American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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a social and political history of higher education

  1. Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres

    1d ago

    Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres

    References and suggested readings: Alexander D. Hyres. 2026. Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School. University of Georgia Press. Alex Hyres’s faculty pageHeather Andrea Williams. 2007. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. University of North Carolina Press.James D. Anderson. 1988. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. University of North Carolina Press. Jarvis R. Givens. 2023. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Harvard University Press.Vanessa Siddle Walker. 1996. Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South. University of North Carolina Press.School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife episode with Kate Eichhorn Scott Anderson. 2025. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation. Doubleday.Instagram @hyres376 Bluesky @hyres376.bsky.social, linktree Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    26 min

  2. 4d ago

    The Other University with Chad Wellmon

    On the student life apparatus. References and suggested readings: 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.Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.Bavarian L. Baldwin. 2021. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books.David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press.Matteo Pasquinelli. 2023. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. Verso.Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception.Sean Keilen. 2026. Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts. Princeton University Press.Chadwellmon.comText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    41 min

  3. Jun 24

    Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn

    On age, class, and jobs. References and suggested readings: Samuel Moyn. 2026. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Samuel Moyn. April 23, 2026. Professors Are Too Old: The Academy’s Gerontocracy Problem is Worse than Anyone Admits. The Chronicle of Higher Education.Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. 2023. The Stronghold. NYRB Classics.Nazmul Sultan. 2024. Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. Harvard University Press.Samuel Moyn’s faculty pageFollow Sam on X, The Everything App, @samuelmoynText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    29 min

  4. Jun 21

    Spirits, specters, and parapsychology professors with Jesse Bering

    Speaking to the dead, academically. References and suggested readings: Jesse Bering. 2026. The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul. University of Chicago Press.Jesse Bering’s websiteBering in Mind SubstackText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    28 min

  5. Jun 17

    The right’s attempt to capture Western Civ and Jewish Studies with Emmaia Gelman

    A nice companion episode to last week's on The West with Curtis Dozier. References and suggested readings: Emmaia Gelman. 2026. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State. University of California Press. Alice Speri. April 24, 2026. US universities are seeing an influx of ‘antisemitism centers’. Some Jewish scholars are worried. The Guardian.Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. May 7, 2025. Old Project, New Vehicle: Conservative Civics and Leadership Institutes in Historical Context. Frontiers of American Reaction.Sabri Jiryis. 2025. Foundations of Zionism, translated by Fida Jiryis. Ebb Books.Rana Barakat. 2026. Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine. University of North Carolina Press.Emmaia Gelman’s websiteInstitute for the Critical Study of Zionism websitePeer-Reviewed Journal: JCSZInstagram: @institutecszPodcast: Unpacking ZionismFollow Emmaia Gelman on Instagram and BlueskyText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    39 min

  6. Jun 14

    The West with Curtis Dozier

    Athens, Jerusalem, and sometimes Rome. References and suggested readings: Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate. Yale University Press. Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis DozierAnders Stephanson. 2025. American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Measures. Verso.Naoíse Mac Sweeney. 2023. The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives. Dutton.Stephen Graham Jones. 2021. The Only Good Indians. S&S/Saga Press.Dozier’s website, Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, Pharos on FacebookCurtis Dozier on BlueSkyText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    32 min
  7. What are universities for? with Marc Spooner

    Jun 10

    What are universities for? with Marc Spooner

    A small question! References and suggested readings: Marc Spooner and James McNinch, eds. 2026. Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities. University of Regina Press. Marc Spooner and James McNich, eds. 2018. Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education. University of Regina Press.Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities.AAUP’s 1915 Declaration and 1940 StatementMichael Atzmon, John Cheney-Lippold, Gary D. Krenz, and Melanie S. Tanielian, eds. 2026. In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis. Disobedience Press.Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. The Opinionated University episode with Brian Soucek Creating the AAUP episode with Hank Reichman Marc Spooner’s faculty pageText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    35 min
  8. Quentin Deranque, the French Charlie Kirk with Jonathan Hauser

    Jun 7

    Quentin Deranque, the French Charlie Kirk with Jonathan Hauser

    References and suggested readings: The Wild RobotHoppersJonathan Hauser’s website and LinkedInText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    35 min
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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
    142
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 American Campus Podcast
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