American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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a social and political history of higher education

  1. 3h ago

    Repressing Palestine on campus before October 7 with Omar Zahzah

    References and suggested readings: Omar Zahzah, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle (The Censored Press, 2025)Omar Zahzah, “A Question of Violence: Palestine in American Academia After October 7,” The Palestine Chronicle, April 3, 2026Eman Ghanayem and Theresa Rocha Beardall, “The University Is a Colony,” Diacritics 52, no. 1 (2024): 8-23Omar Zahzah, “Michigan 8 case is part of a broader pattern of repression,” The Electronic Intifada, August 49, 2026Omar Zahzah, “Two UCSD Professors Face Suspension in the War on Campus Protest,” Institute for Palestine Studies blog, September 3, 2026Purge palentir: Find Palentir near youMESA AFI report on attacks on academic workers since October 7thLearn more about the Civility Industrial ComplexDominique J. Baker, “What’s Wrong With Civilty?” Inside Higher Ed, October 13, 2026Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2011)Sidney Hook, Academic Freedom and Academic Anarchy (Cowles Book Company, 1970)Omar Zahzah’s website and faculty pageText the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  2. 3d ago

    The university budget with Merle Eisenberg

    Apologies for the mic difficulties on Lauren's end! References and suggested readings: Merle Eisenberg’s faculty pageInfectious Historians podcastDean O. Smith, How University Budgets Work (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)Dean O. Smith, University Finances: Accounting and Budgeting Principles for Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)Chris Newfield, The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)Office Hours with EABDavid Arnold, Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 (Oxford University Press, 2022)Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018)Text the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  3. Oct 7

    Tuition discounting with Phillip Levine

    References and suggested readings: Phillip B. Levine, Hidden Tuition: An Insider's Guide to College Pricing and Financial Aid (University of Chicago Press, 2026)ON COST DISEASE: Dennis M. Hogan, Artificial Negligence: Why are college administrators so eager to adopt AI? Hedgehog Review, Summer 2026Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People (Simon & Schuster, 2025)Phillip Levine on LinkedIn, MyIntuition.org, Brookings InstitutionText the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  4. Oct 3

    What colleges (don’t) do about sexual assault with Nicole Bedera

    The Title IX process is working as intended. References mentioned this episode: Kendall Danielle Francis explains her assault and her Title IX experienceNicole Bedera, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators  and Betray Survivors of Sexual Assault (University of California Press, 2024).Classroom resources to accompany On the Wrong SideNicole Bedera’s websiteText the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  5. Sep 30

    Edmund Burke, father of conservatism with Austin Clements

    References and suggested readings: Austin J. Clements, ‘The Franco Way’: The American Right and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, Journal of Contemporary History 57(2), 341-364Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolutions in FranceCorey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2017)Katy Hull, The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2025)John Patrick Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (Princeton University Press, 2015)Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to EliotDavid Austin Walsh, Liberals Are to Blame for the Rise of J. D. Vance, Boston Review, July 22, 2024George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (ISI Books, 2006).Perry Anderson, Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War (Verso, 2026)Austin’s faculty page, Instagram @clementsaustinj, and email aclemen8@nd.edu Text the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  6. Sep 27

    Real estate, private equity, and Abundance with Billy Fleming

    References and suggested readings: Billy Fleming, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026).Marshall Terrill, “ASU ranks No. 1 nationally, No. 2 globally for sustainability,” ASU News, September 8, 2026.Davarian L. Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (Bold Type, 2021).Kevin Kovaleski, “ASU reaches milestone enrollment,” ASU News, August 10, 2026.Holly Jean Buck, Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough (Verso, 2021).Thea Riofrancos, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (W. W. Norton, 2025).Joshua Hong, “Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain,” Yahoo! Finance, August 12, 2026.“AI can make our lives better,” Senator John Kennedy on NBC NewsThe Expanse seriesAlyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton University Press, 2025).Follow Billy Fleming on Twitter and BlueskyText the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

  7. Sep 23

    Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology with Rod Flower

    References and suggested readings: Rod Flower. 2026. Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology. Yale University Press.On the CIA and LSD: MKUltra wikiAldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell.“Celebrities Who’ve Shared Their Ayahuasca Experiences: From Chelsea Handler to Aaron Rodgers.” US Magazine.Freud’s monograph on cocaine: Sigmund Freud. 1894. Über Coca.Rod Flower’s faculty pageText the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology with Rod Flower

  8. Sep 20

    The takeover of New College of Florida with Harry Hanbury and Gaby Batista

    References and suggested readings: Film website: https://www.firsttheycameformycollege.com/ Rodrigo Diaz, “3 years later, the 'old' New College looks much better,” Sarasota Herald Tribune, January 20, 2026Joshua Janniere, “At the front line of the culture war,” American Reformer, May 1, 2023Adam R Nelson, Dartmouth College V. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good (University Press of Kansas, 2025)Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist (Vintage, 2019)R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism (Harry N. Abrams, 2024)Old School CatalystText the show here! Support the show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ACP! Leave us feedback here! Browse the American Campus bookshelf

    The takeover of New College of Florida with Harry Hanbury and Gaby Batista
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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
    169
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 American Campus Podcast
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