The academic life - it’s pursuit of many. A lot of days, you get to be the smartest person in the room, and on other days you get to hang out with the other smartest people from other rooms. It seems great.

In previous generations, the idea of a university professor who skates would have been out of the question. Isn’t that stuff for kids?

More and more, as the dynamic of this whole world we inhabit grows and changes, we know of folks who excel in both academic and skate spaces. Maurice Crandall is one of those people.

At top of his field in History, specifically the history of Native American cultures of the Southwest, he’s taught at Dartmouth and Arizona State University, is published plenty, and is active in his community. Also, the dude rips.

We talked to Maurice, or, as many know him, Mo, today on the pod about academic life in general, Native American cultures (and what people get wrong about them), working at a casino, how skating entered his life, and what it’s like too exist in both the worlds of academia and skateboarding. We also engaged in a spirited round out This or That :)

Additionally, we talk about his involvement in Slow Impact, which is only a couple weeks away. See you there.

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