American Campus Podcast

By Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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Episodes: 134

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a social and political history of higher education


Episode Date
Alpha Kappa Alpha with Deborah E. Whaley
Jun 03, 2026
How class is reproduced in elite private schools with Emma Taylor
May 31, 2026
Yuppies with Dylan Gottlieb
May 27, 2026
Teaching ‘80s and ‘90s pop culture to Gen Z with Austin McCoy
May 24, 2026
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy with AJA Woods
May 20, 2026
Institutional Review Boards with Marco Antonio Ramos
May 17, 2026
Writing for the public with David M. Perry
May 13, 2026
Professional class liberals with Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer
May 10, 2026
The grade inflation panic with Kevin Gannon
May 06, 2026
Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind with Mark Hlavacik
May 03, 2026
Hands Off Higher Ed: May Day 2026 with Anne Balay
Apr 29, 2026
Culture wars come for French universities (Part 2)
Apr 26, 2026
Culture wars come for French universities (Part 1)
Apr 22, 2026
Higher ed in the 21st century economy with What Works Podcast
Apr 19, 2026
Young Americans for Freedom with Daniel Ruggles
Apr 15, 2026
Blame the Intern with Alexandre Frenette
Apr 12, 2026
Made up college rankings with Jonathan Beecher Field
Apr 08, 2026
Sex testing and the path to transvestigating college athletes with Johanna Mellis
Apr 05, 2026
The history of college learning disability accommodations with Scott Gelber
Mar 31, 2026
India's pipeline to Silicon Valley with Dwaipayan Banerjee
Mar 29, 2026
Publishing your academic book after leaving academia with Danielle Casarez Lemi
Mar 25, 2026
Pioneer Fund, the dark money trust that won't let race science die with John P. Jackson Jr.
Mar 22, 2026
China and the decline of American universities with Mark S. Ferrara
Mar 18, 2026
Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis Dozier
Mar 15, 2026
Jesse Jackson and “Western Culture” at Stanford with John K. Wilson
Mar 11, 2026
L. Brent Bozell, trad Cath intellectual with Joshua Tait
Mar 08, 2026
Why is there an American university in Beirut? with Betty S. Anderson
Mar 04, 2026
Academics in the Epstein files with Andy Hines
Mar 01, 2026
Do we still have race conscious admissions after SFA v. Harvard? with Julie J. Park
Feb 25, 2026
Progressive origins of eugenics with Mark Torres
Feb 22, 2026
TurningPointUSA after Charlie Kirk with Hope Pisoni
Feb 18, 2026
On reconstructing Cherokee education with Julie L. Reed
Feb 15, 2026
Black college women after emancipation with Linda Perkins
Feb 11, 2026
Your Data Will Be Used Against You with Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Feb 08, 2026
Lynne Cheney and the National Endowment for the Humanities with Mark Hlavacik
Feb 04, 2026
Universities and the climate crisis with Bryan Alexander
Jan 28, 2026
"Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts," Aydelotte Foundation roundtable ft. Lauren, Nayanika Ghosh, and Andy Hines
Jan 25, 2026
On the myth of institutional neutrality with Brian Soucek
Jan 21, 2026
You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner with Thomas Fallace
Jan 18, 2026
Media, academia, and objectivity with Ayala Panievsky
Jan 14, 2026
Antiwar activism and police infiltration at the University of Texas, 1967-1973 with Martin Murray
Jan 11, 2026
US Military Academy at West Point with John F. Morris
Jan 07, 2026
The peak and decline of US higher ed with Bryan Alexander
Jan 04, 2026
End of 2025 Questionnaire and Upcoming AMA
Dec 31, 2025
Claremonsters and MAGA intellectuals with Laura K. Field
Dec 28, 2025
Christianity, manhood, and college football with Hunter M. Hampton
Dec 24, 2025
The best representatives of youth dissent? High school activists! with Aaron Fountain
Dec 21, 2025
Liberal anticommunists and the prelude to McCarthyism with Andrew Feffer
Dec 17, 2025
School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife with Kate Eichhorn
Dec 14, 2025
Conservatives and Classical education with Catherine Tebaldi
Dec 10, 2025
Inventing political science with Emily Hauptmann
Dec 07, 2025
STRAIGHT at Penn State and anti-gay backlash in the 1990s with Richard S. Price
Dec 04, 2025
Palm readings, magic, and modern medicine with Alison Bashford
Nov 30, 2025
Higher ed’s rush to adopt AI with Justin Raden
Nov 26, 2025
Campus sexual harassment from Nixon to #MeToo with Celene Reynolds
Nov 23, 2025
Creating the AAUP with Henry Reichman
Nov 19, 2025
How to get a job at Harvard in 1860 with prabhdeep kehal
Nov 19, 2025
Squids, subs, and the academic-military-industrial complex with Naomi Oreskes
Nov 16, 2025
University Keywords with Andy Hines
Nov 12, 2025
Goldwater, King, and the college with Nicholas R. Buccola
Nov 09, 2025
Gunnar Myrdal and the white world order with Maribel Morey
Nov 05, 2025
Lab Dog with Brad Bolman
Nov 02, 2025
How dark money shapes the vernaculars of the culture war with Isaac Kamola
Oct 29, 2025
Scopes and the creationists with John K. Wilson
Oct 26, 2025
Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) with Mary Anne Franks
Oct 22, 2025
Looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology with Rachel Morgan
Oct 19, 2025
The university’s creditors with Sofya Aptekar
Oct 15, 2025
How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd
Oct 12, 2025
The campus bookstore racket with Katya Schwenk
Oct 08, 2025
The 1980s anti-apartheid movement with David Busch
Oct 05, 2025
Can the university be decolonized? with Sandy Grande
Oct 01, 2025
The future of university presses with Clara Totten
Sep 24, 2025
Tuskegee and the Afterlives of the Plantation with Jarvis McInnis
Sep 21, 2025
Frank Meyer: campus communist to rightwing revolutionary with Daniel Flynn
Sep 17, 2025
Global attacks on academic freedom with Eve Darian-Smith
Sep 14, 2025
TurningPointUSA and the Professor Watchlist with Matthew Boedy
Sep 10, 2025
DEI win in Mississippi (and what you can do in your state) with James M. Thomas
Sep 07, 2025
DEI from the 90s to now with Nimisha Barton
Sep 03, 2025
NYT discovers community colleges, UChicago discovers crypto losses with Marshall Steinbaum
Aug 31, 2025
A gender, queer, and trans history of the British university with Sam Rutherford
Aug 27, 2025
Before ChatGPT, there were MOOCs with Anne Trumbore
Aug 24, 2025
Developmental editing for scholarly writers with Laura Portwood-Stacer
Aug 20, 2025
The neuroscientists who fled Nazi Germany with Frank Stahnisch
Aug 17, 2025
Revenge of Bob Jones U: Religious colleges and their tax exemptions with Adam Laats
Aug 13, 2025
Eugenics and the creation of statistics with Akira O’Connor and Erin Robbins
Aug 10, 2025
The “rise and fall” of prison education with Reiko Hillyer
Aug 06, 2025
Angola prison: a college with Piper Hutchinson
Aug 03, 2025
History of federal student loans with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Jul 30, 2025
Harvard Business School and the creation of the MBA with Erik Baker
Jul 27, 2025
Law and economics and the backlash to critical legal studies with David Austin Walsh
Jul 23, 2025
Charles Walgreen and the University of Chicago with Steven Melendez
Jul 20, 2025
Medieval hazing rituals with Hannah Skoda
Jul 16, 2025
The Frankfurt School comes to the US with Jonathan Fine
Jul 09, 2025
The IQ test with Pepper Stetler
Jul 02, 2025
God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus
Jun 25, 2025
The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
Jun 18, 2025
Richard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian Anderson
Jun 11, 2025
Resistance from the Right (joint episode with Against the Grain)
Jun 08, 2025
The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne
Jun 04, 2025
Why does my campus have an ROTC? with Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner
Jun 01, 2025
What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera
May 28, 2025
UVA vs. Carlisle vs. Hampton with Eve L. Ewing
May 21, 2025
Marx in the classroom from Reagan to 9/11 with Andrew Hartman
May 14, 2025
The Trustees (joint episode with In Bed with the Right podcast)
May 08, 2025
Whither the English degree? Major Trade-offs with Corey Moss-Pech
May 07, 2025
Disability accommodations since Covid-19 with Jennifer Leigh
Apr 30, 2025
Why colleges have dormitories with Carla Yanni
Apr 23, 2025
Higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold
Apr 16, 2025
The medical school building boom with Katherine Carroll
Apr 09, 2025
Casual, a timeless campus fashion with Deirdre Clemente
Apr 02, 2025
Great books and the canon wars with Tim Lacy
Mar 26, 2025
The American Psychological Association and the War on Terror with Roy Eidelson
Mar 19, 2025
University archives and black market ancient artifacts with Roberta Mazza
Mar 12, 2025
“Intellectual diversity” with Brad Vivian
Mar 05, 2025
Ed tech and student surveillance with Lindsay Weinberg
Feb 26, 2025
The "Floating University" and American empire with Tamson Pietsch
Feb 19, 2025
Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU with Robert Mann
Feb 12, 2025
The 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings with Kendall Gerdes
Feb 06, 2025
Students for Fair Admissions (2023) with Mike Collins
Jan 29, 2025
UC Regents v Bakke (1978) with Mike Collins
Jan 23, 2025
The Carter administration's threats to deport Iranian students with Will Teague
Jan 17, 2025
Legally Blonde, Drumline, Van Wilder, and other college movies of the aughts with Myles Ethan Lascity
Jan 08, 2025
The time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master Plan
Dec 18, 2024
The cancel culture panic with Adrian Daub
Dec 11, 2024
Why colleges have trustees with Asheesh Siddique
Dec 05, 2024
Black Women, Ivory Tower with Jasmine L. Harris
Nov 29, 2024
McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker
Nov 21, 2024
Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine with Matthew C. Ehrlich
Nov 14, 2024
College women and the 19th Amendment with Kelly Marino
Nov 08, 2024
A history of college radio with Kate Jewell
Oct 28, 2024
Abolish college football? with Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
Oct 22, 2024
Segregation scholarships with Crystal Sanders
Oct 15, 2024
Colonial foundations of US colleges with Sharon Stein
Oct 05, 2024
The FBI, red squads, and student activists in the 1960s south with Gregg Michel
Oct 05, 2024