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

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 [https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/9798895570722/disrupting-white-noise/]. Harvard Education Press. CODE FOR 20% OFF: HCPR26   * Elijah Anderson. 2023. Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780226826417]. University of Chicago Press. * Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2025. Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781541606616]. Basic Books. * Sarah J. Mass. 2023. Throne of Glass [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781639730957]. Bloomsbury. * Colin Diver. 2022. Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781421443058]. Johns Hopkins University Press. * Follow Lauren N. Irwin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurennirwin] and Zak Foste [https://www.linkedin.com/in/zak-foste-609a4330] on LinkedIn Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

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 [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780820375304]. University of Georgia Press.  * Alex Hyres’s faculty page [https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u6019505] * Heather Andrea Williams. 2007. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780807858219]. University of North Carolina Press. * James D. Anderson. 1988. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780807842218]. University of North Carolina Press.  * Jarvis R. Givens. 2023. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278752]. Harvard University Press. * Vanessa Siddle Walker. 1996. Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780807845813]. University of North Carolina Press. * School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/episodes/18332222] episode with Kate Eichhorn  * Scott Anderson. 2025. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780385548076]. Doubleday. * Instagram @hyres376 [https://www.instagram.com/hyres376/] Bluesky @hyres376.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/hyres376.bsky.social], linktree  [https://linktr.ee/hyres376] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

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 [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781421454351]. Johns Hopkins University Press.  * Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780226738239]. University of Chicago Press. * Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781421419886]. Johns Hopkins University Press. * Bavarian L. Baldwin. 2021. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781568588926]. Bold Type Books. * David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781501779961]. Cornell University Press. * Matteo Pasquinelli. 2023. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781788730068]. Verso. * Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781774645093]. * Sean Keilen. 2026. Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780691272634]. Princeton University Press. * Chadwellmon.com [http://chadwellmon.com] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

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 [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780374607647]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. * Samuel Moyn. April 23, 2026. Professors Are Too Old: The Academy’s Gerontocracy Problem is Worse than Anyone Admits [https://www.chronicle.com/article/professors-are-too-old]. The Chronicle of Higher Education. * Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. 2023. The Stronghold [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781681377148]. NYRB Classics. * Nazmul Sultan. 2024. Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780674290372]. Harvard University Press. * Samuel Moyn’s faculty page [https://law.yale.edu/samuel-moyn] * Follow Sam on X, The Everything App, @samuelmoyn [https://x.com/samuelmoyn] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

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 [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780226824222]. University of Chicago Press. * Jesse Bering’s website [https://www.jessebering.com/about] * Bering in Mind [https://beringinmind.substack.com/] Substack Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]