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Recent Guests

Jeremiah McCall
High school history teacher and scholar of historical games and practical game pedagogy
Episode: Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators with Jeremiah McCall (Routledge, 2026)
George D. Oberle
Historian and librarian researching information, knowledge institutions, and the early American republic
Episode: Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic with George D. Oberle (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Elizabeth de Freitas
Editor and scholar of learning and education
Episode: Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Matthew X. Curinga
Editor and scholar of learning sciences
Episode: Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román
Editor and scholar examining algorithms, education, and colonial forms of reason
Episode: Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Laura Portwood-Stacer
Author of The Book Proposal Book, A Guide for Scholarly Authors
Princeton University Press (editorial partner discussed)
Episode: Laura Portwood-Stacer, "The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Donald Barclay
Author of The Reinvention of the U.S. Academic Library, 1990 to 2025
Bloomsbury (publisher)
Episode: Donald A. Barclay, "The Reinvention of the U.S. Academic Library: 1990 to 2025" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Baruch Fischhoff
Howard Hines University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; leading scholar in behavioral decision research
Carnegie Mellon University
Episode: Baruch Fischhoff, "Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Bradley Distinguished Professor of History and Philosophy at Adelaide University
Adelaide University
Episode: Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)

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Group of hosts drawn from the New Books Network family, spanning university presses, library science, and higher education-focused programs.

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    This is a podcast is not about the future of higher education, it is about defending the status quo that benefit mostly white men.

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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Q: How did the term more-than-human learning come to be, and what does it mean?
Elizabeth de Freitas explains that the term frames learning as an ecological transformation involving human and nonhuman actors, technologies, and environments, rather than an achievement located solely within an individual.
Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Q: What do you mean by algorithmic conditions, and how would you say that shapes learning?
The editors describe algorithmic conditions as the networked systems and everyday interactions with algorithms that shape experience, social life, and learning, often whether people choose to engage with them or not.
Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators with Jeremiah McCall (Routledge, 2026)
Q: What advice would you give educators who are interested in introducing historical game design into their classrooms, but may not have prior experience with game design or game-based learning?
McCall recommends trying a simple historical game, then having students analyze and adapt it to another historical context. Teachers can also run a short, low-stakes design activity and debrief afterward. Choice-based texts are an especially manageable starting point and can be made with index cards, PowerPoint, Google Docs, paper, or Twine.
Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators with Jeremiah McCall (Routledge, 2026)
Q: What are the most important reasons for teachers or professors to work with games in history and social studies classrooms?
McCall says games help students consider agency, systems, choices, and the limits on decision-making. Research for a game must be practical and relevant because its elements need to work together, and he argues that students can benefit from trying game design somewhere in the curriculum.
Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic with George D. Oberle (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Q: What was the vision for a national university, and why did it not happen?
Leaders including George Washington wanted an institution that would educate national leaders, provide access to scientific learning, and foster bonds across regions. Critics feared it would create a new aristocracy and favored education organized locally, so the proposal did not gain sufficient support.

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A rigorous, scholarship-forward channel that centers conversations with authors, editors, and researchers about recent higher education and related humanities research. Episodes frequently explore the history and future of universities, teaching and pedagogy, open-access educational resources, and the role of media and archives in scholarly work. Notable strengths include interdisciplinary guests spanning library science, Jewish studies, history of education, and science communication, plus a consistent emphasis on how research translates into teaching, policy, and public understanding. This mix makes it especially useful for listeners who want nuanced, academically informed perspectives on higher education, scholarly publishing, and pedago... more

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