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FAQs about American Campus Podcast:How many episodes does American Campus Podcast have?The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.
August 31, 2025NYT discovers community colleges, UChicago discovers crypto losses with Marshall SteinbaumThe Chicago boys would have loved digital assets. References and suggested readings:Alan Blinder and Steven Rich. August 25, 2025. The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think. New York Times. (Strongly recommend reading the comments)Teddy Gania. March 19, 2025. UChicago Lost Money On Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut. The Stanford Review.Richard J. Evans. 2005. The Coming of the Third Reich. Penguin Books.Marshall Steinbaum’s website, Twitter, and BlueskyBrowse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more21minPlay
August 27, 2025A gender, queer, and trans history of the British university with Sam RutherfordCollege, a nice time for nice ladies.References mentioned this episode:Samuel Rutherford. 2025. Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939. Oxford University Press. Sam’s website with a trans history reading list and a student handout for how to read in graduate level coursesEmily Cousens. 2025. Virginia Prince, Robert Stoller and the Trans Feminist Intellectual History of the Sex/Gender Distinction. History Workshop Journal.After Weimar; Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography and What Comes Next. German History, 43(2). June 2025.Sam’s Bluesky @echomikeromeo Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more52minPlay
August 24, 2025Before ChatGPT, there were MOOCs with Anne TrumboreA human history of ed techReferences mentioned this episode:Anne Trumbore. 2025. The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology. Princeton University Press.Anne Trumbore’s websiteAnne Trumbore’s LinkedInTimothy Burke. August 7, 2025. Academia: GPT University. Eight by Seven.Han Kang. 2025. We Do Not Part. Hogarth. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris.Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more32minPlay
August 20, 2025Developmental editing for scholarly writers with Laura Portwood-StacerOn making our academic writing a little more reader friendly.References mentioned this episode:Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2025. Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers. Princeton University Press.Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2021. The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors. Princeton University Press.LauraPortwoodStacer.comManuscript Works NewsletterElizabeth Wayland Barber. 2024. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years. W. W. Norton.Charles C. Mann. 2006. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd edition). Penguin Random House.Kenneth L. Feder. 2025. Native America: The Story of the First Peoples. Princeton University Press.Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more19minPlay
August 17, 2025The neuroscientists who fled Nazi Germany with Frank StahnischAnd, do US academics face a similar situation today?References mentioned this episode:Frank Stahnisch. 2025. Great Minds in Despair: The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989. McGill-Queen’s University Press.Susan E. Cayleff. 2016. Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America. Johns Hopkins University Press.Christopher Lawrence and George Weisz, eds. 1998. Holism: Greater Than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950. Oxford University Press. Kenneth J. Zahorski. 1994. The Sabbatical Mentor: A Practical Guide to Successful Sabbaticals. Anker Pub Co. Frank Stahnisch’s faculty pageBrowse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more45minPlay
August 13, 2025Religious colleges and their tax exemptions with Adam LaatsWe forgot to mention Bob Jones was the son of a Confederate veteran.References mentioned this episode:Adam Laats’s websiteAdam Laats. April 28, 2025. Trump Is Out for Revenge. The Chronicle of Higher Education.Jim Fraser. 2025. Religion and the American University. Johns Hopkins University Press.Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more27minPlay
August 10, 2025Eugenics and the creation of statistics with Akira O’Connor and Erin RobbinsOn the creation of the statistical tests we often use in human behavioral research, especially in the fields of psychology, education, economics, and political science.References mentioned this episode:Akira O’Connor and Erin Robbins. 2024.Colonised Minds: Narratives that Shape Psychology. Sage.Akira O’Connor’s website: aoc.omg.lolResources from Culture ClubBrowse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more18minPlay
August 06, 2025The “rise and fall” of prison education with Reiko HillyerFrom Johnson’s Great Society to Clinton’s crime bill, Reiko Hillyer discusses the “rise and fall” of higher education in US prisons. Plus, she shares her experience as a professor who teaches in prisons.References mentioned this episode:Reiko Hillyer. 2024. A Wall is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in 20th Century America. Duke University Press.Piper Hutchinson. May 2, 2025. “Guts, glory and opportunity on the outside.” Louisiana Illuminator.Classroom 4 film https://www.classroom4film.com/ Mneesha Gellman. 2022. Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach in Prison. Brandeis University Press.Justin McDevitt and Mneesha Gellman. 2024. Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison. Brandeis University Press.Lyndsay Faye. 2019. The Paragon Hotel. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.Attica Locke. 2012. The Cutting Season. Amistad.Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more43minPlay
August 03, 2025Angola prison: a college with Piper HutchinsonLouisiana State Penitentiary, a former plantation known simply as “Angola," is a site of higher education. Journalist Piper Hutchinson explains. References mentioned this episode:Piper Hutchinson. May 2, 2025. “Guts, glory and opportunity on the outside.” Louisiana Illuminator.Piper Hutchinson’s Substack: Louisiana Higher Ed WeeklyThis is a crawfishDaniel Bergner. God of the Rodeo: The Search for Hope, Faith, and a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison. Octavia Butler. Dawn.Douglas A. Campbell and Jon DePue. 2024. Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel.Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more21minPlay
July 30, 2025History of federal student loans with Elizabeth Tandy ShermerIn 2025, 45 million Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion in college debt. Ellie Shermer explains: “the story of skyrocketing college debt is not merely one of good intentions gone wrong. In fact, the federal student loan program was never supposed to make college affordable.” References mentioned this episode:Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. 2021. Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt. Harvard University Press.Education Data Initiative statistics on student debtGet involved with our friends at the Debt Collective to cancel student debtShermer’s BlueskyWilliam C. Mao and Veronica H. Paulus. May 2, 2025. Harvard University Press Employees Say Director Drove Down Acquisitions and Morale. Harvard Crimson.Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at [email protected] ...more50minPlay
FAQs about American Campus Podcast:How many episodes does American Campus Podcast have?The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.