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Kathleen talks with Dr. Sara McDougall, professor of history at John Jay College and appointed in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her latest book is  Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor , (Princeton University Press, 2026). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Macushla Robinson, director of the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, talks with Candice Strongwater and Gauri Bahuguna, curators of the current exhibition, "Uneven Geographies." Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.

Kathleen talks with Talia Argondezzi , author of Bedtime Stories for Academics: Quibbles and Squabbles at Typical University ( University of Toronto Press ). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Dr. Brian Jones, Senior Director of Reading and Engagement at the New York Public Library, talks with Dr. Robert Robinson, assistant professor in Africana Studies and Gender Studies, Urban Studies, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at John Jay and the Graduate Center, about Brian's book Black History Is for Everyone . Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more information.

BONUS SUMMER EPISODE! Kathleen talks with Mark McBeth, Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, about his latest book  Objectionable: The Quasi-objects of Queer Literacy (Peter Lang, 2026). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with Martin Cloutier , adjunct assistant professor at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and author of the novel Waiting for Something Else (Heliotrope Books, 2025). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Adam McKible, Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, talks with LaGuardia Community College Professor of English Jesse Schwartz about Jim Crow Modernism , a volume co-edited with McKible, Keith Clark and Robert Jackson. For more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com

C. Julian Jiménez, playwright and Chairperson of the Department of Communication, Theatre, & Media Production at Queensborough Community College, talks with writer Elaina Battista-Parsons. For more information, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com .

Mila Burns , associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at Lehman College and of history at the CUNY Graduate Center, talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Lehman College, about her most recent book, Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War ,  published by the University of North Carolina Press. Visi...

City College (CUNY) professors Jennifer T. Roberts and Nickolas Pappas discuss Roberts's book,  Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture . Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Dr. Sarah Hoiland, Professor of Sociology at Hostos Community College, talks with City College political science student (Hostos student at the time of the recording) Ashley Walker about  Righteous Sisterhood: Politics and Power in an All-Women's Motorcycle Club . To learn more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.

Char Adams, CUNY Graduate Center alumna and author of   Black-owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore , talks with journalist, author, playwright and Char's former CUNY colleague, Beth Harpaz. Visit IndoorVoicespodcast.com to find out more.

Dr. Destry Maria Sibley, a CUNY Graduate Center alumna whose dissertation is entitled, "Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation" talks with Dr. María Julia Rossi,  Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of Narrar Las Madres . Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com to learn more.

Dr. Mark Christian (Lehman College Professor in Africana Studies & Sociology) talks about his latest book , Frederick Douglass: A life in American History (Bloomsbury 2025) with his Lehman colleague Dr. Gillian Bayne. To learn more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com .

Drs. Caroline Reitz and Olivia Rutigliano discuss Dr. Reitz's book Female Anger in Crime Fiction and the way anger is portrayed in popular culture, the role that anger plays, its potential and its limits. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com  for more.

Jennifer Laird, Assistant Professor in Lehman College's Department of Sociology talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Lehman, about Jennifer's book which she co-authored with Columbia University's Diana Hernandez. Powerless: The People's Struggle for Energy was published in April 2025 by the Russel Sage Foundation. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for...

LaGuardia Community College instructional technology librarian Ann Matsuuchi talks with CUNY's University Archivist and co-principal investigator of the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project, Natalie Milbrodt, and the university's Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice colleagues, Dr. Nathan Lents (Biology) and Dr. Olivera Jokić (English and Gender Studies), discuss Dr. Lents's new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.

In collaboration with the John Jay College Office for the Advancement of Research, Kathleen moderates a conversation about the value of the humanities with colleagues David Munns (History), Allison Pease (Provost & Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs), Belinda Rincon (Latin American and Latinx Studies and English), and Dean Ringel (History). A bonus segment includes a conversation with Dr. C...

Kathleen discusses her novel, Study in Hysteria (Vine Leaves Press, 2024), with Dr. April Burns, Associate Professor of Psychology at Guttman Community College . This CUNY Academy Book Talk was recorded live at the CUNY Graduate Center on March 5, 2025. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more information.

Author and CUNY museum studies graduate student  Elaina Battista-Parsons talks with Valerie Paley, senior vice president and the Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at The New York Historical . Learn more at IndoorVoicesPodcast.com .

Jean Mills, Associate Professor and chairperson in the English Dept. at John Jay College, and Ria Banerjee, Professor of English and Honors Program Coordinator at Guttman Community College and the Graduate Center, discuss Dr. Banerjee's book Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics and related topics. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Olivera Jokić (John Jay College) and Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College) discuss Past: An Introduction to the Problem: Želimir Žilnik on Film, Communism, and Former Yugoslavia , translated from Serbo-Croatian to English by Dr. Jokic. For more information, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com .  

Borough of Manhattan Community College colleagues, Diana Rickard and Tracy Bealer, talk about the true crime genre and Dr. Rickard's book The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence .   Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com to learn more.

Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins (NYU Press 2025) talks with Olivia Moy, faculty member in the English Dept. at CUNY Lehman College, about the educator, poet, activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther Party veteran. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.