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.

Books
Education
Careers
51
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of Americ...
A Discussion with Rachel Gross
54 min
52
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the...
An interview with Amy Reading
49 min
53
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Lif...
A Discussion with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
64 min
54
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
A Discussion with Ericka Kim Verba
59 min
55
Understanding Disinformation
A Discussion with H. Colleen Sinclair
50 min
56
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and ...
A Discussion with Marlene L. Daut
61 min
57
Tara Dorabji, "Call Her Freedom" (Simon and Sch...
An interview with Tara Dorabji
40 min
58
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's...
An interview with Rebecca Brenner Graham
51 min
59
Graduate School Myths and Misconceptions
An interview with Miroslava Chávez-García and Yvette Martínez-Vu
47 min
60
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare B...
A Discussion with Oliver Darkshire
49 min
61
A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names
A Discussion with Michelle D. Miller
54 min
62
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
A Discussion with Marion Gibson
49 min
63
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning ...
A Discussion with Amanda Jones
51 min
64
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
A Discussion with Sunaura Tayler
63 min
65
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with St...
39 min
66
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
A Discussion with Kellie Carter Jackson
49 min
67
Why Not Be Kind?: A Discussion with Catherine J...
44 min
68
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happe...
A Discussion with Allison Pugh
49 min
69
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Libe...
A Discussion with Zerlina Maxwell
70 min
70
Reunited: Family Separation and Central America...
A Discussion with Ernesto Castañeda
61 min
71
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to M...
A Discussion with Jamie Zvirzdin
54 min
72
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the Cali...
An interview with Donna J. Nicol
53 min
73
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misund...
An interview with Meredith Broussard
44 min
74
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Mispe...
A Discussion with Ernesto Castañeda
63 min
75
Before and After the Book Deal
A Discussion with Courtney Maum
57 min