American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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a social and political history of higher education

  1. 1d ago

    See You at the Pole, the Columbine massacre, and Christianity on campus with Amy Laura Hall

    Muscular Christianity and its various forms on the campus References and suggested readings: Amy Laura Hall. 2026. Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Bloomsbury.Theodore Roosevelt. 1899. The Strenuous Life speech.From the vault: [Lawrence] Wright talks to Alec Baldwin about Scientology and Tom Cruise. October 10, 2022.Darren Dochuk. 2019. Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. Basic Books.Bethany Moreton. 2010. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press.Daneil Silliman. 2021. An Evangelical Is Anyone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust. Church History, 90(3): 621-643.Darren E. Grem. 2014. Christianity Today: J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism. Enterprise and Society, 15(2): 337-379.Ahmanson family’s Institute on Religion and Democracy WikiAdam Laats’s research on K12 schools Geoffrey Canada’s Wiki Waiting for Superman trailer on IMDBDana Goldstein. September 23, 2010. Grading Waiting for Superman. The Nation.Julie A. Webber. 2002. Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence. Rowman & Littlefield.Frank Deford. September 8, 2010. Football Fans Ignore Increasing Violence. NPR.Audre Lorde. 1982. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Crossing Press.Ayoush Lazikani. 2025. Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing. Yale University Press.Amy Laura Hall’s faculty page, Twitter, BlueskyText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    See You at the Pole, the Columbine massacre, and Christianity on campus with Amy Laura Hall

  2. 5d ago

    The Flexner Report and contemporary critiques of medical professionalization with Ira Halpern

    References and suggested readings: Ira Halpern. 2026. Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature. University of Massachusetts Press.Abraham Flexner. 1910. Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Regina Kunzel. 2024. In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life. University of Chicago Press.Ivan Illich. 2000. Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health. Marion Boyars Publishers.Ira Halpern’s faculty page Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  3. Jul 19

    Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and algorithms with Xiaochang Li

    On the origins of natural language processing and how corporations like IBM leaned into predictive algorithms. References and suggested readings: Xiaochang Li. 2026. Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture. University of Chicago Press.Anil Seth. July 15, 2026. “Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts.” The Guardian.Paul Kockelman. 2024. Last Words: Large Language Model and the AI Apocalypse. Prickly Paradigm Press.Lief Weatherby. 2025. Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism. University of Minnesota Press.Carlo Ginzburg. 2026. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, 50th anniversary edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.Kate Crawford. 2022. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press.Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones. 2024. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. W. W. Norton.Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schütze. 2026. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press.Danial Jurafsky and James Martin. 2026. Speech and Language Processing.Xiaochang Li’s faculty page and @xiaochang@bsky.socialText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and algorithms with Xiaochang Li

  4. Jul 15

    Tragedy of the education commons with Guy Standing

    References and suggested readings: Guy Standing. 2026. Human Capital:  The Tragedy of the Education Commons. Penguin Press. “Linda McMahon slaps her daughter Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: RAW IS WAR, Apr. 17, 2000”Nafeez Ahmed, Peter Jukes,  and Hardeep Matharu. July 9, 2026. Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed. Byline Times.Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. 2011. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change. Bloomsbury.Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. 2021. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War. Pluto Press.Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff. 2026. Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Harper.Hannah Arendt. The Human Condition.Guy Standing. 2021. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class Special Covid-19 Edition. IB Taurus & Co.Guy Standing. 2023. The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea. Pelican.Guy Standing’s websiteText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  5. Jul 10

    Revilo Oliver and the academic freedom of white supremacists with Matthew C. Ehrlich

    References and suggested readings: Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2021. Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK. University of Illinois Press.Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press.Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine episode with Matthew C. EhrlichMichael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth. 2022. It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Johns Hopkins University Press.Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold Type Books.Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) episode with Mary Anne FranksJacob Holmes. June 9, 2026. “Auburn board takes control of curricula, dissolves faculty senate.” Alabama Political Reporter.Thomas Milan Konda. 2019. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America. University of Chicago Press.John Durham Peters. 2020. Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. University of Chicago Press.Jim Windolf. 2026. Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World. Scribner.Matthew C. Ehrlich’s faculty pageText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  6. Jul 5

    Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus with Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin

    References and suggested readings: Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin. 2026. Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus. Harvard Education Press. CODE FOR 20% OFF: HCPR26  Elijah Anderson. 2023. Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press.Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2025. Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times. Basic Books.Sarah J. Mass. 2023. Throne of Glass. Bloomsbury.Colin Diver. 2022. Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It. Johns Hopkins University Press.Follow Lauren N. Irwin and Zak Foste on LinkedInText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  7. Jul 1

    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

    Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres

  8. Jun 28

    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

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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
    148
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    © 2026 American Campus Podcast
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