Indoor Voices

Illuminating the activism of Black women Mar 28, 2021

Jeanne Theoharis (Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College) and Yoruba Richen (Directory of the Documentary Program at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) discuss Yoruba's recent film, How it Feels to Be Free, a documentary about six iconic African American women entertainers who champion civil rights and challenge racists stereotypes. Jeanne is the author of the award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. The two are collaborating on an upcoming project about Rosa Parks. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Episode 55: Amy Adamczyk on Handing Down the Faith Mar 15, 2021

Amy Adamczyk, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, talks with Indoor Voices about her latest book. She is co-author, along with University of Notre Dame Sociology Professor Christian Smith, of Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Oxford University Press, 2021)

From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television Mar 01, 2021

Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM, talks with Kathleen Collins, librarian and professor at John Jay College's Lloyd Sealy Library, about Kathleen's book, From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television published by the University Press of Mississippi.

Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris Feb 15, 2021

Edward Snadr and Shonna Trinch, John Jay College faculty and authors of What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn, talk with Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris, faculty members at Guttman Community College, about their book, Gentrification Down the Shore, published by Rutgers University Press.

David Pearson on punk rock in the 1990s U.S. Feb 01, 2021

In this episode, two punk scholars - Raymond Patton and David Pearson - discuss how punk operates and frames itself in different contexts and time periods, including issues of diversity and multiculturalism and the experiences and participation of immigrants, women, people of color, and the continuum or rejection of politics and commercialism. The occasion is the recent publication of David's book, Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States (Oxford University Press). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more info.

Episode 51: Experiential learning & Sopa de Albóndigas Jan 18, 2021

Cathy Davidson, Dree-el Simmons and Tatiana Ades share their experiences in creating We Eat: A Student-Centered Cookbook as part of the “Introduction to Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences” class in Spring 2020 offered by The Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center.

J Journal Presents Nov 18, 2020

The editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice talk with contributor Estha Weiner about her poetry. The biannual literary journal, edited by English department faculty Jeffrey Heiman and Adam Berlin, is produced at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Visit indoorvoicespocast.com.

Victoria Bond on Zora & Me: The Summoner Oct 26, 2020

John Jay College English dept. colleagues Allison Pease and Victoria Bond discuss Bond's finale to the award-winning trilogy, Zora and Me: The Summoner, a fictional series based on the life and work of anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Episode 48: Frederick Wasser on Twentieth Century Fox Oct 12, 2020

Frederick Wasser, Professor in the Department of Television, Radio and Emerging Media at Brooklyn college, chronicles the sweeping account of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio. His book serves as a survey of American film history and “at times it becomes a history of the century itself.”

Char Adams on amplifying COVID stories Sep 14, 2020

Char Adams is a race and identity journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Teen Vogue, People Magazine, and more. She is also the digital editor of CUNY SUM, the website for research, books, and creative works generated at CUNY. Char is also the co-creator of a new podcast, COVID University New York. Visit our blog at indoorvoicespodcast.com for more info about Char, her work, and the podcast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Episode 36: Mark Carpentieri on the flat tire shuffle Nov 04, 2019

Mark Carpentieri teaches public speaking at Queensborough Community College and is the owner of M.C. Records, a blues/roots music label based on the South Shore of Long Island. Mark is also a graduate of Queens College. In this interview, Mark shows the connection between public speaking and running a label, talks about the need for online teaching and learning, and explains what makes a good blues drummer. Suffice it to say, this interview covers a lot of ground.

As someone who loves music, talking to Mark about his life in the music industry was a real treat. As was his optimism about the music industry and about higher education.

Ray Patton on the contested story of punk Oct 28, 2019

In this episode, you’ll hear David Pearson, adjunct faculty in the music and general studies departments at CUNY Lehman College, in conversation with Ray Patton, Associate Professor of History and Faculty Director of the Honors Program and Macaulay Honors College at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice. They discuss Ray’s book, Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution (Oxford U. Press 2018). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more information.

Digital humanities with Matt Gold Oct 21, 2019

Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM, talks with Matthew K. Gold, associate professor of English and director of the M.A. program in digital humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center and co-editor of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019.

Heidi Diehl on writing, teaching, and zeitgleich Sep 17, 2019

Heidi Diehl, an adjunct lecturer and assistant director of the freshman composition program at Brooklyn College, discusses her new novel, Lifelines.

Jill Grose-Fifer Aug 21, 2019

Dr. Jill Grose-Fifer is an associate professor in the psychology department at John Jay College. She thinks deeply about her teaching and works hard to keep it interesting, effective and relevant. She is thus far the only two time winner of John Jay's Distinguished Teaching Prize. Earlier this year, she co-authored a book with Patricia J. Brooks and Maureen O'Connor called Teaching Psychology: An Evidence-Based Approach. It’s a practical and scholarly guide for teachers whether they're new to the job or looking to shake things up.

David Puglia on the Baltimore "Hon" May 16, 2019

David Puglia explains the story and implications of "hon" in his book Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore Hon: The Folk in the City (Lexington Books 2018). David is a folklorist, an assistant professor in the English Dept of Bronx Community College and a native Bawlmorean.

Jean Halley: Horse Crazy Apr 15, 2019

Jean Halley is a professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island and she teaches in the Women’s and Gender Studies Masters Degree Program. She studies and writes about gender, sexuality, race and cultural normativity and many subsets therein. Her most recent book, and the one we really focus on in this episode, is Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, will be out in July and is published by the University of Georgia Press. To learn more about Jean’s work, visit indoorvoicespodcast.com.

Episode 29: 'We Once Feared ATMs' Apr 08, 2019

Nicole Bode teaches at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism and is the head of Newsroom Sustainability for Civil. Civil is a fascinating project designed to help journalism, which, you may have heard, is going through a bit of a rough patch.

Civil does interesting things, like using the blockchain to archive content. What that means for librarians is that content won't disappear. News content can disappear for a variety of reasons, both accidental and deliberate. Civil is working to make sure the historical record remains intact.

Civil is also using cryptocurrency as a tool to help news organizations get paid. If you're like me, you know nothing about what cryptocurrency really is, but it makes you vaguely nervous. The knock on Civil is that it's complicated. Nicole addresses that concern, pointing out that ATMs once seemed hopelessly complex to people. And now, much less so. Unless you're using one in front of me. Then, they become impossibly complicated.

Nicole also gets into the similarities between the struggles of journalism and the struggles of public higher education.

It's an accessible, informative interview.

I promise.

Graduate fellows follow dreams, take on world Mar 31, 2019

Quadira Coles, Vanessa Gutiérrez, Wilmarie Feliz and Akanksha Anand are graduate students at John Jay College and are recipients of the Tow Policy Advocacy Fellowship and the Pinkerton Community Graduate Fellowship, student development initiatives coordinated by the Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI).

Michael Rain, digital storyteller Mar 25, 2019

Michael Rain is a 2017 alumnus of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He's the co-founder of ZNews Africa and founder of the Enodi project, a digital gallery that highlights the stories of first-generation black immigrants of African, Caribbean and Latin descent. This episode was recorded at the Made In NY Media Center, a collaborative workspace in Brooklyn where Michael recently completed a podcast certificate program produced through a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the Made in NY Media Center. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com where you can learn more about Michael's work.

Balis and Levy Revive Watergate Mar 18, 2019

Andrea Balis, a faculty member in history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Elizabeth Levy, a children’s book author, have marshaled their experience working in theater, politics, writing and historical research to produce a book for middle-grade students about the Watergate scandal. Their book is Bringing Down a President: The Watergate Scandal and will be published by Macmillan’s Roaring Brook Press in August of 2019.

Nancy K. Miller and the "pals of her desk" Feb 14, 2019

Nancy K. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. She talks about her latest book, My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism (Columbia University Press), with Jason Tougaw, professor of English at Queens College.

The Group That Won't Quit Feb 04, 2019

Ria Banerjee (Guttman Community College), Megan Behrent (NYC College of Tech), Allison Better (Kingsborough Community College), Sarah Hoiland (Hostos Community College), and Maria Julia Rossi (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) discuss their participation with the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program and the continuation of their active writing group that came about as a result.

Elizabeth Alsop Jan 25, 2019

Elizabeth Alsop is an assistant professor and academic director of Communication & Media and Liberal Studies at CUNY's School of Professional Studies and the author of the forthcoming book, Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio State U. Press, 2019). Read more about Elizabeth’s work at indoorvoicespodcast.com.

Sarah Hoiland on bikers, women and media Dec 16, 2018

Sarah Hoiland is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hostos Community College in the Behavioral & Social Sciences Department. As a feminist ethnographer, she is researching the historical and contemporary representations of women within the male dominated world of motorcycle club subculture. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for a link to her recent article “Impromptu Fiesta” or ‘Havoc in Hollister’: A Seventy-Year Retrospective” in the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies.

Edgardo Sanabria-Valentin Dec 10, 2018

Edgardo Sanabria-Valentín, Ph.D. is the Associate Program Director for PRISM (Program for Research Initiatives in Science and Math) and also the Pre-Health Careers Advisor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the recipient of the ESCMID Young Scientist Award (2007), a Leadership Alliance-Schering Plough Graduate Fellowship (2006), and the NBHS-Frank G. Brooks Award for Excellence in Student Research (2001). He is also a founding member of the NYC-Minority Graduate Student Network and The Leadership Alliance Alumni Association.

Episode 20: Debra Caplan Nov 12, 2018

Debra Caplan is an Assistant Professor of Theater in the Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College and the author of Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (U Michigan Press, 2018). She is interviewed by Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM.

Episode 19: Jason Tougaw Oct 29, 2018

Jason Tougaw is an associate professor in the English department at Queens College and the author of two recent books: The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience (Yale UP 2018) and The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism (Dzanc 2017). This episode title comes from a 2015 journal article he published in Modern Fiction Studies.

Beth Harpaz Oct 01, 2018

Beth Harpaz is the content editor for SUM, a new website showcasing CUNY research. She’s also the author of three books and a #recoveringjournalist after 35 years in newsrooms. Her work as travel editor for The Associated Press earned her the 2018 bronze award for travel journalist of the year from the Society of American Travel Writers and another SATW award for a podcast about visiting all 50 states. Follow her on Twitter @literarydj

Episode 17: The World According to Fannie Davis Sep 04, 2018

Bridgett Davis is a journalist, essayist, novelist, memoirist, filmmaker, teacher and director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at Baruch College. Her newest book, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers (Little, Brown in January 2019) is a compelling and touching tribute to her mother and to the business that supported her family for decades.

Episode 16, Part 2: The Things We All Do Aug 27, 2018

In part two of our exciting season finale, we continue our conversation with Stephanie and Jennifer, but allow the interview to degenerate into guilty TV pleasures and the addicting nature of social media.

Episode 16, Part 1: The Things We All Do Aug 20, 2018

In our exciting, surprise two-part season finale, we interview Professors Stephanie Margolin (Hunter) and Jennifer Poggiali (Lehman) about their workaround academic libraries and bathrooms. While the topic lends itself to fairly easy jokes, it’s fascinating and important, speaking to everything from student success to the human experience.

Anna Gotlib Jun 22, 2018

Anna Gotlib is a faculty in the Brooklyn College philosophy department and editor of The Moral Psychology of Sadness (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). The volume celebrates the rich opportunities for intellectual exploration within this complex and overlooked emotion. In this episode, Gotlib shares her reasons for choosing the topic and makes a strong case for allowing space – philosophical as well as social – for sadness, especially in American culture where frank discussions of sadness are generally frowned upon. Sadness can foster self-learning, give one’s life fuller meaning and quiet what Buddhists call the chattering monkey mind.

Episode 14: Barbara Gray Jun 06, 2018

Barbara Gray is writing a biography of 19th century grifter-turned-philanthropist, Sophie Lyons. She talks about the genesis of the project, her research process and gives us a sneak peak of Sophie's fascinating life. She also gives us a glimpse into her work with students in her role as the director of the Research Center at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Episode 13: Dana Weinberg May 29, 2018

I first met Dana Weinberg when I was a graduate student in the Queens College Applied Social Research program. She was, as you’ll soon hear for yourself, an incredible teacher. Her work at the time was around the sociology of nursing and we read Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing, an amazing book which I often give to nursing students. It’s beautiful, both in terms of its prose and its ideas.

I was very interested to learn Dana is now working on the sociology of digital publishing. Her article, “Comparing gender discrimination and inequality in indie and traditional publishing” (with her collaborator, Adam Kapelner), examines the impact of gendered names on publishing, finding that books written by male-sounding names sell for higher prices than female – across independent and traditional publishing (sorry Kathleen!).

Dana also studies digital publishing from the inside as novelistDB Shuster. Her latest book, To Catch a Traitor is a is a Cold War spy novel. I was moved by Dana’s thoughts on DB Shuster helping her to finder herself.

Also, in the spirit of correcting/clarifying, Dana correctly remembered that Art Worlds is by Howard Becker.

Episode 12: Linda Villarosa May 24, 2018

Linda Villarosa is a journalist and director of the journalism program at City College of New York.

Episode 11: Cereal and Hostful Confessions Apr 18, 2018

Steve and Kathleen shoot the breeze on this guest-free episode.

Episode 10: Richard Lieberman, La Guardia and Wagner Archives Feb 19, 2018

Richard Lieberman is the head of the La Guardia and Wagner Archives, which just happens to be housed at LaGuardia Community College, my home campus. In this interview, we touch on a lot of great topics, ranging from the importance of faculty-led projects, to Wikipedia, to Ed Koch’s mayorship. If these seem like disparate strands, then you’ve never met Richard, who masterfully ties together the strands of history.

"Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me": Quantifying Kissinger Feb 02, 2018

Micki Kaufman, a doctoral student in history at the CUNY Graduate Center, talks about her dissertation, “Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:’ Quantifying Kissinger.” She uses computational text analysis and visualization techniques to work with material from the Digital National Security Archive’s Kissinger collections.

Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution Feb 02, 2018

Robin Davis, librarian and assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, talks about her computational linguistics project, “Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution.” http://indoorvoicespodcast.com/2018/02/02/NYCDHW

Episode 7: Interview with Boone Gorges Nov 30, 2017

Boone Gorges is the lead developer for the CUNY Academic Commonsand a one-time CUNY grad student, making him uniquely qualified to navigate between the technical world and the academic one. As someone who truly believes free and open source software is the pillar of an informed society, I loved speaking with Boone, who can articulately argue that a broad technical understanding of our various systems--from operating systems to algorithms--is an important new literacy. He even makes a compelling case that understanding these systems, and understanding how best to focus our attention, is a form of information literacy, something that speaks to me as a librarian.

Fruitcakes, folkways and photo ops Nov 22, 2017

Interview with author Claire Stewart; http://indoorvoicespodcast.com/2017/11/22/episode-6-fruitcakes-folkways-and-photo-ops

"Dope fiends" take the stage Nov 03, 2017

Interview with Barry Spunt, Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Wraparound, Episodes 1-3 Oct 28, 2017

“Corralling scholarly cats…”: Jessie Daniels and Polly Thistlethwaite’s Being a Scholar in the Digital Era: Transforming Scholarly Practice for the Public Good Oct 28, 2017

A Pas de Deux: Two Social Movemements: Barbara Katz Rothman on her book, A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization Oct 28, 2017

Interview with Richard Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy Oct 28, 2017

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