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on the history and political economy of higher education

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Send us a text In 1926, an NYU professor took to the high seas with 500 undergraduates on a worldwide learning voyage. The experimental "Floating University" docked for excursions at nearly 50 ports, where students were introduced to world leaders Mussolini, Gandhi, and others. Tamson Pietsch recounts the endeavor, unpacking the larger story of US intellectual imperialism in the 1920s. Tamson Pietsch. 2023. The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. University...
Send us a text Huey Long, Louisiana's notorious Depression-era governor and rumored presidential challenger to FDR, doesn't get enough recognition for his role in the expansion of LSU's campus throughout the 1930s. Listen as Bob Mann recounts Long's legacy at Kingfish U. Robert Mann. 2023. Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU. Louisiana State University Press. Check out Robert Mann's other worksRead Robert Mann on SubstackFollow Robert Mann on BlueskyBrowse Niall Williams’s novels Support ...
Send us a text Kendell Gerdes unpacks popular depictions of "sensitive students" throughout the 2010s. She tackles safe spaces, trigger warnings, #BlackOnCampus, and other student calls for accessibility over the last few years, showing how these matters are not in opposition to faculty academic freedom. Links mentioned in the episode: Kendall Gerdes. 2024. Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism. University of Pittsburgh Press. (Use code 29GERDES30 for 30% off)Follow Kendal...
Send us a text This is Part II of an earlier discussion with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Lau (1974), Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out Collin's recent book, The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. Mike Steven Collins. 2024. The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. University Press of Kansas.Listen to Pa...
Send us a text This is Part I of a two-part interview with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out Collin's recent book, The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. Mike Steven Collins. 2024. The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. University Press of Kansas.Heather McGhee. 2022. The ...
Send us a text Will Teague discusses the activism of Iranian international students who were studying in the US during the end of the 1970s. Will Teague. 2024. Resistance/Rise: Iranian Student Activism in the Late 1970s US. History of Education Quarterly. Reza Aslan. 2022. An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville. W. W. Norton. Timothy Snyder. 2024. On Freedom. Penguin Random House.Will Teague. 2018. “Hostages of the Crisis: Iranian Students in Arkans...
Send us a text Abercrombie and Fitch is back, millennials and gen x-ers! Ethan Lascity takes us for a walk down memory lane in a discussion ofLegally Blonde, Drumline, Van Wilder, and other college movies of the aughts. Myles Ethan Lascity. 2024. The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680910/the-abercrombie-age/ Lyz Lenz. 2024. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and S...
Send us a text In 1960, California experimented with tuition-free college for all public campuses in the state. As Andrew Higgins explains in Higher Education for All (UNC Press, 2023), the California Master Plan actually worked to make higher education more unequal for students. As calls for free college have gained traction in the 20th century, Higgins reminds us of critical shortcomings of the Cold War California experiment. Andrew Stone Higgins. 2023. Higher Education for All: Racial Ineq...
Send us a text Adrian Daub explains the recent history of the cancel culture moral panic. Adrian Daub. 2024. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/cancel-culture-panic Jennifer Burns. 2023. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374601140/miltonfriedman Samuel L. Catlin. 2024. The Campus Does Not Exist: How Campus War is Made. ...
Send us a text Asheesh Siddique discusses the colonial creation of college trustee boards and explains how trustees govern our institutions today. Asheesh Siddique. 2024. The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267716/the-archive-of-empire/ Asheesh Siddique. 2021, May 19. Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvog...
Send us a text Jasmine Harris discusses the historic experiences of Black women students and faculty at predominantly white colleges. Jasmine L. Harris. 2024. Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education. Broadleaf Books. https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506489834/Black-Women-Ivory-Tower Jasmine L. Harris’s website: https://www.drjasmineharris.com/ Heather Terrell and Victoria Christopher Murray. 2022. The Personal Librarian. ...
Send us a text Ellen Schrecker discusses the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education. She walks us through her 1986 book, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Nearly four decades after publication, it is no less timely. Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press.Ellen Schrecker. 2021. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago...
Send us a text Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s. His book, The Krebiozen Hoax, helps us contextualize decades of conflicts surrounding medical ethics, pseudoscience, and health disinformation through the setting of a postwar midwestern campus. Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press. https:...
Send us a text Kelly L. Marino discusses college women's role in the suffrage movement. Listen to hear more about her new book, Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign (New York University Press, 2024). Kelly L. Marino. 2024. Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/Michael Roy. 2024. Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Moveme...
Send us a text Katherine Rye Jewell "hits" the high notes of the history of college radio. Listen to her discuss her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). katherinejewell.com Katherine Rye Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677255/live-from-the-underground/ Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory...
Send us a text Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva discuss their book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). Follow Nathan, Derek, and their co-host Johanna Mellis on The End of Sport podcast. Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. 2024. The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/Derek Sil...
Send us a text Crystal Sanders discusses her book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). Crystal R. Sanders. 2024. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679808/a-forgotten-migration/ Dylan C. Penningroth. 2023. Before the Movement: The Hidden History...
Send us a text Gregg Michel discusses his book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South (Louisiana State University Press, 2024). Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. Louisiana State University Press. https://lsupress.org/9780807182222/spying-on-students/ Gregg L. Michel. 2004. Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969. Palgrave MacMillan....
Send us a text Sharon Stein discusses her book, Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). Stein's Academia page: https://ubc.academia.edu/SharonStein Sharon Stein. 2022. Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12600/unsettling-university Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. 2021. Hospicing M...
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