Indoor Voices

Mark Carpentieri teaches public speaking at Queensborough Community College and is the owner of M.C. Records, a blues/roots music label based on the South Shore of Long Island. Mark is also a graduate of Queens College. In this interview, Mark shows the connection between public speaking and running a label, talks about the need for online teaching and learning, and explains what makes a good blues drummer. Suffice it to say, this interview covers a lot of ground.

As someone who loves music, talking to Mark about his life in the music industry was a real treat. As was his optimism about the music industry and about higher education.

In this episode, you'll hear David Pearson, adjunct faculty in the music and general studies departments at CUNY Lehman College, in conversation with Ray Patton, Associate Professor of History and Faculty Director of the Honors Program and Macaulay Honors College at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice. They discuss Ray's book, Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution (Oxford U. Press 2018). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more information.

Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM, talks with Matthew K. Gold, associate professor of English and director of the M.A. program in digital humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center and co-editor of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019.

Heidi Diehl, an adjunct lecturer and assistant director of the freshman composition program at Brooklyn College, discusses her new novel, Lifelines.

Dr. Jill Grose-Fifer is an associate professor in the psychology department at John Jay College. She thinks deeply about her teaching and works hard to keep it interesting, effective and relevant. She is thus far the only two time winner of John Jay's Distinguished Teaching Prize. Earlier this year, she co-authored a book with Patricia J. Brooks and Maureen O'Connor called Teaching Psychology: An Evidence-Based Approach. It's a practical and scholarly guide for teachers whether they're new to the job or looking to shake things up.

David Puglia explains the story and implications of "hon" in his book Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore Hon: The Folk in the City (Lexington Books 2018). David is a folklorist, an assistant professor in the English Dept of Bronx Community College and a native Bawlmorean.

Jean Halley is a professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island and she teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Masters Degree Program. She studies and writes about gender, sexuality, race and cultural normativity and many subsets therein. Her most recent book, and the one we really focus on in this episode, is Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, will be out in July and is published by the University of Georgia Press. To learn more about Jean's work, visit indoorvoicespodcast.com.

Nicole Bode teaches at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism and is the head of Newsroom Sustainability for Civil. Civil is a fascinating project designed to help journalism, which, you may have heard, is going through a bit of a rough patch.

Civil does interesting things, like using the blockchain to archive content. What that means for librarians is that content won't disappear. News content can disappear for a variety of reasons, both accidental and deliberate. Civil is working to make sure the historical record remains intact.

Civil is also using cryptocurrency as a tool to help news organizations get paid. If you're like me, you know nothing about what cryptocurrency really is, but it makes you vaguely nervous. The knock on Civil is that it's complicated. Nicole addresses that concern, pointing out that ATMs once seemed hopelessly complex to people. And now, much less so. Unless you're using one in front of me. Then, they become impossibly complicated.

Nicole also gets into the similarities between the struggles of journalism and the struggles of public higher education.

It's an accessible, informative interview.

I promise.

Quadira Coles, Vanessa Gutiérrez, Wilmarie Feliz and Akanksha Anand are graduate students at John Jay College and are recipients of the Tow Policy Advocacy Fellowship and the Pinkerton Community Graduate Fellowship, student development initiatives coordinated by the Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI).

Michael Rain is a 2017 alumnus of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He's the co-founder of ZNews Africa and founder of the Enodi project, a digital gallery that highlights the stories of first-generation black immigrants of African, Caribbean and Latin descent. This episode was recorded at the Made In NY Media Center, a collaborative workspace in Brooklyn where Michael recently completed a podcast certificate program produced through a partnership between the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and the Made in NY Media Center. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com where you can learn more about Michael's work.