Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Today's guest is Professor Patrick Duggan. Dr. Patrick Duggan is Professor of Performance Culture and Resilience and the Head of the Winchester School of Art and an interdisciplinary scholar at the University of Southampton. His work explores the cultural, political, and social functions of performance in times of crisis. He is fascinated by why we (still) make performance—what it does, what it means, and how it shapes the world around us. His research engages with contemporary aesthetic practices and everyday performance events, from protests and carnival parades to political speeches and media representations, asking how performance helps us witness, respond to, and make sense of complex social realities.
His ongoing project Performing City Resilience can be read more about here and Performing New Orleans, his recently published book with Stuart Andrew can be read about and purchased here,directly from Louisiana State University Press. To learn more about the book, you can also watch this interview with Patrick from Great Day Louisiana.
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This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt and is recorded on campus in beautiful Arcata, California.
Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Today's guest is Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. Dr. Pasquerella was appointed president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in 2016 after serving as the eighteenth president of Mount Holyoke College. She has held positions as Provost at the University of Hartford and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Rhode Island, where she taught for more than two decades. A philosopher whose work has combined teaching and scholarship with local and global engagement, Pasquerella has written extensively on medical ethics, metaphysics, public policy, and the philosophy of law.
We brought Lynn on the show to discuss her Inside Higher Ed article Our Debate Over Higher Ed Has Lost the Plot . and other ideas she has and writing she has completed on the topic of a liberal arts education. This conversation is ever relevant and Lynn's vision of the possibilities of higher education is inspiring to listen to and share.
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This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt and is recorded on campus in beautiful Arcata, California.
Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Dr. Lee Bebout is back on the show (first featured in episode 13) this month to discuss an article he co-authored with Jeff for Inside Higher Ed entitled What We Mean by ‘Shared Governance’. The essay was published this week.
On the show, they discuss the conversations that led to the essay, their own experiences with shared governance and ideas for improvement of dynamics and practices between faculty and administration.
Lee is a professor of English at Arizona State University where he is also an affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. His research focuses on the areas of Chicano Studies and Whiteness. His most recent book Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice is forthcoming from NYU Press, set to be released in October. His previous book, "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White" (NYU 2016), examines how representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans have been used to foster whiteness and Americanness, or more accurately whiteness as Americanness. We are happy to have Lee back on the show!
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This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt and is recorded on campus in beautiful Arcata, California.
Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Today's guest is Scott Spillman, an American historian and the author of the book Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today (2025). His essays and reviews have appeared in The Point, Liberties, The New Yorker, The New Republic, n+1, the Chronicle Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he has published academic articles in Reviews in American History, History of Education Quarterly, and North Carolina Historical Review. Scott has a PhD in history from Stanford University, and before that he studied history, English, and political philosophy at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. And he serves as the Chair of Leadville, Colorado’s historic preservation committee. He is on the show to discuss his writings and critiques, the role of historians at this moment in time and Leadville's unique historical standing.
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This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt as is recorded on campus in wonderful Arcata, California.
Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Today we are excited to welcome Dr. Hanni Jalil to the show! She is an historian of health, disease, and medicine in Latin America and is interested in studying how people, including medical doctors, intellectuals, state officials, and community members, discuss, define, and frame disease, health, and citizenship.She has a bachelor's in history from Cal State Northridge, an M.A. in history from UC San Diego, and her Ph.D. in Modern Latin America with an emphasis on Science and Technology Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnicity from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining CSU Channel Islands, she was an Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities at ICESI University in Cali-Colombia.
This conversation focuses on a close look at the range of experience within public higher education in California and Dr. Jalil's career as an educator and her research.
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This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt as is recorded on campus in wonderful Arcata, California
Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree, a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
This episode focuses on Dr. Martha Nussbaum and chapter one of her book Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. From the Princeton University Press website "In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education."
Not for Profit is a bit of a bible for our show and Martha Nussbaum and her work have been mentioned too many times to count. We will be dedicating one episode to each of the chapters in the book to draw attention to this important content! Watch out for those shows in the coming months!
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Works Cited:
The education wars by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider
Demoracy and Education by John Dewey
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the LandBook by Leah Penniman
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This show is created and supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt as is recorded on campus in wonderful Arcata, California.
Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Our guest today is Professor Enkeshi El-Amin, a community sociologist, a cultural worker and a social entrepreneur. She studies the link between race and place and Black community life in Appalachia and beyond and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Agnes Scott College, where she teaches courses on race, place, urban sociology, community sociology and social theory. Enkeshi completed her master’s degree in Pan African studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York and her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Africana Studies at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She hosts the Black in Appalachia podcast and in response to finding feelings of displacement and loss of space for Black communities in her research, Dr. El-Amin founded “The Bottom” in East Knoxville as a hub to build community, celebrate culture, and engage in the creativity of Black people.
Enkeshi shares about her career journey and a return to her alma mater as a Professor. It was great to have another podcaster on the show to discuss an in depth look at a particular region and the modality of podcasting as an accessible form of research.
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
This week's guest Dr. James Mestaz, Assistant Professor of History at Sonoma State University. His first book Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico is an Environmental and Ethnohistory that interrogates the historic connection between humans and water through the lens of the Mayo Indians of Sinaloa, Mexico and their changing interaction with their river system from the 1920s to 1970. His courses focus largely on the histories of marginalized groups, allowing students to draw connections between past and current social and environmental justice struggles. This approach fits into his commitment to linking students to grassroots and community organizations in both the U.S. and Latin America.
James joined the show to discuss his research, pedagogy and current events around higher ed, including at his own institution of Sonoma State University, just a few hours away from us at Cal Poly Humboldt.
You can purchase Strength Through the Waters here. And email James directly @ mestazj@sonoma.edu if you want to purchase a signed copy directly from the author!
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
This week's guest is Adam Zweber, who is currently a lecturer at University of North Carolina -Wilmington. He received his PhD from Stanford, an M.A. in philosophy from Western Michigan University and a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College. He also edits the AI and Teaching Series for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association. His academic interests include issues related to epistemology and the philosophy of science. We invited Adam onto the show to discuss his recent article for Inside Higher Ed entitled To Teach Students to Use AI, Teach Philosophy.
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Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson
Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Our guest this week is Dr. Neil Kraus, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. He teaches several courses in American politics and public policy, and specializes in urban politics and policies. He was first featured on the show in Episode 49 and he is back on the show today to discuss a letter he wrote to the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin River Falls in response to statements he made in the student newspaper "Student Voice". This particular quote stands out: "When Chancellor Martin refers to “change in the wind,” he fails to mention who’s in charge of the wind machine. He seems to be arguing in favor of a fully privatized UWRF, a campus funded by donors, corporations, and foundations, which will necessarily reflect their narrow economic interests. Private funders have no interest in training students for the larger labor market let alone to be well informed, democratic citizens."
Listen to the episode for a full analysis of where the value seems to lie for the administrators with the most power in higher ed, focusing on the University of Wisconsin system as an example.
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
New America is a think tank founded in 1999 that focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy.Kevin Carey, who is the Vice President of Education and Work at New America and directs the Education Policy program and Sophie Nugyen, who is a senior policy manager with the higher education team at New America are both on the show to discuss their co written article Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed that was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
This conversation show cases some great ideas and highlights trends and false narratives in and around higher ed.
Works Cited:
New America's brief, Americans Have Not Actually Turned Against Higher Education Like the Media Says
New America's annual survey, Varying Degrees
And Steve Burd's book, Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Our guest for this episode is Dr. DeLisa D. Hawkes , an African American Studies scholar and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of English and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Tennessee. Her areas of study include Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century African American Literature, African American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a current focus on literary depictions of interactions between African Americans and Native Americans during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her work has been supported by several fellowships and grants and her research and writing has been published widely in several publications.
This episode looks at the role of literature in research, questioning what makes some works canonical and why others are left out, and the shared love and appreciation that DeLisa and Jeff both have for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
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Welcome back to Yeah, I Got a F#@*ing job with a Liberal Arts Degree. This week's episode features a conversation with Dr. Neil Kraus who is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. He teaches several courses in American politics and public policy, and specializes in urban politics and policies. And he is the author three books Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics (2013, University of Michigan Press), Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997 (2000, State University of New York Press), and The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement (2023, Temple University Press. We invited Neil on the show because his work, research and The Fantasy Economy were suggested to us by previous guest David C. K. Curry , who was featured on episode 36 of the show.
This conversation is ever relevant as we head into a time of potential upheaval in policy around education. The Attention Economy and Dr. Kraus's research are so well laid out to explain the role that higher education should play within society, and how that has been weaponized by groups interested in diminishing it's value. This conversation is sobering and necessary as we look ahead to what's next.
A description from Temple University Press of The Fantasy Economy: "The Fantasy Economy challenges the basic assumptions of the education reform movement of the last few decades. Kraus insists that education cannot control the labor market and unreliable corporate narratives fuel this misinformation. Moreover, misguided public policies, such as accountability and school choice, along with an emphasis on workforce development and STEM over broad-based liberal arts education, have only produced greater inequality."
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
For this week's episode Jennifer Berkshire is back on the show to discuss her co-authored and recently released book The Education Wars. Jennifer is a teacher in the Boston college Prison Education Program. She is also a a journalist and the co-host, alongside Jack Schneider, of the Have You Heard podcast, which is about education policy. Her work explores the intersection of public education and politics and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, the New Republic and many other publications. She was first featured on Episode 27 of our podcast, and it was a great conversation, go back and listen to it if you haven’t already! Jennifer and Jeff discuss the The Education Wars and some hopeful stories from her research on and experience from the education policy world!
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
This week's guest is Dr. Dylan Harris, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Dylan is a broadly trained nature-society geographer with concentrations in political ecology, climate politics, energy politics, critical folklore studies, experimental methods, and environmental/climate justice. He considers himself to be a synergistic scholar and enjoys the creative process of working across and combining insights from multiple disciplines, connecting seemingly disparate threads of thought and bringing them forward in his research and teaching. It is important to him that his work extends beyond the university through sustained community partnerships, accessible writing, and collaborative research projects. Dylan was introduced to us by Dr. Alex Moulton, a guest on episode 42 and a fellow geographer.
This conversation touches on a lot, including Jeff and Dylan's shared connection to Mississippi, how living in many different places has informed Dylan's work, and the creation of new structures for research in the field of geography. This is an interesting conversation for those inside and outside of academia!
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Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is back on the show today! Asheesh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an historian of early America, early modern Europe, and the British empire whose research and pedagogy explores the role of collecting, managing, and using knowledge to the history of state formation and governance. He received his PhD from Columbia University, his Master’s from the University of Oxford and his Bachelor’s from Princeton University. His work has been featured in many scholarly publications and he has also written for public facing outlets such as The Daily Beast, Inside Higher Ed, and Teen Vogue. Asheesh was first featured on Episode 21 of the show.
This conversation reflects on the widespread college campus protests in the Spring of 2024 and how administrative forces working against the stated purpose of higher education.
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Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Rosemary Sherriff, Professor of Geography at Cal Poly Humboldt. We are always excited to feature professors that call our school home. There is a lot of exciting work being done at Humboldt and speaking with faculty about their research and areas of interest is a great reminder of that.
Rosemary started at Humboldt in 2009 after completing her PhD and Masters in Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since then, research in her Dendroecology Lab has included western forests ranging from Alaska, the Rockies, to northern California. Recent research themes include stand dynamics and tree-growth response to climate, disturbance and forest management practices in redwood, oak and mixed conifer forests of northwest California; climate and spruce beetle effects across white spruce ecosystems near the North American boreal-tundra margin in southwest Alaska; and mixed-severity fire regimes in Montane forests of the Colorado wildland-urban interface and the broader western U.S. She has a lot on her plate and had just returned from a trip when we had the chance to sit down with her.
As an environmental historian who focuses on the areas of climate change, thrivance and food security, Jeff had a lot of questions for Rosemary about her research and the future of Humboldt county.
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Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree! Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and higher education as a personal and public good. And we have a great, helpful and sobering episode for you today.
Dr. Bradford Vivian is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching focuses on theories of rhetoric (or the art of persuasion) and public controversies over collective memories of past events. Vivian is the author of four books; Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education, Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance and Public Culture, Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again and Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation. He is on the show today to discuss his article recently published on Inside Higher Ed entitled The Roots of Anti-University Rhetoric.
This conversation focuses on current events and movements in relationship to higher education and the current narratives that are weaponized against it.
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Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree! Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and higher education as a personal and public good.
This week's guest is Cal Poly Humboldt's own Dr. Sarah Ray.
Sarah has been Program Leader of the Environmental Studies Program here at Humboldt since 2013. She received her PhD in Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy, with a focal department of English, from the University of Oregon in 2009. She also holds a BA in Religious Studies from Swarthmore College and a MA in American Studies from UT-Austin. In addition to having edited three collections of environmental studies writing, her first book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture, published in 2013, explores the ways that environmental discourse often reinforces existing social hierarchies, drawing on a legacy of nativist, racial, and ableist exclusion in environmental history. Her current work is on the role of emotions, mindsets, and collective wisdom in climate justice activism, especially among younger generations. This shift in focus was motivated by the despair she started observing in her students about a decade ago. Focusing on the role of emotions in climate justice advocacy, Ray now teaches, researches, writes, and facilitates workshops and mindfulness courses on the interplay of inner resilience and collective action. Her book on this topic, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (California, 2020), was written to serve as an existential toolkit for the climate generation. Training this focus on students' emotional engagement with climate justice, she turned her attention to considering how climate education can better meet students' distress and passions about climate injustice. This work has resulted in an international network of educators that crowdsourced an open-access database of "existential tools", and another co-edited volume, both called An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators (2024). She teaches and advises in the Environmental Studies BA Program and the Environment and Community Master's program.
Whew! This conversation is a lot and has it all; it is light and heavy, grounded in reality while being aspirational, flirting with optimism while confronting and anticipating pain and trauma, all surrounding the climate crisis.
Let us know what you think of these ideas and read more about Sarah's books here.
The Essential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators can be purchased here.
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety can be purchased here.
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Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree! Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and higher education as a personal and public good.
This week's episode features a conversation with Dr. Alex Moulton, who is an Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Hunter College. Alex is our first geographer on the show, which is exciting! He earned his PhD in Geography from Clark University, with an MS in Geography from East Carolina University and a BSc in Geography and Geology from the University of the West Indies, Mona. His research examines Black geographical epistemologies and history, ecological justice, community resource governance, landscape legacies of colonization, and political ecology of environmental change. Working at the intersection of critical social science, the environmental humanities, and physical geography, his research draws on a range of methodologies and epistemologies.
The show focuses on Alex's experience in academia as a student and now a professor, his specific areas of research within geography and how he understands histories and place through the lens of his work. This is a really interesting conversation, where specificity is a real strength.
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