American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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a social and political history of higher education

  1. 2d ago

    Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK? with Amit Singh

    References and suggested readings: Amit Singh. 2026. Cancelled Futures: Class, Race, and Place in Post-Industrial Britain. Princeton University Press. Paul Willis. Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs.Arlie Russell Hochschild. 2018. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New Press.Lauren A. Rivera. 2016. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton University Press.Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh. 2026. Pubs for the People: The Fight for the Pint and the Nation. Manchester University Press.Loïc Wacquant. 2026. Rethinking the Penal State. Polity Press.Amit Singh’s faculty page and Bluesky and LinkedInText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  2. 5d ago

    Lords of Serendipity, a campus novel with Randy Boyagoda

    References and suggested readings: Randy Boyagoda. 2026. Lords of Serendipity. Mariner Books.George Elliot. 1871. Middlemarch.Ralph Ellison. 1952. Invisible Man.Kiran Desai. 2025. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Hogarth.www.randyboyagoda.com Randy Boyagoda’s faculty pageText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    Lords of Serendipity, a campus novel with Randy Boyagoda

  3. Sep 9

    University in stone, silk, and blood with William Whyte

    On the material history of the university References and suggested readings: William Whyte. 2026. The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood. Harvard University Press. William Whyte’s faculty page, Twitter, and LinkedInText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  4. Sep 6

    Tuition, Gaza encampments, and tenure with Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh

    References and suggested readings: Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh. 2026. How America’s Public Universities Stopped Being Public. Hedgehog Review.Robert A. Nesbit. 1996. The Degradation of the Academic Dogma. Routledge.Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta. December 2024. College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification. National Bureau of Economic Research.Maya Rosen. October 11, 2026. Degrees of Separation. Jewish Currents. Anna Perez. 2023. Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives. Fortress Press.F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night.Theodore Dreiser. Jennie Gerhardt.Molly Crabapple. 2026. Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. One World.Mark Weitzman, Robert J Williams, James Wald, eds. 2025. The Routledge History of Antisemitism. Routledge.Marshall Steinbaum on Twitter @econ_Marshall and his website, marshallsteinbaum.orgDavid Austin Walsh’s email daw6a@virginia.eduText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    Tuition, Gaza encampments, and tenure with Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh

  5. Sep 2

    Big budgets behind big college sports with Karen Weaver

    References and suggested readings: Karen Weaver. 2026. Understanding College Athletics: What Campus Leaders Need to Know About College Sports. Johns Hopkins University Press. Karen Weaver. 2025. Sport Finance: Where the Money Comes From and Where the Money Goes, 2nd ed. Kendall Hunt.W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. 2026. The Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business Review Press.Trustees and Presidents Managing Intercollegiate Athletics podcast on YouTubeKaren Weaver’s website, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedInText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  6. Aug 30

    The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin

    A deep-dive into the personal lives of the famed 20th century French theorists (all men) with their newest biographer. References and suggested readings: Emily Eakin. 2026. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory. Penguin Press.Sarah Bakewell booksRoss Douthat. November 2, 2022. How the Right Became the Left and the Left Became the Right. New York Times.James Miller. 2010. The Passion of Michel Foucault. Harvard University Press.John Guillory and Merve Emre. 2023. Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. University of Chicago Press.Meghan O’Gieblyn. 2026. Will and Attention: A Memoir. Doubleday.Emily Eakin’s website, essays at NYT, InstagramText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin

  7. Aug 26

    A short history of the connoisseur with Peter Burke

    References and suggested readings: Peter Burke. 2026. The Connoisseur: A Cultural History. Reaktion Books. Gore Vidal. 2000. Burr: A Novel. Vintage Books.Peter Burke’s websiteText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    A short history of the connoisseur with Peter Burke

  8. Aug 23

    How a media panic led to the modern research university with Chad Wellmon

    On the origins of the German research university and what universities should be today. References and suggested readings: Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. Johns Hopkins University Press. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press.The Other University episode with Chad Wellmon.Ann M. Blair. 2011. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Yale University Press.Frank Landymore. February 23, 2026. New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You. Futurism.Daniel Mendelsohn, trans. 2026. The Odyssey. University of Chicago Press.Jonathan Lear. 2008. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Harvard University Press.Dennis Duncan. 2023. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. W. W. Norton.What Was the Internet? Boston Review. August 2026.Follow Chad on Twitter @cwellmonChadwellmon.comText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

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a social and political history of higher education

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  • Creator
    Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    162
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 American Campus Podcast
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