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Outsider / Insider

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Outsider/Insider is an MIT Sloan podcast. It was developed to provide tools for members of the MIT community—as well as other communities that resemble MIT in that they are workplaces or schools and they aspire for their diversity to be a source of strength. Another goal is what the co-hosts—the MIT sociologists and management professors Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan-- like to call “delight in discovery.” Ray and Ezra are quite open and frank about the difficulties that MIT and other universities have faced in realizing this aspiration, with a particular focus on the challenges that eme...

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Episode 8: The Importance of Robust Disagreement and the Value in Equality 28.01.2025 1:37:49

We’re excited to share the eighth and final episode of season 1 of the Outsider/Insider podcast , co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management, Kate O’Sullivan executive producer. This episode features a conversation with Prof. Tarek Masoud, the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School o...

Episode 7: Advocating for Outsiders Without Crowding Them Out 21.11.2024 30:15

We’re excited to share the seventh episode of the Outsider/Insider podcast , co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management, Kate O’Sullivan executive producer. This is the second of a two-part episode, which features a conversation with Prof. Lily Tsai, the Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT , the Director and Founder of the MIT Governance...

Episode 6: "Perpetual outsider"? Or Wearer of Multiple Insider Lenses! 21.11.2024 31:30

We’re excited to share the sixth episode of the Outsider/Insider podcast , co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management, Kate O’Sullivan executive producer. This is the first of a two-part episode, which features a conversation with Prof. Lily Tsai, the Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT , the Director and Founder of the MIT Governance La...

Episode 5: Identifying with Each Side & with a Community that Transcends Sides 11.10.2024 44:18

The second part of Ray & Ezra’s conversation with Lerna Ekmekcioglu focuses on the unique insights Lerna offers, as a scholar of Ottoman and post-Ottoman societies and as a Turkish Armenian, on the campus crisis that occurred in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. Remarkably, Lerna is able to identify strongly with each side of this...

Episode 4: Outsider/Insider Embodied 11.10.2024 31:31

The first part of Ray & Ezra’s conversation with Lerna Ekmekcioglu offers historical and personal context for the identities that she encompasses as an Armenian Christian and Turkish national, and as an émigré to the United States. This discussion adds depth and nuance to the ideas developed in episode 1 and episode 2 : The invisible logic of collective bonding The value of outsider-insider re...

Episode 3: The Promise and Challenge of Universities as Inclusive Communities 10.09.2024 47:25

Episode 3 is the third of three in which Ray and Ezra sketch a framework for how universities can realize their great promise for creating deep, meaningful and impactful connections between diverse people and avoid situations where community members feel devalued or threatened due to how their social identities are impacted by situations that arise within the community or by events in the world. F...

Episode 2: The Invisible Logic of Black Family Reunions 10.09.2024 38:48

We’re excited to share the second episode of the Outsider/Insider podcast , co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management. Episode 2 of the Outsider/Insider podcast is the second of three in which Ray and Ezra sketch a framework for how universities can realize their great promise for creating deep, meaningful and impactful connections between div...

Episode 1: The Invisible Logic of Jewish Peoplehood 10.09.2024 42:34

We are very excited to share the pilot episode of the Outsider/Insider podcast , co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management. Kate O’Sullivan is the executive producer. You can find the show notes and opportunities to provide input) on the Outsider/Insider Substack site for this episode . This episode was produced in the spring of 2004 by Nora C...