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American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

a social and political history of higher education

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27:34

On reconstructing Cherokee education with Julie L. Reed

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/02/15

References and suggested readings: Julie L. Reed. 2026. Land, Language, and Women: A Cherokee and American Educational History. University of North Carolina Press. Jennifer Raff. 2023. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas. Twelve.Lisa Wingate. 2025. Shelterwood. Ballantine Books.Daniel H. Wilson. 2025. Hole in the Sky. Doubleday.Daniel Wilson. 2012. Robopocalypse. Vintage.Julie Reed’s faculty pageFollow Julie Reed on Bluesky and Threads: @jreedmo Support the show Browse the Ame...

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18:39

Black college women after emancipation with Linda...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/02/11

References and suggested readings: Linda M. Perkins. 2024. To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s. University of Illinois Press. Crystal R. Sanders. 2024. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. University of North Carolina Press. Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters. 2024. HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Johns Hopkins University Press.Noli...

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25:20

Your Data Will Be Used Against You with Andrew...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/02/08

How colleges collect our data. References and suggested readings: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2026. Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance. New York University Press. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson and Jonathan Yusef Newton. 2020. The Law of Law SchoolThe Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students. New York University Press.Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2019. The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. New York University ...

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37:14

Lynne Cheney and the National Endowment for the...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/02/04

One of our favorite culture warriors, Dr. Cheney. References and suggested readings: Mark Hlavacik. 2025. Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press. Mark Hlavacik. 2016. Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. Harvard University Press.Emma Whitford. January 7, 2026. Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review. Inside Higher Ed.Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato. New...

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43:11

Universities and the climate crisis with Bryan Alexander

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/28

References and suggested readings: Bryan Alexander. 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. Drew Miller. March 14, 2021. "No, Dolphins Did Not Reappear in Venice Canals: The Effects of COVID-19 on the Environment." University of Minnesota LawSci.Luke Kemp. 2025. Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Knopf.Future Trends ForumBryan’s Substackbryanalexander.org Support the show Browse the American Campu...

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62:13

"Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts," Aydelotte...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/25

Hi, listeners! A little bonus content for you. This is audio from a recent talk I gave with the brilliant Nayanika Ghosh. You'll also hear friend of the pod, Andy Hines, who moderated our conversation at the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College. You can read more about the event here. You can also follow along with the Aydelotte podcast, Podalot here. Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show ...

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41:43

On the myth of institutional neutrality with Brian...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/21

Register for “Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak in conversation,” Adeylotte Foundation, Swarthmore College References and suggested readings: Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. Kalven Committee: Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action, November 11, 1967. University of Chicago.La...

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37:52

You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner with Thomas Fallace

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/18

On the learning styles myth Register for “Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak in conversation,” Adeylotte Foundation, Swarthmore College References and suggested readings: Thomas Fallace. 2025. You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea. University of Chicago Press. Thomas D. Fallace. 2018. In the Shadow of Authoritarianism: American Education in the Twentieth Century. Teachers College Pre...

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39:36

Media, academia, and objectivity with Ayala Panievsky

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/14

And authoritarian attacks on all of the above. Request a future episode topic here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Ayala Panievsky. 2026. The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down. Footnote Press. Laura Gerbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce. 2024. Capturing News, Capturing Democr...

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35:33

Antiwar activism and police infiltration at the...

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2026/01/11

Request a future episode topic here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Martin J. Murray. 2025. Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973. University of North Texas Press.Beverly Gage. 2023. G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Penguin.Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 19...

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36:05

US Military Academy at West Point with John F. Morris

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/07

On all our favorite topics: imperialism, homosociality, liberalism, hazing! Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: John F. Morris. 2025. Students to Soldiers: Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945. University of Virginia Press.Max Egremont. 2012. Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Follow John Morris on Instagram @jfm_e...

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36:43

The peak and decline of US higher ed with Bryan...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/01/04

On the academy’s decline since 2011. References and suggested readings: Bryan Alexander. 2026. Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2022. Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2017. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The Ne...

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3:12

End of 2025 Questionnaire and Upcoming AMA

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/31

Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here Cheers! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu

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26:39

Claremonsters and MAGA intellectuals with Laura K. Field

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/28

Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Laura K. Field. 2025. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press. Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton). September 5, 2016. “The Flight 93 Election.” Claremont Review of Books.Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.Tanenhaus’s God and Man at Yale episode o...

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37:24

Christianity, manhood, and college football with...

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/24

1920s style! Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Hunter M. Hampton. 2025. The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America. University of Illinois Press. John Eisenberg. 2017. Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. huntermhampton.com Instagram @hunter_m_hamp...

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29:37

The best representatives of youth dissent? High...

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/21

High school organizers have much to teach us about young peoples' political priorities. Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Aaron G. Fountain Jr. 2025. High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America. University of North Carolina Press. Heather Ann Thompson. 2017. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its L...

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48:53

Liberal anticommunists and the prelude to McCarthyism...

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/17

References and suggested readings: Andrew Feffer. 2019. Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism. Fordham University Press. Daniel Immerwahr. 2018. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Édouard Louis. 2024. Monique s'évade. Seuil.Édouard Louis. 2023. Who Killed My Father? Translated by Lorin Stein. New Directions. Andrew Feffer on academia.eduCheck out upcoming AAUP eventsHigher Education Labor United (HELU)&n...

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27:17

School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital...

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/14

Remember your old school yearbook photos? Where are they now? Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for a future mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Kate Eichhorn. 2025. School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. Michael A. Messner. 2025. The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024. Rutgers University Press. Kate Eichhorn’s faculty page Support ...

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27:00

Conservatives and Classical education with Catherine...

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/10

References and suggested readings: Catherine Tebaldi. 2025. Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics. Routledge. Janet MacIntosh. 2024. Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press.Chelsea Ebin. 2024. Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. University Press of Kansas.Carl Neville. 2020. Eminent Domain. Repeater.Alexandra Kollontai. 2011. Red Love. Createspace Independent Publishing.Follow Cat Tebald...

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Inventing political science with Emily Hauptmann

American Campus Podcast ·

2025/12/07

References and suggested readings: Emily Hauptmann. 2022. Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970. University Press of Kansas. ACP episode on eugenics and the origins of statisticsACP episodes on funding and knowledge production: the academic-military-industrial complex and Gunnar Myrdal’s American DilemmaTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. 2023. The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities. Duke University Press.S...

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