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The Academic Life

Christina Gessler

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. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

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49:53

Are We Done with Higher Education Rankings?

The Academic Life ·

2023/03/02

Why do most of the institutions of higher education in the United States participate in a rankings system? What do the rankings do? And what does it mean when some schools refuse to participate in rankings? This episode explores: How and why the ranking system got started. Who creates the ranking. Why the statics and data collected for it aren’t neutral or even necessarily accurate. What the rankings mean to prospective students, their families, and even alumni. Why some schools might have to

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57:38

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough

The Academic Life ·

2023/02/28

Why are people judged on whether or not they are compelling? Why isn’t telling the truth enough? What are people really listening for when others share their truths? And how does this harm asylum seekers? Dina Nayeri joins us to share: Why our perceptions of other people’s experiences impact them and us. What makes a “credible” story, and what doesn’t. How her own stories shape her. Why it can be difficult to believe a messy truth. What she had to forgive herself for. The book Who Gets

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49:59

The Connected PhD, Part Two

The Academic Life ·

2023/02/23

How can PhD programs prepare graduate students for future paths beyond academia? This episode explores: The positive effect on students when they are prepared to graduate with multiple career options. Why most jobs for graduating students will be located outside of academia. How students can build support networks outside of their own program. The importance of graduate student internships. Taking a broader view of what constitutes a “dissertation,” a “project,” and a career. Our guest is:

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57:32

A Primer for Teaching Digital History

The Academic Life ·

2023/02/16

Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers

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54:43

We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize...

The Academic Life ·

2023/02/09

Today’s book is: We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States. The “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship, and has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling

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59:44

The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars

The Academic Life ·

2023/02/02

Why is writing a grant proposal so stressful? Are you supposed to just know how to do it? This episode explores: How to align your values and interests with a grant opportunity. Why most of us will end up needing a grant. Things you can learn from a grant proposal that succeeded, and from one that didn’t. What your grant reviewer really needs from you and why. How to use the funder’s guidelines and terminology to your advantage. Why a guide book can help you write your grant proposal. A

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54:32

The Connected PhD, Part One

The Academic Life ·

2023/01/26

Why do PhD programs assume students will become professors, when most people find careers outside academia? How can we better prepare graduate students for the post-grad career path? This episode explores: What a “Connected PhD” program is, and why it’s necessary. The negative impact on students when they feel "less than" or as if they have failed when they can't land a tenure-track job. How to change the PhD so students graduate with multiple career options. Why faculty need to approach

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61:17

The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature

The Academic Life ·

2023/01/19

Today’s book is: The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, which is the 2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner. The Diné Reader showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose, in a wide-ranging anthology. The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental

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61:15

The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr....

The Academic Life ·

2023/01/12

What is the difference between global warming and climate change? This episode explores: What led Dr. Wu into STEM, and to the study of climate change. Why the term global warming is misleading, and potentially confusing. Why weather around the world is getting more extreme. What she foresees for the future, and what we can do to change that. Why human choices matter on much a larger scale than most people realize. A discussion of the article “Looking Back on America’s Summer of Heat, Floods,

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67:59

Why Did 48,000 UC Workers Go on Strike? A...

The Academic Life ·

2023/01/05

Why did thousands of workers at prestigious universities in the United States go on strike in 2022? How did we get to this historic moment, and is it really over? This episode explores: The myriad ways universities can wield power over workers and even their families. Why university workers are divided into different unions—and why some have no union representation at all. How inflation, student debt, housing shortages, health insurance access, and the constriction of the tenure-track put

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68:23

You Do Have A Right To Remain Fat: A Conversation...

The Academic Life ·

2022/12/29

Why are women judged for their size? What if you decided that you had the right to remain fat? This episode explores: Our born desire to like ourselves as we are. How we get shamed out of that at such a young age, and so very quickly. How hard it is to re-learn how to like yourself. Why our cultural commitment to fat-phobia harms us all. A Discussion of the book You Have the Right To Remain Fat. Our guest is: Virgie Tovar, who is an author, activist, and a lecturer on weight-based

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63:12

Archival Kismet: Lessons in Launching An Online...

The Academic Life ·

2022/12/22

What is the feeling of archival kismet? And how can we reimagine the format of academic conferences to better support scholars? This episode explores: The complex feelings of finding unexpected things in an archive. Why using conference presentations as openings for scholarly conversations is important. How Dr. Thompson founded an online conference during the pandemic, and her future plans for Archival Kismet. What can make online conferences more inclusive and inexpensive. Tips for feeling

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58:09

Belonging: A Conversation with Geoffrey Cohen

The Academic Life ·

2022/12/15

Why do we feel the need to belong, and what happens when we don’t? This episode explores: What it takes to belong. Why it physically hurts to be excluded. How perspective-gathering can help create more inclusion. A Discussion of the book Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides. Today’s book is: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, by Dr. Geoffrey Cohen, which explores how we became so alienated from one another, the physical and

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63:58

Finding Yourself in Difficult Conversations?

The Academic Life ·

2022/12/13

Why do so many difficult conversations happen over a school break, a holiday meal, or at an important family event? How can we better prepare ourselves, and start managing our expectations? This episode explores: Ways we can navigate difficult* conversations. Why we can stop trying to have the right answer. Questions to ask ourselves as we set our intentions and our boundaries. How to offer a heads up in advance of divulging surprising news. The importance of chosen families, and of friendship

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60:16

Misrepresentation on Campus: A Conversation with...

The Academic Life ·

2022/12/08

When a professor is not who they say they are, what does it take to get them to resign? This episode explores: How an anonymous twitter account and a media investigation helped Ms. Cyca reveal the truth about a professor misrepresenting their identity. Why professors can fail to fully acknowledge all the harm done to the students, staff, and community even after they are exposed. A discussion of the article The Curious Case of Gina Adams: A “Pretendian” Investigation. Our guest is: Michelle

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50:28

When Your Professor Asks You to Cheat: A Conversation...

The Academic Life ·

2022/12/01

We all know that academic integrity matters. But do we all agree on what academic integrity really is? Somewhere beyond the nuances and gray areas is blatant cheating. And that’s always wrong . . . but what if your professor asks you to cheat? This episode explores: How well students understand academic integrity. Why Dr. Heng Hartse designed a course that required cheating. What he and his students learned from it. How it feels to cheat, and why some students feel forced to do it. A discussion

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64:44

Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet: A...

The Academic Life ·

2022/11/22

Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What’s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode explores: The most commonly assigned Holocaust books. Why some of them are books you should never assign. Recommendations for books to assign, read, and share. Gaps in the literature. Gatekeepers of higher education. Susan’s wish-list. Our guest is: Susan Kusel, who is the Library Director at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Virginia. She is

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64:52

Scholar Skills: Unraveling Faculty Burnout

The Academic Life ·

2022/11/17

“I’m burned out” is a familiar phrase in higher ed these days. This episode explores: What burnout is and is not. One scholar’s personal experience with burnout. How higher ed’s culture and the “expectation escalation” encourage burnout. Academic capitalism and its relationship to faculty burnout. The missing voices from the conversation on burnout. Imposter syndrome and how it plays out for women, especially, in the academy. Our guest is: Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Director of the Office of

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70:46

Where Does Research Really Begin?

The Academic Life ·

2022/11/10

Today’s book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, which tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: “How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?” This easy-to-follow workbook guides you to find research

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48:22

Making the Most of Academic Conferences: Insights and...

The Academic Life ·

2022/11/08

You’re going to an academic conference—and maybe even presenting a project! Whether you are going virtually or in person, for the first time or the tenth, presenting or just attending, you want to feel prepared. Are you? This podcast episode explores: Why we need to go to academic conferences. Why it can be difficult to navigate them. How can you get the most of out of it. Our guest is: Dr. Thomas J. Tobin, who is a founding member of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring at the

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