Indoor Voices

Dr. Sarah Hoiland (Hostos Community College) talks with Dr. Calvin J. Smiley (Hunter College) about dismantling the prison industrial complex and shifting away from vengeful systems of reentry. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for information about Drs. Smiley and Hoiland.

Rich Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing at Lehman College, talks with Crissa-Jean Chappell, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and author of the recently published YA novel, Sun Don’t Shine (Fitzroy Books, January 2024). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Faculty from LaGuardia Community College discuss the Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes grant from the US Department of Justice to fund a comprehensive prison-to-college project at Queensboro Correctional Facility. Prof. Hugo Fernandez interviews Profs. John Chaney and Joni Schwartz-Chaney. For more information on the program and guests, visit Indoorvoicespodcast.com

Ann Matsuuchi (LaGuardia Community College), Caron Knauer (LaGuardia Community College), and Sherry Antoine (AfroCROWD), discuss Knauer’s book American Slavery on Film. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with Louis Bury, associate professor of English at Hostos Community College and author of The Way Things Go (punctum books, 2023). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with Dara Byrne, Dean of Macaulay Honors College. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with her CUNY librarian colleagues - Vikki Terrile, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College and Stephanie Margolin, Associate Professor and librarian at Hunter College – about pop culture scholarship in the academy and in their library careers.

Returning guest host Beth Harpaz talks with Helaine Helmreich, wife of the late Professor William Helmreich (Graduate Center/City College, Sociology) about Prof. Helmreich’s recently published book, The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Jayashree Kamblé and Tara Hickman of LaGuardia Community College discuss Jayashree’s book, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation] (Indiana University Press, 2023).

Lehman College professor Victoria Sanford talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Director for Communications & Marketing at Lehman, about her recently published book Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez & Her Father’s Quest for Justice.

Julie Turley (Kingsborough Community College) and Joan Jocson-Singh (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art) discuss their book, Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions, with Monica Berger (NYC College of Technology).

Kathleen talks with Samantha Majic, Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about her new book, Lights, Camera, Feminism: Celebrities and Anti-trafficking Politics. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Kathleen talks with John Jay's Interim Dean of Academic Programs and Professor of Political Science Andrew Sidman about the college's strategic plan initiative focusing on quantitative literacy and reasoning. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Angie Beeman (Baruch College) talks with Soribel Genao (Queens College) about Angie’s book, Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College. Her most recent book, She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969, showcases the courage of a range of black women in the face of racial prejudice and gender oppression. Gloria talks with John Jay College Media Relations Director, Rich Relkin about the book and about her other creative works, including the play Shot: Caught a Soul and Dreams of Emmett Till. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.

John Jay College Associate Professor of History Edward Paulino discusses his book Refranes de mi Abuelita: Sayings of my Grandmother and “Eddie’s Perejil,” his one-man performance about Dominican identity and the 1937 Haitian Massacre.

Rose Kim, faculty in Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice at BMCC, Wanett Clyde, library faculty at New York City Tech, and Cynthia Tobar, library faculty at Bronx Community College discuss Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice (DIO Press, 2022). For more information visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.

John Jay College’s Richard Relkin, director of Media Relations, and Evan Mandery, professor in criminal justice, discuss Evan’s new book, Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.

David J. Puglia talks with Mira Johnson about his edited collection, North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook (University Press of Colorado, 2022). For more info, visit indoorvoicespodcast.com

In September 2022, Chancellor Matos Rodriguez announced the recipients of the newly established Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (or BRESI) awards. 126 projects across CUNY will be funded from a $10 million gift from the Mellon Foundation with the goal of reimagining and expanding the study of race and ethnicity. In this episode, you'll hear a number of awardees describing their projects, providing a cross section of the innovative and vital work being carried about by our colleagues around the university. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more information.