Notes from Nash

Dr. Custer Lee Ann is a newly arriving art & architecture history professor here at Vanderbilt University. Her undergraduate education was completed at Harvard and her Ph. D was completed at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing her undergrad degree, Dr. Custer moved to New York City to work at the Guggenheim Museum. Dr. Custer’s academic and research interests lie in how images med...

Professor Alan Wiseman is the Vanderbilt department chair of political science, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Economy, and is the professor of political science and law (by courtesy). He is the co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking which is a research institution that establishes and tracks legislative effectiveness of politicians in congress. Their most recent report on...

Dr. Michael P. Hodges is an expert in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, american philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of education. Some of Professor Hodges publications include Thinking in the Ruins Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency, "Religion without Transcendence," and "The Status of Ethical Judgment in Philosophical Investigations.” Professor Hodges received his b...

Dr. Jelena Bogdanović is an architect and a historian of art & architecture. Prof. Bogdanović received her bachelor in architecture degree from the University of Belgrade, her masters of art in art history from Vanderbilt University, and her Ph. D and MA in Art and Archeology from Princeton. Her books such as Icons of Space: Advances of Hierotopy and The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and...

When asked what the meaning of life is for Prof. Steve D. Hollon, he says the following: “To cure depression or die trying.”  Professor Hollon is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology. Dr. Hollon’s research primarily deals with utilizing tools like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy instead of antidepressant medications to help cure depression. He is responsible for concluding thr...

Prof. Leddin is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Five-Week Leadership Challenge . For more than three years he has hosted the popular weekly Leadership Lab Podcast (1% of all podcast nationally). He is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University where he teaches Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Management and is the Director of the Practice of Bus...

Professor Brittany Ackerman is a writer from Riverdale, New York. She has received her bachelor of arts degree from Indiana University and her master of fine arts degree from Florida Atlantic University. She is a 2x Pushcart Prize Nominee and her work has been featured in Electric Literature, Jewish Book Council, Lit Hub, largehearted boy, The Los Angeles Review, No Tokens, Hobart, and more. Profe...

NFN is switching things up this week as I talk about Oscar Wilde's essay published in 1891, "The Decay of Lying" with the undergraduate Economics & Russian major, Evan Regan. We discuss Wilde's  bizarre yet intriguing theory of truth being found in art and reality being something that merely imitates the former. We talk about meaningful serendipity, the purpose of life as a form of expres...

Prof. Garnett Slatton is the former CEO of the NBA Washington Wizards, then called the Washington Bullets. At the time, he was the youngest CEO in the NBA. He is credited with doubling the basketball team’s revenues and reviving it from chronic unprofitability and making the Bullets a respectable team in the NBA. As an intern at Duke, Prof. Slatton also invented a banking software that became the...

David A. Owens is the professor of practice of management and innovation and is the Evans Family Executive Director at the Wond’ry Innovation Center. Over the years, Owens has done consulting for NASA, The Smithsonian, LEGO, Nissan LEAF, Cisco, and many other organizations. He has also product-designed for companies such as Apple and Dell Computer. He holds a Ph. D in management science and engine...

Notes from Nash is a long-form conversation show that’s all about exploring ideas, concepts, and understanding one another better by having experts and other brilliant folks join us every Monday. This week’s guest is Social and Religious Studies Instructor at TMI Episcopal in San Antonio, TX, Dr. LePort. He has taught courses on the Hebrew Bible, the Christian New Testament, comparative religion,...

Notes from Nash is a long-form conversation show that’s all about exploring ideas, concepts, and understanding one another better by having experts and other brilliant folks join us every other Monday. This week’s guest was professor of French literature, law, and long-time friend of Noam Chomsky, Prof. Robert Barsky . The following is what we explored: Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics Pedagogy...