Indoor Voices

Jeanne Theoharis (Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College) and Yoruba Richen (Directory of the Documentary Program at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) discuss Yoruba's recent film, How it Feels to Be Free, a documentary about six iconic African American women entertainers who champion civil rights and challenge racists stereotypes. Jeanne is the author of the award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. The two are collaborating on an upcoming project about Rosa Parks. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Amy Adamczyk, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, talks with Indoor Voices about her latest book. She is co-author, along with University of Notre Dame Sociology Professor Christian Smith, of Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM, talks with Kathleen Collins, librarian and professor at John Jay College's Lloyd Sealy Library, about Kathleen's book, From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television published by the University Press of Mississippi.

Edward Snadr and Shonna Trinch, John Jay College faculty and authors of What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn, talk with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris, faculty members at Guttman Community College, about their book, Gentrification Down the Shore, published by Rutgers University Press.

In this episode, two punk scholars - Raymond Patton and David Pearson - discuss how punk operates and frames itself in different contexts and time periods, including issues of diversity and multiculturalism and the experiences and participation of immigrants, women, people of color, and the continuum or rejection of politics and commercialism. The occasion is the recent publication of David's book, Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States (Oxford University Press). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more info.

Cathy Davidson, Dree-el Simmons and Tatiana Ades share their experiences in creating We Eat: A Student-Centered Cookbook as part of the "Introduction to Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences" class in Spring 2020 offered by The Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center.

The editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice talk with contributor Estha Weiner about her poetry. The biannual literary journal, edited by English department faculty Jeffrey Heiman and Adam Berlin, is produced at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Visit indoorvoicespocast.com.

John Jay College English dept. colleagues Allison Pease and Victoria Bond discuss Bond's finale to the award-winning trilogy, Zora and Me: The Summoner, a fictional series based on the life and work of anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Frederick Wasser, Professor in the Department of Television, Radio and Emerging Media at Brooklyn college, chronicles the sweeping account of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio. His book serves as a survey of American film history and "at times it becomes a history of the century itself."

Char Adams is a race and identity journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Teen Vogue, People Magazine, and more. She is also the digital editor of CUNY SUM, the website for research, books, and creative works generated at CUNY. Char is also the co-creator of a new podcast, COVID University New York. Visit our blog at indoorvoicespodcast.com for more info about Char, her work, and the podcast.