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Storefront signs and place-making in Brooklyn Aug 10, 2020

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Shonna Trinch is a sociolinguist and faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College, and Edward Snajdr is a cultural anthropologist and faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College. Their book, What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn (Vanderbilt University Press), is the result of a decade of ethnographic research that deconstructs the public language of storefronts and the wide-ranging but often nuanced effects of these signs on a community’s inhabitants as well as on visitors, developers, and potential residents. While signage may seem like mere words, Trinch and Snajdr show how significantly interconnected signs are with so many urban issues - real estate, gentrification, race, and class.

Margot Mifflin on Miss America Jul 30, 2020

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Margot Mifflin, Professor of English at Lehman College and the Newmark Journalism School is the author of Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood which will be released by Counterpoint Press on August 4. In this episode, she talks with Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM.

Jean Halley Returns Jun 22, 2020

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Jean Halley is Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She discusses her memoir-in-progress that includes themes of the Western U.S., race, violence, and memory itself.

Episode 43: Stationery in the Time of...You Know... Apr 06, 2020

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Kathleen and Steve catch up on stationery, online learning, and don't even get too into why video conferencing is a pain.

Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets Mar 16, 2020

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In her newest book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford University Press, 2019), Elissa Bemporad explores two extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the early 1960s. Elissa is assistant professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center, where she specializes in Russian and Eastern European Jewish history, gender, and genocide studies. She is interviewed by Beth Harpaz.

Episode 41: Sharon Zukin on the Innovation Complex Feb 26, 2020

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Sharon Zukin, Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, discusses her book, The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy, with Richard Ocejo, Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Trópico en Manhattan Feb 20, 2020

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Bret Maney, assistant professor in the English department at CUNY’s Lehman College and Cristina Perez Jimenez, assistant professor in English at Manhattan College, talk about the English translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s 1951 novel, Manhattan Tropics (Trópico en Manhattan), published by Arte Público Press.

Episode 39: Podcasts - prose & pedagogy Jan 06, 2020

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Christen Madrazo and Alan Winson, both faculty members in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Nora Almeida, a library faculty member at New York City College of Technology, talk about how they use podcasting in their work with students at CUNY.

Twelve years of creative writing on justice Dec 09, 2019

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Adam Berlin and Jeffrey Heiman are faculty members in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and are the editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice. The biannual literary journal, which features fiction, poetry, and personal narrative about contemporary justice issues, has been published biannually since 2008. The 24th issue will be available later this month. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more information on our guests.

Episode 37: Julia Miele Rodas Nov 18, 2019

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Julia Miele Rodas is Professor in the English Department at Bronx Community College and the author of Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe. In this episode, she has a conversation with fellow disability studies scholar, Olivia Moy, Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College.

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