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
1
Secrets of the Killing State
65 min
2
Considering Leaving Academia?
49 min
3
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racializ...
40 min
4
Trans Technologies
59 min
5
Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conv...
57 min
6
The Freedom Academy
49 min
7
Brittany Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lie...
43 min
8
Live from the Underground: A History of Colleg...
48 min
9
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
An interview with Padraic X. Scanlan
65 min
10
Academic Librarians: A Discussion with Karen McCoy
An interview with Karen McCoy
50 min
11
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Cont...
An interview with Agnieszka Pasieka
66 min
12
You Have More Influence Than You Think
An interview with Vanessa Bohns
52 min
13
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the...
An interview with Karen L. Cox
49 min
14
Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other An...
An interview with Jaap de Roode
50 min
15
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and...
An interview with Roberta Mazza
52 min
16
What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform ...
A Discussion with Susan Sturm
47 min
17
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spiritualit...
An interview with Wylin Wilson
54 min
18
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in a...
A Discussion with Shannon Vallor
54 min
19
Project Management for Researchers
A Discussion with Shiri Noy
59 min
20
The Burnout Workbook
A Discussion with Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski
55 min
21
Teaching With Positive Psychology Skills
A Discussion with Kai Zhuang Shum
48 min
22
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of Americ...
A Discussion with Rachel Gross
54 min
23
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the...
An interview with Amy Reading
49 min
24
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Lif...
A Discussion with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
64 min
25
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
A Discussion with Ericka Kim Verba
59 min