Indoor Voices

Nicole Treska (CCNY alum and adjunct professor) talks with Michelle Valladares (CCNY MFA Creative Writing director) about her forthcoming memoir, Wonderland (Simon & Schuster, Fall 2023).

John Jay College Associate Professor of History David Munns talks about his co-authored book, Far Beyond the Moon ; A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age, with Richard Relkin, John Jay's Director of Media Relations. Visit us at IndoorVoicesPodcast.com  

Dr. Rebecca Shapiro is an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in the English Department at New York City College of Technology and the author of Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography . She talks with former student Estephanie Montero about language learning. Visit us at indoorvoicespodcast.com .

Cynthia Tobar, faculty librarian and head of archives at Bronx Community College, talks with Gregory Sholette and Chloë Bass about Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY), a unique pedagogical initiative that supports the integration of art with interdisciplinary research, community collaboration, environmental justice and urban studies.

Kathleen talks with Molly Rosner, Director of Education Programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College, about her book, Playing with History: American Identities and Children's Consumer Culture.

Claire Stewart , Associate Professor in the Hospitality Management Program at CUNY's New York City College of Technology, talks with former student and CUNY BA program alumnus,  Daniel Vater , about his multi-faceted culinary career.

Hannah Kavanagh, a Hunter@Macaulay senior, talks with Kathleen about producing and hosting the first student-run podcast at CUNY, CUNY Uncut . Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Khánh Lê (Queens College and the Graduate Center) talks with adjunct professor Julian Costa (NYC College of Technology) and Gabriel Da Silva (Pace University) about the book they've recently completed, What They Know: Reflections of Vietnam, a project originally started by Dr. Rebecca Dean in the 1980s. To learn more, visit Indoorvoicespodcast.com .

Michelle Valladares , Director of the MFA in Creative Program and Lecturer in English at City College, talks with Kathleen about the program, its providential Harlem location, and why it's seeing an unprecedented number of enrollments.

Erin Thompson , Associate Professor of Fraud, Forensics, Art Law & Crime in the Department of Art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Todd Fine, CUNY Graduate Center PhD candidate and president of the Washington Street Advocacy Group , talk about Erin's forthcoming book, S mashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments . 

Yarimar Bonilla , Professor in the Department of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, assumes the role of Acting Director of El Centro , the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, on July 1. In this episode, she talks with Vanessa Valdés, Director of the  Black Studies Program and Professor of Spanish an...

Jeremy Caplan, director of teaching and learning at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, talks with Michael Rain, alumnus and founder of research and media company Enodi , about the J school's new online intensive Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators program.

John Jay College librarian and professor Jeffrey Kroessler and architect Laura Heim discuss their book, Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb , with Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more information.

Alisse Waterston (John Jay) and Charlotte Corden talk with Kathleen about their graphic novel, Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning published by the University of Toronto Press.

Cynthia Tobar, Head of Archives at Bronx Community College, talks with Molly Rosner, Assistant Director of Education Programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College and Summer Walker, a student in la Guardia's Commercial Photography program, about their project Portraits of an Epicenter: NYC in Lockdown .

New York City College of Technology librarians Junior Tidal and Nora Almeida discuss their podcast, City Tech Stories , and Junior's new book, Podcasting: A Practical Guide for Librarians .

CUNY Grad Center and Manifold fellow alum Jojo Karlin describes her doodle-based note taking process. She talks about how and why she came to draw her dissertation on Virginia Woolf, about the experience of taking visual notes both in person and via Zoom, about digital humanities, open access, the Manifold digital platform, and the call to be curious at heart of the Graduate Center .

Jeanne Theoharis (Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College) and Yoruba Richen (Directory of the Documentary Program at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) discuss Yoruba's recent film, How it Feels to Be Free , a documentary about six iconic African American women entertainers who champion civil rights and challenge racists stereotypes. Jeanne is the author of the award-...

Amy Adamczyk, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, talks with Indoor Voices about her latest book. She is co-author, along with University of Notre Dame Sociology Professor Christian Smith, of Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM , talks with Kathleen Collins , librarian and professor at John Jay College's Lloyd Sealy Library , about Kathleen's book, From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television published by the University Press of Mississippi. 

Edward Snadr and Shonna Trinch, John Jay College faculty and authors of What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn , talk with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris, faculty members at Guttman Community College, about their book, Gentrification Down the Shore , published by Rutgers University Press.

In this episode, two punk scholars - Raymond Patton and David Pearson - discuss how punk operates and frames itself in different contexts and time periods, including issues of diversity and multiculturalism and the experiences and participation of immigrants, women, people of color, and the continuum or rejection of politics and commercialism. The occasion is the recent publication of David's book...

Cathy Davidson, Dree-el Simmons and Tatiana Ades share their experiences in creating We Eat: A Student-Centered Cookbook as part of the  " Introduction to Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences " class in Spring 2020 offered by The Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center .

The editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice talk with contributor Estha Weiner about her poetry. The biannual literary journal, edited by English department faculty Jeffrey Heiman and Adam Berlin, is produced at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Visit indoorvoicespocast.com.

John Jay College English dept. colleagues Allison Pease and Victoria Bond discuss Bond's finale to the  award-winning trilogy, Zora and Me : The Summoner , a fictional series based on the life and work of anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston.