References and suggested readings: Brad Bolman. 2025. Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles. University of Chicago Press. Benjamin Alberto Schultz-Figueroa. 2023. The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research Into Animal Life. University of California Press. Gustave Flaubert. Madam Boverie.Bluesky @bolman.bsky.social Instagram @labdogbookEmail Brad at bbolman@tulane.edu Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/america...

A lesson on dark money influence in campus culture wars References and suggested readings: Isaac Kamola. Spring 2025. Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular. Academe Magazine. Isaac Kamola. 2019. Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary. Duke University Press.Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. 2021. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War. Pluto Press. Roderick A. Ferguson. 2017. We Demand: The University and...

From a student of Saul Bellow and Barack Obama. References and suggested readings: John K Wilson. August 2025. “100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom.” Chronicle of Higher Education.John K. Wilson. 1995. The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Duke University Press.Fara Dabhoiwala. 2025. What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea. Belknap Press.John K. Wilson’s columns in Inside Higher EdJohn K. Wilson on TwitterSu...

On the rightwing origins of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. References and suggested readings: Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold Type Books. Mary Anne Franks. 2019. The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech. Stanford University Press.University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven ReportLauren Lassabe Shepherd. March 19, 2025. Who's Side are College Administrators On? HNN.AAUP’s 2025 Statement on...

ft. Geronimo, both Roosevelt presidents, Franz Boas, and the phrenologists References and suggested readings: Rachel Morgan. 2024. Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology. University of Chicago Press. John Fowler. 2021. A Forest in the Clouds. Pegasus Books.Follow Rachel Morgan on Instagram at @adventures_in_archaeologySupport the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the ...

On hedge funds, private equity, and the financialization of public colleges. References and suggested readings: The Coalition Against Campus Debt. 2024. Lend and Rule: Fighting the Financialization of Public Universities. Common Notions Press. Sofya Aptekar’s faculty pagesofyaaptekar.com Robin D. G. Kelley. 2022. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniversary edition). Beacon Press.Robin D. G. Kelley. Fall 2022. Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams. Boston Review.Support ...

How public universities gave rise to public media References and suggested readings: Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.Laura Garbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.Katherine Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina.Josh Shepperd’s BlueSky and faculty pageSupport the show Browse the Amer...

Does your campus use B&N Education or Follett? References and suggested readings: Katya Schwenk. September 10, 2025. “How Wall Street Broke the College Bookstore.” LeverNews.com.Vincent Bevins. 2020. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. PublicAffairs.levernews.com Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/am...

On blood money and “the moral costs of an elite education.” References and suggested readings: David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press. Ethan Schrum. 2019. The Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II. Cornell University Press.Julie A. Reuben. 1996. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Moralit...

Can US colleges be decolonized? References and suggested readings: Sandy Grande. 2018. “Refusing the University.” Free PDF.Sandy Grande. 2016. Red Pedagogy. Free PDF.ACP episodes on Indigeneity and the university with Sharon Stein and Eve L. EwingRobin D. G. Kelley. March 1, 2016. “Black Study, Black Struggle.” The Boston Review. “Board of Trustees agreement shows hope for UConn-Indigenous relations,” The Daily Campus, February 3, 2025.Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshel...

Brought to us, in part, by the race scientists References mentioned this episode: Henry Reichman. 2025. Understanding Academic Freedom, 2nd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press. J. McKeen Cattell. 1913. University Control.Joy Ann Williamson-Lott. 2018. Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order. Teachers College Press.Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. 2025. Whose Side are Administrators On? HNN.Russell Banks. 2007. Continental Drift. Ecco.AAUP’s Academe ...

And how to approach an acquisitions editor References: Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curtain. Kent State University Press.Madeleine L'Engle. 1980. A Swiftly Tilting Planet.J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobit.Robert M. Veatch and Lainie F. Ross. 2016. Defining Death: The Case for Choice. Georgetown University Press.Kent State UP on Instagram, Facebook, and BlueskySupport the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/l...

Tuskegee, Alabama, the center of modernity in the Black Global South References and suggested readings: Jarvis McInnis. 2025. Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South. Columbia. Columbia University Press. Zora Neale Hurston. Mules and Men.Zora Neale Herston. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.Jesmyn Ward. 2024. Let Us Descend.Brea Baker. 2024. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownersh...

From college radical to rightwing organizer, the 3-D life and education of The Man Who Invented Conservatism. References and suggested readings: Daniel J. Flynn. 2025. The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. Encounter Books. P. G. Wodehouse booksAmerican Spectator, spectator.org Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast ...

References mentioned this episode: Eve Darian-Smith. 2025. Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters. Johns Hopkins University Press. OPEN ACCESS PDFFind out more about the Scholars at Risk networkSupport the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell...

Are you on the Professor Watchlist? References mentioned this episode: Matthew Boedy. 2025. The Seven Mountains Mandate: Inside the Sweeping Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy. WJK Books.Janisse Ray. 2022. The Woods of Fannin County.Matthew Boedy on YouTubeMatthew Boedy on TwitterAAUP guide: how to respond to Turning Point USA on your campusSupport the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show a...

A DEI victory Mississippi! Plus, JT Thomas explains what's wrong with Diversity, Inc. References and suggested readings: James M. Thomas. 2020. Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities. Rutgers University Press. James M. Thomas. 2023. The Souls of Jewish Folks: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line. University of Georgia Press.James M. Thomas. August 14, 2025. “‘It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner’ − and their views on ...

From tolerance to land acknowledgements. References mentioned this episode: Nimisha Barton. 2024. A Just Future: Getting from Diversity and Inclusion to Equity and Justice in Higher Education. Cornell University Press.Nimisha Barton’s websiteJames M. Thomas. 2020. Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities. Rutgers University Press.Will Kymlica. 2007. Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity. Oxford University Press...

The Chicago boys would have loved digital assets. References and suggested readings: Alan Blinder and Steven Rich. August 25, 2025. The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think. New York Times. (Strongly recommend reading the comments)Teddy Gania. March 19, 2025. UChicago Lost Money On Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut. The Stanford Review.Richard J. Evans. 2005. The Coming of the Third Reich. Penguin Books.Marshall Steinbaum’s website, Twitter, and BlueskySup...

College, a nice time for nice ladies. References mentioned this episode: Samuel Rutherford. 2025. Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939. Oxford University Press. Sam’s website with a trans history reading list and a student handout for how to read in graduate level coursesEmily Cousens. 2025. Virginia Prince, Robert Stoller and the Trans Feminist Intellectual History of the Sex/Gender Distinction. History Workshop Journal.After Weimar; Beyond ...