The Academic Life

A podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Created and produced by Dr. Christina Gessler, the Academic Life podcast is inspired by today’s knowledge-producers around the world, working inside and outside the academy.

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Education
Careers
251
Inside Look: Campus Mental Wellness Services
An interview with Elisabeth Gonella
46 min
252
Pandemic Perspectives: Graduating, Job Searchin...
An interview with Alex Schmied
49 min
253
An Inside Look at the American Historical Assoc...
An interview with Laura Ashley
54 min
254
Marketing Your Scholarly Book: A Discussion wit...
An interview with Mona Rosen Hamlin
45 min
255
Pandemic Perspectives from a Recent College Gra...
An interview with Amy Sumerfield
48 min
256
A Field Guide to Grad School: A Conversation wi...
An interview with Jessica McCrory Calarco
60 min
257
Meditation for the Academic Life: A Discussion ...
An interview with Lori Snyder
45 min
258
Pandemic Perspectives from a University Admini...
An interview with James D. Breslin
51 min
259
University Press Submissions and the Peer Revie...
An interview with Rachael Levay
43 min
260
Pandemic Perspectives: From a Vice President of...
An interview with Zebulun Davenport
51 min
261
The Self-Care Stuff: Parenting and Personal Lif...
An interview with Kyl Myers
59 min
262
Pandemic Perspective from an Adjunct: A Discuss...
An interview with Dawn Fratini
43 min
263
How to College: A Conversation with Lara Hope S...
An interview with Lara Hope Schwartz and Andrea Malkin Brenner
54 min
264
Exploring Careers After Graduation: Writing for...
A Conversation with Elizabeth C. Bunce
58 min
265
Pandemic Perspectives: Three Students Share
An interview with Will Sumerfield, Branislav Petrovic, and Olivia Sumerfield
101 min
266
Exploring STEM, Insulin Research, and Why We Ge...
An interview with Benjamin Bikman
59 min
267
Faculty versus Administrative Positions: A Disc...
An interview with Karin Lewis
52 min
268
Pandemic and the Student Parent: A Discussion w...
An interview with Brooke Lombardi
46 min
269
How to Navigate Mid-Career Choices as a Faculty...
An interview with Vicki Baker
50 min
270
The Role of Community Colleges in Higher Educat...
An interview with Penny Wills
60 min
271
How to Work Toward Diversity and Inclusion in C...
Practical tips on increasing diversity and inclusion on campus...
47 min
272
How to Stop Chasing Happiness and Make a Meanin...
What is the meaning of life? You can find out by making your own life meaningful...
47 min
273
How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job
So you are leaving academia. What now?
48 min
274
On Writing Well for Trade: A Conversation with ...
In this episode you’ll hear: differences between trade books and monographs, how to translate academic scholarship for wider audiences, risks and rewards of writing for trade, and trade books as a means to address justice issues related to access to knowledge and audience hierarchies...
47 min
275
The Self-Care Stuff: Considering Whether to Sta...
In this episode you’ll hear about: navigating academia as a STEM student, getting pregnant and parenting while still a student, and difficult decisions about dropping out or staying in academia...
50 min