The Modern Scholar Podcast

The Modern Scholar Podcast

Welcome to the Modern Scholar podcast! All around the world there are individuals doing great things - asking great questions, conducting meaningful research, innovating, and building better communities. This series brings together all of these things, interviewing librarians, scholars, and community leaders who are not only performing cutting edge work, but share the same passion for educating, encouraging, and empowering those around them. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope you’ll subscribe as we build a community of modern scholars, just like you. Are you ready? Let’s do this!

  1. 03/04/2025

    Exploring the Future of Libraries with Chris DeCristofaro

    Join me for another inspiring conversation with Chris DeCristofaro, co-host of The Library Pros Podcast and now Assistant Director at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library in Dix Hill, New York! We talk about technology, experimentation, community engagement, and more!

    1h 12m

  2. 02/18/2025

    ENCORE: Becoming Veterans with Sarah Parry Myers

    Enjoy this encore presentation of Becoming Veterans with Dr. Sarah Parry Myers! Dr. Sarah Parry Myers⁠ is an Associate Professor of History at Messiah University in central Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on 20th century United States history, gender, public history, and military history. She is the recent recipient of a Dialogues on the Experience of War grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, focused on generating dialogue with female veterans. Sarah’s work has appeared in edited collections released by Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge, and her book ⁠Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and Their Fight for Veteran Recognition⁠, recently released from the University of North Carolina Press, explores the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots—and this book is the subject of our conversation today!

    37 min

  3. 02/04/2025

    Leading Communities through Libraries with Kieran Hixson

    Kieran Hixon has over 16 years of experience offering professional development, both in-person and online, for rural libraries throughout the United States. Kieran serves nationally on committees as a rural library expert and has broad experience working in rural public libraries, and serves as Senior Rural and Small Library Consultant for the Colorado State Library. Kieran is passionate about rural libraries and is known for his high energy, humorous stories, and insightful examples when providing instruction. Former Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) President, long-standing ARSL Board Member, and Rural Library Expert, Kieran is Co-lead of the Outstanding in Their Field Leadership Institute. Take a listen to my earlier conversation with Kieran and Dr. Sharon Morris from Season One!

    1h 2m

  4. 01/21/2025

    Discovering Libraries with Simone Kirk

    Growing up to be a certified bookseller in Germany, and acquiring a European Master’s Degree in Literature and Publishing/Marketing, Simone Kirk never gave libraries much thought, since reading books, and having to give them back, seemed pretty cruel to this passionate reader. Her goal to work in the publishing industry in Germany was redirected with a move to Star City, Arkansas in 2004. After arriving in this very rural area of the States, she became the Branch Manager at the Star City Branch Library, which changed everything! Simone fell in love with libraries, and decided to put her knowledge of book selling, marketing, and customer service training to work. Simone is constantly trying to invent new ways to serve her community, developing programs, and spread her love for literacy in Southeast Arkansas. She has been a member of Arkansas Library Paraprofessionals (ALPS) since 2009, is still active as an ALPS Representative, and served as ALPS Chair in 2018.

    1 hr

  5. 01/07/2025

    An Expanding Universe of Opportunity with Philip Shackelford

    Welcome to Season 7 of the show, and Happy New Year! If you are just joining the show, welcome! I'm glad you are here. Plans for this season include conversations with some of my favorite people in the library profession - exciting! Today's discussion focuses on how libraries are an expanding universe of opportunity. The studies referenced in today's episode: Making Cities Stronger Economic Vitality The Importance of Place Libraries and Workforce Check out my conversations with David Johnson and Shelby Fleming from the Fayetteville Public Library!

    8 min

  6. 11/26/2024

    Sustaining the Carrier War with Stan Fisher

    Dr. Stan Fisher is a captain in the U.S. Navy and an assistant professor of naval and American history at the United States Naval Academy.  Before transitioning to classroom, he accumulated over 2,500 flight hours as a Navy pilot, mainly in SH-60B & MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. He earned a commission through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1997 and has multiple deployments on frigates, cruisers, and aircraft carriers. Fisher has also served as a weapons and tactics instructor, squadron maintenance officer, and operational test director. Additionally, he has completed tours of duty in engineering and acquisitions at the Naval Air Systems Command.  He is a past recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Naval History Scholarship and earned his PhD from the University of Maryland.  Today we talk about all of those things, as well as his recent book, Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific, published in 2023 by Naval Institute Press.

    56 min

  7. 11/12/2024

    Communicating Leadership with Crystal Gates

    Crystal Gates is the Executive Director of the North Little Rock Public Library in Arkansas. She has a proven track record of enhancing library services, having previously led the Jackson Parish Library in Louisiana to national recognition as a 3 Star Library in 2014 and 2015. Gates holds key positions in numerous professional organizations, including serving as President of the Southeastern Library Association, Arkansas’ ALA Chapter Councilor, Treasurer of Advocates for All Arkansas Libraries, in addition to serving on ALA’s Committee on Diversity and the Chapter Relations Committee.

    1h 32m

  8. 10/29/2024

    Understanding Eisenhower and the Holocaust with Jason Lantzer

    Dr. Jason Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. An historian by training, his research and writing interests generally center on religion, politics, and law, with some work about Disney thrown in for good measure. He is the author of eight books, including Dwight Eisenhower & the Holocaust (DeGruyter, 2023), Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America’s Majority Faith (NYU 2012), Dis-History: Uses of the Past at Walt Disney’s Worlds (TPP, 2017), and Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2017), numerous book chapters and articles. He is a three-time graduate of Indiana University (BA, MA, PhD).

    1h 14m
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Welcome to the Modern Scholar podcast! All around the world there are individuals doing great things - asking great questions, conducting meaningful research, innovating, and building better communities. This series brings together all of these things, interviewing librarians, scholars, and community leaders who are not only performing cutting edge work, but share the same passion for educating, encouraging, and empowering those around them. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope you’ll subscribe as we build a community of modern scholars, just like you. Are you ready? Let’s do this!

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  • Creator
    The Modern Scholar Podcast
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    116
  • Rating
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