Jennifer Laird, Assistant Professor in Lehman College’s Department of Sociology talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Lehman, about Jennifer’s book which she co-authored with Columbia University’s Diana Hernandez. Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy was published in April 2025 by the Russel Sage Foundation. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.
LaGuardia Community College instructional technology librarian Ann Matsuuchi talks with CUNY’s University Archivist and co-principal investigator of the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project, Natalie Milbrodt, and the university’s Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice colleagues, Dr. Nathan Lents (Biology) and Dr. Olivera Jokić (English and Gender Studies), discuss Dr. Lents's new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.
In collaboration with the John Jay College Office for the Advancement of Research, Kathleen moderates a conversation about the value of the humanities with colleagues David Munns (History), Allison Pease (Provost & Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs), Belinda Rincon (Latin American and Latinx Studies and English), and Dean Ringel (History). A bonus segment includes a conversation with Dr. Charissa Che, English department faculty at John Jay. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more information.
Kathleen discusses her novel, Study in Hysteria (Vine Leaves Press, 2024), with Dr. April Burns, Associate Professor of Psychology at Guttman Community College. This CUNY Academy Book Talk was recorded live at the CUNY Graduate Center on March 5, 2025. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more information.
Author and CUNY museum studies graduate student Elaina Battista-Parsons talks with Valerie Paley, senior vice president and the Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at The New York Historical. Learn more at IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
Jean Mills, Associate Professor and chairperson in the English Dept. at John Jay College, and Ria Banerjee, Professor of English and Honors Program Coordinator at Guttman Community College and the Graduate Center, discuss Dr. Banerjee’s book Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics and related topics. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
Olivera Jokić (John Jay College) and Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College) discuss Past: An Introduction to the Problem: Želimir Žilnik on Film, Communism, and Former Yugoslavia, translated from Serbo-Croatian to English by Dr. Jokic. For more information, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
Borough of Manhattan Community College colleagues, Diana Rickard and Tracy Bealer, talk about the true crime genre and Dr. Rickard’s book The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com to learn more.
Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins (NYU Press 2025) talks with Olivia Moy, faculty member in the English Dept. at CUNY Lehman College, about the educator, poet, activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther Party veteran. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
Kathleen talks with John Jay College English professor Adam Berlin about his new short story collection, All Around They’re Taking Down the Lights (Livingston Press 2024). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
Laura Katz Olson, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, discusses her novel, Wrinkled Rebels, with Olivia Wood, English Department Lecturer at City College. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
Mercedes Diez, Director of Communications and College Relations at Lehman College, and Professor Ulises Gonzales of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Lehman discuss Professor Gonzales’s new book, La Vida Papaya en Nueva York. For more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
Rebecca Bratspies and Natalie Gomez-Velez, professors at CUNY School of Law, discuss Professor Bratspies’ book, Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues and Heroes Behind New York's Place Names (Arcadia Publishing 2023).
Dr. Mark Christian, Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College and author of Booker T. Washington: A Life in American History and Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic, talks with Dr. William Seraile, professor emeritus of African American history at Lehman College.
Jeffrey Heiman and Adam Berlin, John Jay college English professors and editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice, talk with New York City College of Technology English professor George Guida whose latest novel is The Uniform (Guernica Editions, 2024).
Bryan Warde, professor in the social work program at Lehman College and in the social welfare doctoral program at the Graduate Center, discusses his most recent book, Colorblind: Indigenous and Black Disproportionality Across Criminal Justice Systems, with Lehman College’s Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing at Lehman, Richard Relkin. Visit indoorvoicespocast.com for more information.
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