Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree

Jeff Crane
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A podcast that explores the liberal arts as an educational system emphasizing inquiry, personal development and innovation that is foundational to a healthy, inclusive, and progressive society. Cal Poly Humboldt College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Dean and environmental historian Jeff Crane, hosts a wide range of guests whose experiences as students of the liberal arts have shaped their lives in school, as professionals, and in their lives outside of their careers. Presented by Cal Poly Humboldt's College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

  1. OCT 31

    Episode 60: Dr. Lynn Pasquerella on Where Higher Education Can Go Next

    Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.  Today's guest is Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. Dr. Pasquerella was appointed president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in 2016 after serving as the eighteenth president of Mount Holyoke College. She has held positions as Provost at the University of Hartford and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Rhode Island, where she taught for more than two decades. A philosopher whose work has combined teaching and scholarship with local and global engagement, Pasquerella has written extensively on medical ethics, metaphysics, public policy, and the philosophy of law. We brought Lynn on the show to discuss her Inside Higher Ed article Our Debate Over Higher Ed Has Lost the Plot . and other ideas she has and writing she has completed on the topic of a liberal arts education. This conversation is ever relevant and Lynn's vision of the possibilities of higher education is inspiring to listen to and share. Please subscribe to the show, rate and review! ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt and is recorded on campus in beautiful Arcata, California.

    1h 1m

  2. SEP 25

    Episode 59: What We Mean by Shared Governance with Lee Bebout

    Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.  Dr. Lee Bebout is back on the show (first featured in episode 13) this month to discuss an article he co-authored with Jeff for Inside Higher Ed entitled What We Mean by ‘Shared Governance’. The essay was published this week. On the show, they discuss the conversations that led to the essay, their own experiences with shared governance and ideas for improvement of dynamics and practices between faculty and administration. Lee is a professor of English at Arizona State University where he is also an affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. His research focuses on the areas of Chicano Studies and Whiteness. His most recent book Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice is forthcoming from NYU Press, set to be released in October. His previous book, "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White" (NYU 2016), examines how representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans have been used to foster whiteness and Americanness, or more accurately whiteness as Americanness. We are happy to have Lee back on the show! Please subscribe to the show, rate and review! ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt and is recorded on campus in beautiful Arcata, California.

    39 min

  3. JUN 3

    Episode 58: Scott Spillman on the Possibility of a Collective Understanding of History

    Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.  Today's guest is Scott Spillman, an American historian and the author of the book Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today (2025). His essays and reviews have appeared in The Point, Liberties, The New Yorker, The New Republic, n+1, the Chronicle Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he has published academic articles in Reviews in American History, History of Education Quarterly, and North Carolina Historical Review. Scott has a PhD in history from Stanford University, and before that he studied history, English, and political philosophy at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. And he serves as the Chair of Leadville, Colorado’s historic preservation committee. He is on the show to discuss his writings and critiques, the role of historians at this moment in time and Leadville's unique historical standing. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt as is recorded on campus in wonderful Arcata, California.

    57 min

  4. MAY 20

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode 57: Dr. Jalil on How Propaganda Becomes Truth in Healthcare and Public Higher Education in California ⁠

    Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good. Today we are excited to welcome Dr. Hanni Jalil to the show! She is an historian of health, disease, and medicine in Latin America and is interested in studying how people, including medical doctors, intellectuals, state officials, and community members, discuss, define, and frame disease, health, and citizenship.She has a bachelor's in history from Cal State Northridge, an M.A. in history from UC San Diego, and her Ph.D. in Modern Latin America with an emphasis on Science and Technology Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnicity from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining CSU Channel Islands, she was an Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities at ICESI University in Cali-Colombia. This conversation focuses on a close look at the range of experience within public higher education in California and Dr. Jalil's career as an educator and her research. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt as is recorded on campus in wonderful Arcata, California

    45 min

  5. MAY 13

    Episode 56: On Martha Nussbaum and Chapter One of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good. This episode focuses on Dr. Martha Nussbaum and chapter one of her book Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. From the Princeton University Press website "In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education." Not for Profit is a bit of a bible for our show and Martha Nussbaum and her work have been mentioned too many times to count. We will be dedicating one episode to each of the chapters in the book to draw attention to this important content! Watch out for those shows in the coming months! Thanks for joining us! Share, rate and review the podcast wherever you follow your shows! Works Cited: The education wars by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider ⁠Demoracy and Education ⁠by John Dewey Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the LandBook by Leah Penniman ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt as is recorded on campus in wonderful Arcata, California.

    44 min

  6. MAR 19

    Episode 55: Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin and a Deep Look at Sustained and Thoughtful Engagement to Place Through Sociology

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good. Our guest today is Professor Enkeshi El-Amin,  a community sociologist, a cultural worker and a social entrepreneur. She studies the link between race and place and Black community life in Appalachia and beyond and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Agnes Scott College, where she teaches courses on race, place, urban sociology, community sociology and social theory. Enkeshi completed her master’s degree in Pan African studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York and her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Africana Studies at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She hosts the Black in Appalachia podcast and in response to finding feelings of displacement and loss of space for Black communities in her research, Dr. El-Amin founded “The Bottom” in East Knoxville as a hub to build community, celebrate culture, and engage in the creativity of Black people. Enkeshi shares about her career journey and a return to her alma mater as a Professor. It was great to have another podcaster on the show to discuss an in depth look at a particular region and the modality of podcasting as an accessible form of research. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson

    59 min

  7. MAR 12

    Episode 54: Dr. James Mestaz on Humans, Water and the Humanities

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good. This week's guest Dr. James Mestaz, Assistant Professor of History at Sonoma State University. His first book Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico is an Environmental and Ethnohistory that interrogates the historic connection between humans and water through the lens of the Mayo Indians of Sinaloa, Mexico and their changing interaction with their river system from the 1920s to 1970. His courses focus largely on the histories of marginalized groups, allowing students to draw connections between past and current social and environmental justice struggles. This approach fits into his commitment to linking students to grassroots and community organizations in both the U.S. and Latin America. James joined the show to discuss his research, pedagogy and current events around higher ed, including at his own institution of Sonoma State University, just a few hours away from us at Cal Poly Humboldt. You can purchase Strength Through the Waters here. And email James directly @ mestazj@sonoma.edu if you want to purchase a signed copy directly from the author! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson

    47 min

  8. MAR 5

    Episode 53: Adam Zweber on Using Philosophy to Teach AI

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good. This week's guest is Adam Zweber, who is currently a lecturer at University of North Carolina -Wilmington. He received his PhD from Stanford, an M.A. in philosophy from Western Michigan University and a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College.  He also edits the ​AI and Teaching Series for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association. His academic interests include issues related to epistemology and the philosophy of science. We invited Adam onto the show to discuss his recent article for Inside Higher Ed entitled To Teach Students to Use AI, Teach Philosophy. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson

    49 min
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A podcast that explores the liberal arts as an educational system emphasizing inquiry, personal development and innovation that is foundational to a healthy, inclusive, and progressive society. Cal Poly Humboldt College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Dean and environmental historian Jeff Crane, hosts a wide range of guests whose experiences as students of the liberal arts have shaped their lives in school, as professionals, and in their lives outside of their careers. Presented by Cal Poly Humboldt's College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

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