Indoor Voices

Frederick Wasser, Professor in the Department of Television, Radio and Emerging Media at Brooklyn college, chronicles the sweeping account of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio. His book serves as a survey of American film history and "at times it becomes a history of the century itself."

Char Adams is a race and identity journalist whose work has appeared in T he New York Times, The New Republic, Teen Vogue, People Magazine , and more. She is also the digital editor of CUNY SUM , the website for research, books, and creative works generated at CUNY. Char is also the co-creator of a new podcast, COVID University New York . Visit our blog at i ndoorvoicespodcast.com for more info ab...

Shonna Trinch  is a sociolinguist and faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College, and Edward Snajdr is a cultural anthropologist and faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College. Their book, What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn (Vanderbilt University Press), is the result of a decade of ethnographic research th...

Margot Mifflin , Professor of English at  Lehman College  and the  Newmark Journalism School  is the author of Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood  which will be released by Counterpoint Press on August 4. In this episode, she talks with Beth Harpaz , editor of  CUNY SUM .

Jean Halley is Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She discusses her memoir-in-progress that includes themes of the Western U.S., race, violence, and memory itself.

Kathleen and Steve catch up on stationery, online learning, and don't even get too into why video conferencing is a pain.

In her newest book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets  (Oxford University Press, 2019),  Elissa Bemporad explores two extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the early 1960s. Elissa is assistant professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center, where she specializes in Russian and Eastern European Jew...

Sharon Zukin, Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, discusses her book, The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy , with Richard Ocejo, Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Bret Maney, assistant professor in the English department at CUNY's Lehman College and Cristina Perez Jimenez, assistant professor in English at Manhattan College, talk about the English translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner's 1951 novel, Manhattan Tropics (Trópico en Manhattan ), published by Arte Público Press.

Christen Madrazo and Alan Winson , both faculty members in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Nora Almeida , a library faculty member at New York City College of Technology, talk about how they use podcasting in their work with students at CUNY.

Adam Berlin and Jeffrey Heiman are faculty members in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and are the editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice . The biannual literary journal, which features fiction, poetry, and personal narrative about contemporary justice issues, has been published biannually since 2008. The 24th issue will be available later this month. Visit indo...

Julia Miele Rodas is Professor in the English Department at Bronx Community College and the author of Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe .  In this episode, she has a conversation with fellow disability studies scholar, Olivia Moy, Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College .

Mark Carpentieri teaches public speaking at Queensborough Community College and is the owner of M.C. Records , a blues/roots music label based on the South Shore of Long Island. Mark is also a graduate of Queens College. In this interview, Mark shows the connection between public speaking and running a label, talks about the need for online teaching and learning, and explains what makes a good blu...

In this episode, you'll hear David Pearson, adjunct faculty in the music and general studies departments at CUNY Lehman College, in conversation with Ray Patton, Associate Professor of History and Faculty Director of the Honors Program and Macaulay Honors College at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice. They discuss Ray's book, Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution (Oxford U. Press 201...

Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM , talks with Matthew K. Gold, associate professor of English and director of the   M.A. program in digital humanities  at the CUNY Graduate Center and co-editor of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019.  

Heidi Diehl , an adjunct lecturer and assistant director of the freshman composition program at Brooklyn College, discusses her new novel, Lifelines .

Dr. Jill Grose-Fifer is an associate professor in the psychology department at John Jay College. She thinks deeply about her teaching and works hard to keep it interesting, effective and relevant. She is thus far the only two time winner of John Jay's Distinguished Teaching Prize . Earlier this year, she co-authored a book with Patricia J. Brooks and Maureen O'Connor called Teaching Psychology: An...

David Puglia explains the story and implications of "hon" in his book Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore Hon: The Folk in the City (Lexington Books 2018). David is a folklorist, an assistant professor in the English Dept of Bronx Community College and a native Bawlmorean.

Jean Halley is a professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island and she teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Masters Degree Program. She studies and writes about gender, sexuality, race and cultural normativity and many subsets therein. Her most recent book, and the one we really focus on in this episode, is Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses , will be out in July and is publi...

Nicole Bode teaches at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism and is the head of Newsroom Sustainability for Civil. Civil is a fascinating project designed to help journalism, which, you may have heard, is going through a bit of a rough patch. Civil does interesting things, like using the blockchain to archive content. What that means for librarians is that content won't disappear. News content ca...

Quadira Coles, Vanessa Gutiérrez, Wilmarie Feliz and Akanksha Anand are graduate students at John Jay College and are recipients of the  Tow Policy Advocacy Fellowship and the Pinkerton Community Graduate Fellowship , student development initiatives coordinated by the Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI). 

Michael Rain is a 2017 alumnus of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He's the co-founder of ZNews Africa and founder of the Enodi project, a digital gallery that highlights the stories of first-generation black immigrants of African, Caribbean and Latin descent. This episode was recorded at the Made In NY Media Center, a coll...

Andrea Balis, a faculty member in history at  John Jay College of Criminal Justice , and  Elizabeth Levy , a children's book author, have marshaled their experience working in theater, politics, writing and historical research to produce a book for middle-grade students about the Watergate scandal. Their book is  Bringing Down a President: The Watergate Scandal   and will be published by Macmillan...

Nancy K. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. She talks about her latest book,  My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism   (Columbia University Press), with Jason Tougaw, professor of English at Queens College.

Ria Banerjee (Guttman Community College), Megan Behrent (NYC College of Tech), Allison Better (Kingsborough Community College), Sarah Hoiland (Hostos Community College), and Maria Julia Rossi (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) discuss their participation with the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program and the continuation of their active writing group that came about as a result.