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Kristen Brown (with faculty interviews from Ken Blanchard)
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A podcast highlighting the research of students, staff, and faculty at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. If this content resonates with you, please follow!

  1. 6D AGO

    Native Voices of Resilience: Bringing the Past Forward

    Consisting of student research stories, this compilation emerged from Northern State University's ENGL 213 course, Indigenous Literatures: Bringing the Past Forward.  Student contributors include Prancine Mendoza, Clara Cueller, Emily Kuntz, Logan Hinman, Laney Widener, and Josey Kelly.  Access Prancine Mendoza's annotated Indigenous cookbook here Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com (Pixabay) Contact Kristen Brown at kristen.brown@northern.edu The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    27 min
  2. Many Voices, One Planet (Earth Day Compilation 2025)

    04/21/2025

    Many Voices, One Planet (Earth Day Compilation 2025)

    Welcome to the Third Annual Earth Day Compilation titled Many Voices, One Planet. This episode showcases semester-long student research from Dr. Kristen Brown's ENGL 201 Environmental Stewardship and Social Advocacy course.  Join us in celebrating both academic excellence and environmental stewardship as we hear from the next generation of sustainability leaders on this Earth Day. “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver read with the permission of The Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency as agent for the author. Copyright 1986, 2003, 2006, 2017 by Mary Oliver with permission of Bill Reichblum The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    42 min
  3. The Power of the Funny

    04/02/2025

    The Power of the Funny

    In this episode I talk with Assistant Professor of Sociology Pamela G. Monaghan-Geernaert and Associate Professor of Communications Liz Sills about Native American political humor.  Professors Monaghan-Geernaert and Sills have an article published in the volume Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody, (ed. Ofer Feldman, Springer 2024).  The title of their article is "The Power of Funny: Indigenous High Art as Quiescence and Rebellion".  Here is an excerpt from the article. "In 2006 Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star released a print entitled The Last Thanks. Reminiscent of da Vinci’s The Last Supper, the piece features Red Star (in a traditional elk tooth dress) seated amid plastic skeletons wearing stereotypical Native headdresses at a table littered with unhealthy, prepackaged food...  The Last Thanks uses funny imagery to address this history with a message of looking toward the future with resilience while realistically confronting the horrors of the past.  The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    52 min

  4. 03/20/2025

    The Cop on the Corner

    In this episode I interview newly minted PhD Lucas Wiscons and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at NSU.  In this episode find out what real encounters between the police and civilians are like.  I also learn that there are such things as "ethnomethodology (the sociology of everyday life/commonsense knowledge) and conversation analysis (talk in interaction as the locus of social organization)".  If you are interested in how the police and the people they encounter view the interaction later, this is the show for you.   The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    53 min

  5. 03/07/2025

    All the President's Wins

    Intrepid professor of government Jon Schaff and I discuss President Trump's amazing week.  Topics include DOGE, whether the Chief Executive will regain control over the executive branch, the state of the southern border, and the President's recent (not) State of the Union speech.   The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    57 min

  6. 02/13/2025

    Ukraine! Gaza! And Tariffs! Oh my!

    In this episode, Professor Jon Schaff, Steven Usitalo, and myself discuss politics beyond our national borders.  President Trump is attempting to end wars in Southern Europe and the Middle East.  Will he be successful and if so, what will the peace look like?  Will aggression have turned a profit for Putin and Hamas?  How serious and how effective will President Trump's tariff strategy be?  And finally, some movie suggestions from out intrepid trio.   This is the audio version of Spotlight@northern.  The video version airs on NSUtv, on both Midco and NVC.  You can also view it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@northernstateuniversitytel9984. The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    1h 8m

  7. 11/15/2024

    Election Postmortem 2024

    The gang of three (Professors Schaff, Usitalo, and myself) reconvene to discuss the accuracy of our predictions.  Hint: I got it right!  We consider how big a victory it was for Donald Trump, what the polls got right and wrong, and the what the campaigns did right and wrong.   The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    1h 11m

  8. 11/15/2024

    For the love of math

    My guest today is Associate Professor of Math Ricardo Rojas.  We discuss our mutual love of mathematics and the role of new technologies in teaching math at the college level.   The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.

    54 min
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A podcast highlighting the research of students, staff, and faculty at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. If this content resonates with you, please follow!

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    Kristen Brown (with faculty interviews from Ken Blanchard)
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