American Campus Podcast

Colleges really come out on top in the education-industrial complex. References and suggested readings: Alexandre Frenette. 2026. Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy . Princeton University Press.  Alexandre Frenette’s faculty page John Wynn. 2025. The Set Up . Belt Publishing. Nina Bandelj. 2026. Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting . Princeton Universi...

Create your own college ranking list! The parameters are totally up to you. Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu. JBF will pick the winner of MANY FREE BOOKS! References and suggested readings: JonathanBeecherField.net   Scott Romine. 2024. The Zombie Memes of Dixie . University of Georgia Press. Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 2007. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California...

The International Olympic Committee’s decision to sex test professional athletes, and what that means for college sports.  References and suggested readings: Johanna Mellis faculty profile End of Sport podcast  Feminist Sport Lab Johanna Mellis in The Guardian and Los Angeles Times Rachel Reid. 2024. Game Changers . Carina Press. (Heated Rivalry book series) Pride and Prejudice 1995 BBC adaptation...

References and suggested readings: Scott M. Gelber. 2024. From Compensation to Accommodation: The History of Learning Disabilities in American Higher Education . History of Education Quarterly . Scott M. Gelber. 2020. Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning . Johns Hopkins University Press. Scott M. Gelber. 2015. Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American Col...

It only flows one way. References and suggested readings: Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2026. Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution . Princeton University Press.  Dwai Banerjee’s faculty page @dwai_banerjee on X, @dwaibanerjee on Instagram  Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

References and suggested readings: Danielle Casarez Lemi. 2026. Doing Identity Labor: How Mixed-Race Politicians Disrupt Descriptive Representation . Oxford University Press. Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi. 2021. Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites . Oxford University Press. Kelly Clancy’s Epilogue Editing Maria Ressa. 2023. How to Stand Up to a Dict...

References and suggested readings: John P. Jackson, Jr. 2005. Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown V. Board of Education . New York University Press.  John P. Jackson, Jr. 2001. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation . New York University Press. John P. Jackson, Jr. books on bookshop.org John P. Jackson, Jr. website Text the show here! S...

References and suggested readings: Mark S. Ferrara. 2015. Palace of Ashes: China and the Decline of American Higher Education . Johns Hopkins University Press.  Tessa Hulls. 2025. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Novel . Picador.  Olga Tokarczuk. 2025. House of Day, House of Night . Riverhead Books.  Daniel Biebuyck. 2021. The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga . The University of California Press.  Mark Ferr...

Plus! Voltaire, antisemitism, the West as a concept, and the Great Replacement theory References and suggested readings: Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate . Yale University Press.  Dozier’s website, Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics Dan-el Padilla Peralta. 2025. Classicism and Other Phobias . Princeton University Press....

"Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Western Culture's got to go!" References and suggested readings: John K. Wilson. February 19, 2026. Jesse Jackson and the Myth of the Stanford Chant . Inside Higher Ed. John K. Wilson. 1995. The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education . Duke University Press. Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diver...

References and suggested readings: Joshua Tait. January 12, 2026. “ Stitching Banners to an Exiled King”: Triumph, Radical Traditionalism, and the Temptation of Despair . To Live is to Maneuver. Daniel J. Flynn. 2025. The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer . Encounter Books. Tait’s To Live is To Maneuver newsletter The Associated Press. May 17, 2024. Conservative ac...

Imperialism! Protestantism! Liberal Pragmatism! References and suggested readings: Betty S. Anderson. 2011. The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education . University of Texas Press. Betty Anderson’s faculty page Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

References and suggested readings:  Alan Blinder. February 16, 2026. Epstein’s Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising . New York Times . William Callison and Quinn Slobodian. January 12, 2021. Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol . Boston Review . Melinda Cooper. February 14, 226. Epstein Family Values . Equator . Luke Darby. August 19, 2019. Private jets, part...

Sort of. References and suggested readings: Julie J. Park. 2026. Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era . Harvard Education Press.  Class Action website: joinclassaction.edu Ingrid A. Nelson. 2024. Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses . University of Chicago Press. Belle Burden. 2026. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriag...

A homegrown science. References and suggested readings: Mark A. Torres. 2025. Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance . The History Press.  Rebecca Brenner Graham. 2025. Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany . Citadel. Mark Torres’s website marktorresauthor.com Follow Mark on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook @MarkTorresAut...

References and suggested readings: Hope Pisoni. February 18, 2026. Campus Conservatives See Resurgence in the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk . Uncloseted Media .  Hope Pisoni. January 30, 2026. Campus conservatism rebounds in the wake of Charlie Kirk, targeting LGBTQIA+ communities . Gay Times.   Strphany Matat. October 28, 2025. DeSantis warns schools, partners with Turning Point USA to create more Fl...

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...

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...

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 School: The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students . New York University Press. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2019. The Rise...

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 H...

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 ....

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 . Text the show here! Support the s...

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 t...

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 t...

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 . Princet...