (p...
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside of Academia: Part 2--A View from Inside
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (p...
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 1--The Job Search and Job Market
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (p...
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against a...
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research proce...
Philippe Peycam, "Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era" (Brill and ISEAS, 2020)
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened when a range of aid agencies, private donors, activis...