Indoor Voices

Dr. Sarah Hoiland (Hostos Community College) talks with Dr. Calvin J. Smiley (Hunter College) about dismantling the prison industrial complex and shifting away from vengeful systems of reentry. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for information about Drs. Smiley and Hoiland.

Rich Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing at Lehman College, talks with Crissa-Jean Chappell, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and author of the recently published YA novel, Sun Don't Shine (Fitzroy Books, January 2024). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Faculty from LaGuardia Community College discuss the Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes grant from the US Department of Justice to fund a comprehensive prison-to-college project at Queensboro Correctional Facility. Prof. Hugo Fernandez interviews Profs. John Chaney and Joni Schwartz-Chaney. For more information on the program and guests, visit Indoorvoicespodcast.com

Ann Matsuuchi (LaGuardia Community College), Caron Knauer (LaGuardia Community College), and Sherry Antoine (AfroCROWD), discuss Knauer's book American Slavery on Film. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with Louis Bury, associate professor of English at Hostos Community College and author of The Way Things Go (punctum books, 2023). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with Dara Byrne, Dean of Macaulay Honors College. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with her CUNY librarian colleagues - Vikki Terrile, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College and Stephanie Margolin, Associate Professor and librarian at Hunter College – about pop culture scholarship in the academy and in their library careers.

Returning guest host Beth Harpaz talks with Helaine Helmreich, wife of the late Professor William Helmreich (Graduate Center/City College, Sociology) about Prof. Helmreich's recently published book, The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Jayashree Kamblé and Tara Hickman of LaGuardia Community College discuss Jayashree's book, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation] (Indiana University Press, 2023).

Lehman College professor Victoria Sanford talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Director for Communications & Marketing at Lehman, about her recently published book Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez & Her Father's Quest for Justice.