Pomona College Sagecast: Recent Episodes
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Introducing Sagecast, the podcast of Pomona College. Previously recorded in the studios of KSPC, Pomona’s FM radio station, and now recorded remotely, this podcast offers our extended community a chance to listen in on vibrant intellectual conversations with Pomona College faculty and students.
In Season 4 of our podcast, we talk to current and former Pomona College faculty members about how they came to study what they study, teach what they teach and love the field they love.
You can find a full list of our podcasts as well as their transcripts at pomonacollege.edu/sagecast
Oona Eisenstadt is a professor of Religious Studies specializing in Judaism at Pomona College. She discusses on Sagecast her research on the history of antisemitism and how it manifests in present day society. This episode was recorded in September 2023.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Travis Khachatoorian
Audio Engineer: Erica Tyron
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-OonaEisenstadt-120623.txt
Chinasa Okolo ’18 is a fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Center for Technology Innovation. She discusses on Sagecast her work towards creating a more equitable global landscape of artificial intelligence development, and AI governance issues arising in the wake of rapid technological advancement.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Travis Khachatoorian
Audio Engineer: Erica Tyron
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-ChinasaOkolo-112223.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/QkrU-QpJoBA
Dr. Michael Sequeira ’73 is the public health officer for San Bernardino County. He discusses on Sagecast his trailblazing career in emergency medicine, decision-making as a health leader during the COVID-19 pandemic and the deadly impacts of the growing fentanyl crisis.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Travis Khachatoorian
Audio Engineer: Erica Tyron
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-110823-MichaelSequeira.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/Yng2zNoOlWc
Mietek Boduszynski is an Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College. He discusses on Sagecast what he learned during his past year working at the Pentagon as a US policy advisor on the war in Ukraine.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Travis Khachatoorian
Audio Engineer: Erica Tyron
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Sagecast-1125-23-MietekBoduszynski.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/s4l9oqUpGtY
Leah Donnella ’13 is an editor for NPR’s Code Switch, a podcast focusing on difficult conversations about race. She discusses on Sagecast how her reporting around the country has shaped her perception of the role of journalists and how her Africana studies degree at Pomona College helped pave the way for her career in radio journalism.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Travis Khachatoorian
Audio Engineer: Erica Tyron
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Leah%20Donnella%20final1.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/q_mtvKl4kPI
Rose Portillo ’75 has built a career in theater, film and television for more than four decades. Her creativity has flourished as an actor, writer, director, educator at Pomona College and visual artist. She shares with the Sagecast audience how she has embraced her Latin identity along the way.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Patty Vest
Produced by: Kris Vargas
Editorial Assistant: Lorraine Harry '97
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Sagecast-11-28-22-RosePortillo.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/94-JOG1ULCk
Cryptocurrency keeps garnering headlines for all the wrong reasons. What exactly is crypto—how is it "mined" and what determines its value? Is crypto collapsing? Pierangelo De Pace, chair of the Department of Economics at Pomona, shares his research.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Patty Vest
Produced by: Kris Vargas
Transcript:https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Sagecast-11-15-22-PierangelDePace.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/b432LaQIlVU
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ellie Anderson discusses her research on the philosophy of selfhood, love and sexual ethics. She also explains her approach to “public philosophy” in social media channels such as TikTok, YouTube and her co-hosted podcast “Overthink.”
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Patty Vest
Produced by: Kris Vargas
Editorial Assistant: Lorraine Harry '97
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Sagecast-11-23-22-Ellie%20Anderson.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/_s-ToNhrJxM
In this episode of Sagecast, historian and long-time Pomona professor Gary Kates shares what sparked his interest in the European Enlightenment. As a scholar of the French Revolution, he also tells us what conditions are most likely to result in such historic upheavals.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Patty Vest
Produced by: Kris Vargas
Editorial Assistant: Lorraine Harry '97
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Sagecast-11-16-22-GaryKates.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/J3rGNPhw5KA
In this episode of Sagecast, art historian and assistant professor Rosalia Romero shares with us her passion for Latin American art and the art of the borderlands. Romero also talks about the role of murals in contemporary art and about her work as a curator for the upcoming Mexicali Biennial.
Hosted by: Marilyn Thomsen and Patty Vest
Produced by: Kris Vargas
Editorial Assistant: Lorraine Harry '97
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/Sagecast-11-2-22-RosaliaRomero.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/qzc800JV830
Ryan Engley, assistant professor of media studies and co-host of the Why Theory podcast joins us for the final episode of this Sagecast season.
Engley unpacks for us the intersection of psychoanalysis and media studies, where he focuses his research. He also chats about his love for television and seriality, as well as the importance discussing mental health in his courses.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-051921-RyanEngley.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/3JRkPAQt72I
Head Coach of the Milwaukee Bucks and 2-time NBA Coach of the Year (2015, 2019), Mike Budenholzer '92 joins us to talk about his journey from Division III basketball at Pomona-Pitzer to the NBA.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-MikeBudenholzer-051221.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/1HrqHDauNaQ
Interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker, Joanne Nucho discusses her research interests which include critical infrastructure studies, urban studies and environmental inequality—and what she calls “post-grid imaginaries.’ She is the author of the book Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services and Power.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-042721-JoanneNucho.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/8n1pUsFUOzo
In this episode, our guest Ken McLeod ’07, policy director for the League of American Bicyclists sheds light on working in Washington D.C. and advocating for bicycling and walking projects across the country. McLeod talks to us about how he hopes to work closely with the Biden Administration and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in creating safer and more equitable communities.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-041321-KenMcLeod.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/IbD9iPTbdho
This week, our guest is Politics Professor Sara Sadhwani, who studies the growing impact of Asian Americans in the American political scene, with a special focus on Indian American communities. In this conversation, Professor Sadhwani discusses, among other things, the role of “descriptive representation” in the electorate and the importance of Indian American voters in a number of swing states.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-033121-SaraSadhwani.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/ha4kbSMaj20
This week we’re talking with Adam Rogers ’92, senior correspondent at WIRED Magazine and author of two books, The New York Times nonfiction bestseller Proof: The Science of Booze and the soon-to-be-released Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made us Modern. Our conversation ranges from the origins of color perception in an ancient microbe to the difficulty of writing about science in a time of resurgent science-denial.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-031621-AdamRogers.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/EH_bArnwQkU
This week, our guest is Pomona College Professor of Politics Susan McWilliams Barndt, the author of An American Road Trip and American Political Thought and Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory. Our conversation ranges from America’s scrambled political vocabulary to the way distinctive American ideas about such things as freedom and equality are bound up in our national literature about road trips.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-SusanBarndt-030321.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/5zzxJBPM88g
This week, our guest is Pomona College Professor of Economics Gary Smith, who specializes in financial markets and debunking myths in statistical analysis. In this conversation, Professor Smith discusses, among other things, the real-world applications of economics that continue to fascinate him and his collaboration with alumnus Jay Cordes ’93 on several books about misuses of “big data,” including, most recently, The Phantom Pattern Problem.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-garysmith-112520.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/aCBNL_PRNdw
This week we’re talking with Aditya Sood ’97, president of the film production company Lord Miller Inc. As a producer, he’s best known for box-office hit movies like The Martian, Deadpool I and II and Murder on the Orient Express. Our conversation ranges from his early years in Seattle to the story behind the making of the hit movie, The Martian.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-adityasood-111820.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/IF3MUUCUQOU
This week, we welcome Visiting Professor of Anthropology Arlen Chase, who specializes in Mesoamerican archeology. Our conversation with Professor Chase ranges from the origins of his love of archeology in general and of Mayan culture in particular to his groundbreaking fieldwork in a site in Belize known as Caracol. He also discusses his trailblazing use of a technology known as LiDAR, which has transformed the field of archeology.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/arlen_chase_mixdown.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/08Y6JGsoVwY
This week our guest is Associate Professor of Economics Manisha Goel, who specializes in labor and development economics. Our conversation ranges from her early years in India to her research into the impact of the Indian caste system on business decisions in that country to the origins and impact of growing income inequality in both India and the United States.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/manisha_goel_mixdown.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/rzitpzFgCS4
This week’s discussion is with McArthur Grant-winning seismologist Brian Tucker ’67, who recently retired as founder and president of the nonprofit GeoHazards International.
In this conversation, Tucker looks back at his wandering educational path into the science of seismology and his long career dedicated to helping people in poor, earthquake-prone countries retrofit their schools and other buildings to prevent their catastrophic collapse in the event of a quake.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/brian_tucker_mixdown.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/KxDpWVPUZM8
This week, we’re joined by Professor of Psychological Science and Africana Studies Eric A. Hurley, whose research in cognitive development focuses on understanding and improving the social and educational outlook of African American and other minority children.
Our conversation with Professor Hurley explores the power of cultural values in shaping students’ educational experience and the importance of understanding those values in creating an educational environment in which they can thrive.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-erichurley102120.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/ffoBUfiBYd4
This week our guest is Mac Barnett ’04, the author of such beloved children’s books as Extra Yarn and The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse. His latest book, A Polar Bear in the Snow, is his 47th book.
In this episode, Barnett shares stories about his Pomona College mentor, the late Professor David Foster Wallace, and his exchanges with children who’ve reached out to him about his books. He also talks about his experiences as a writer of children’s books and his insights into the way children think and feel.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-macbarnett-101420.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/JUjfLifVZTk
This week, we’re talking with Pomona College Professor of Religious Studies Zhiru Ng, who specializes in Eastern religions. Our conversation with Professor Ng ranges from her childhood in Singapore and the importance—and burden—of filial piety in Chinese culture to the concept of emptiness, the stages of meditation and the power of Buddhist thought as a way of relating to the world.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-zhirung-100620.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/BrmkIFWRfr8
This week, we’re joined by award-winning investigative reporter Anjali Kamat ’00. In a conversation recorded in February, Kamat discusses, among other things, her career trajectory in journalism, her experience covering the Arab uprisings in Egypt and Libya for Al Jazeera, and the challenges and responsibilities facing journalists in today’s atmosphere of “fake news” accusations and real fake news.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-anjalikamat-093020.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/nUsymxSGXSA
This week, we welcome Professor of Politics Pierre Englebert, a leading expert in African politics, specializing in the nations of francophone West Africa. A native of Belgium, Englebert discusses, among other things, his education in Europe and America and the research that has taken him across the African continent, seeking to understand the various successes and failures of African statehood and the roots of many of the problems that have beset the continent in its brutal colonial past.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-pierreenglebert-092320.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/-FIE5JMf5MM
This week, we chat with volcanologist Robby Goldman ’15. Mentored at Pomona by Prof. Eric Grosfils, Goldman studies the physics of eruptions from Hawaii's volcanoes and how scientists communicate eruption risks to residents. This episode was recorded this past spring before the shutdown due to the pandemic.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-robbygoldman091620.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/jpAXKn2_mcU
This week, we welcome Associate Professor of History Pey-Yi Chu, a historian of Russia and the former Soviet Union, who discusses her research aimed at understanding the environment through the history of science and technology, with a special focus on the history of the frozen tundra known as permafrost.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-PeiYiChu.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/QEXAygTAdfo
This week, we welcome longtime NPR science correspondent Joe Palca ’74. Since joining NPR in 1992, Palca has covered a variety of science topics, from biomedical research to astronomy. He is currently focused on the eponymous series, “Joe's Big Idea.” In a discussion recorded last fall, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, he talks about, among other things, the challenges and responsibilities of explaining scientific research to the general public and the vital importance of scientific literacy in today’s world.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-joepalca-090220.txt
This week, we’re joined by internationally renowned biochemist Jennifer Doudna ’85, the co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that has had an unprecedented impact on the world of genetic research. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Doudna discusses, among other things, her discovery of science as a child in Hilo, Hawaii, her mentors at Pomona College, her work in the labs of two Nobel laureates, the collaborative work in her own lab at Berkeley that led to the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 and her leadership in developing ethical standards for the use of this powerful gene-editing tool.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-jenniferdoudna-082620.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/mxIpZycFU0c
This week, our guest is Professor of Mathematics Jo Hardin ’95, who specializes in statistics and bioinformatics, the use of statistical data to study the human genome. In this episode of Sagecast, Hardin discusses, among other things, her mentors at Pomona College, the role of data science in genetic research, her pride in being part of a very inclusive and diverse mathematics department and the vital importance of statistical literacy in the world today.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-johardin-081820.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/zxj7K8Yke5U
This week we’re joined byThe New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston ’78. An accomplished journalist, Preston is the author of more than 20 novels including the Special Agent Pendergast series along with co-author Lincoln Child.
Preston started his career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which had an incredible impact on his career going forward. He went on to write the novel Relic, which became The Relic, a monster-horror film released in 1997.
During his research for his novelThe Monster of Florence, he found himself a little more involved than a journalist normally likes to be. He tells us about how he was charged with crimes by an Italian prosecutor.
Preston also shares childhood stories about him and his brother Richard Preston ’76 and explains how telling gross stories at the dinner table became a competition, and eventually lucrative writing careers for him and his brother.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-dougpreston-081220.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/mGJboQskReQ
This week we're joined by Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, Sam Yamashita. A longtime Pomona College professor, Yamashita shares about his early childhood passion for baseball growing up in Hawaii.
A Confucian specialist with mastery of both classical Chinese and classical Japanese, Samuel Yamashita has written extensively about early modern and modern Japanese intellectual and cultural history, focusing most recently on Japan during World War II and Japanese and fusion cuisine.
In addition to his ongoing research in these areas, Yamashita is also writing a history of Japanese food from prehistory to the present and exploring Pacific Rim fusion cuisine as a transnational culinary phenomenon.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-samyamashita-080520.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/14CQDoWLHyo
In this episode, we’re joined by Lynda Obst ‘72, the renowned film producer of such groundbreaking films as The Fisher King, Sleepless in Seattle, Interstellar —among many more.
Several of her films and TV projects have also involved science. Contact. Interstellar. The recent NatGeo Channel miniseries of The Hot Zone.She shares what draws her to those projects and explains how her love for philosophy has shaped her career in film production.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-lyndaobst-072920.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/WCjmmE5uYxQ
Associate Professor of Politics Mietek Boduszynski joins Sagecast in this international relations episode. A former U.S. diplomat who held a variety of posts at U.S. Embassies in Albania, Kosovo, Japan, Egypt, Libya and Iraq, Boduszynski shares what it was like to witness the Arab Spring firsthand.Boduszynski also opens up about what sparked his interest in international relations in the first place, and how his real-world experience influences his academic work on and off the classroom.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-mietekboduszynski-072220.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/rMdwx32Xdbg
In this episode, we chat with Associate Professor of Neuroscience Elizabeth Glater, a scholar whose research explores genetics and behavior.
Glater gives us a glimpse of her research, which examines the ways the nervous system allows animals to generate behavioral responses to their environment. More specifically, Glater and her lab use the nematode C. elegans to investigate the genetic and neuronal basis of food choice behavior.
She also shares about her students, the classes she teaches and her experience of shifting to online teaching in the spring.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-elizabethglater-071520.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/7TIUEVPNUCY
In this podcast episode, we welcome science writer Virginia Morell ’71, the author of several books, most recently Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel.
Morell tells us about some of the amazing animals she’s met through her research, and shares her thoughts on why the notion of animals thinking and feeling has been so taboo among scientists for so long.
Morell’s second book, Blue Nile, is about the first uninterrupted descent of the Upper Nile from Ethiopia to Sudan, which she actually took part in. She explains how she get involved with that project and tells us about a few of her adventures.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-virginiamorrell-070820.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/rBUAW4CEeck
This week we’re joined by Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies Ousmane Traoré, whose research focuses on the history of imperialism and colonialism in Africa.
Originally from Senegal, Traoré shares the story of how he once flew in the Senegalese President’s airplane on his way to France for his undergraduate studies.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-ousmanetraore-070120.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/rTJr-EhJWaY
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Grammy Award-winner soprano Melissa Givens. An assistant professor of music at Pomona, Givens tells us about her original plans to study pre-med in college, how they changed, and what led her to pursue a professional and academic career in music.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-melissagivens-062320.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/OwSUnpv8jac
In this episode, we dive into the world of business startups with Shadiah Sigala ’06. The tech startup entrepreneur is the co-founder of Honeybook and most recently of Kinside.
Sigala, a first-generation college student, tells us what inspired her to start her own company and the many lessons she’s learned along the way.
Passionate about the topic of childcare, Sigala know devotes her time at Kinside to bridge the gaps between employers, working parents and caregivers.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-shadiahsigala-061620.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/GvL2y3fpkmo
In this episode, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Eleanor Birrell joins us to talk about her research interests in security and data privacy.
Birrell shares about her interest in design and development of systems for better managing sensitive data in the modern world and explains why the current system of notice and consent is inadequate to protecting our digital privacy.
Finally, Birrell comments on the technology used in contact tracing apps for COVID-19 and how tech companies are attempting to ensure the protection of privacy and security rights.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-eleanorbirrell-060920.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/e9L619NFZII
In his early years, Andrew Glazier ’97 had hopes of making a difference by running for office. After five years of working with local and state government, he decided to focus instead on working with nonprofits in industries that intersect with government.
In this episode, Glazier discusses why the 1992 L.A. Riots were a seminal moment in his life, and tells us about his journey to become the national president and CEO of Defy Ventures, a nonprofit that provides entrepreneurship, employment and character development training to currently and formerly incarcerated men and women.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-andrewglazier-060320.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/UErKj0reabw
Former journalist Bill Keller ’70 joins the podcast this week and shares his story on how he climbed the ladder at The New York Times from reporter all the way up to executive editor.
As a foreign correspondent, Keller earned a Pulitzer Prize for covering the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, and had the opportunity to interview Nelson Mandela as the Times’ bureau chief in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Keller is the founding editor of The Marshall Project, an experimental journalistic start-up, dedicated to covering issues related to U.S. criminal justice system.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-billkeller-052720.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/GNOMtNXabd4
Assistant Professor of Music Gibb Schreffler joins us for this faculty episode of Sagecast. A first-generation college graduate, Schreffler shares insight about his journey from his youth punk rock scene to academia.
As an ethnomusicologist, Schreffler focuses his research on historical work-songs of American maritime culture known as chanties, as well as the music and dance of South Asia’s Punjab region. He gives us demonstrations of a work song, and also plays the tumbi, a traditional Punjabi instrument.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-gibbschreffler-052020.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/68BLMGhk8qc
In this episode, we’re joined by alumna and Alexander Hamilton expert Joanne Freeman ’84, Professor of American History at Yale University.
A scholar of political conflict, Freeman shares how conflict often led to physical violence from the founding fathers onward. She focuses much of her research on Alexander Hamilton, one of the nation’s first victims of political violence.
A fan of Hamilton way before the musical made its debut, Freeman tellsus how many times she’s seen the musical, what she thinks of it and how she got Lin-Manuel Miranda to attend her birthday party.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-joannefreeman-051320.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/0SaitzC4Dso
In this episode, Professor of Mathematics Edray Goins takes us back to his childhood in South L.A. and shares how he became fascinated with science, first with physics and finally with mathematics.
As a young Black mathematician, Goins didn’t have academic role models, thus he now dedicates his time to train and mentor minorities in college who will be the next generations of scientists and mathematicians. Goins, who specializes in number theory and algebraic theory, looks forward to teaching future classes at Pomona on how mathematics and statistics can inform public policy in order to tackle big issues such as the COVID-19 crisis.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-edraygoins-050620.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/TArK5vgNY9g
In our first podcast episode featuring Pomona College alumni, we’re joined by The New York Times bestselling author Richard Preston ’76. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston is the only nondoctor to have received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Champion of Prevention Award.
In this episode Preston gives his insight on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic based on researching and writing about the devastating effects of the Ebola virus in his books The Hot Zone and Crisis in the Red Zone. He provides warnings about other emerging viruses we should be worried about, and shares advice on what could be done to fight these outbreaks.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-richardpreston-042920.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/AHtu3y5s-ps
This week we are joined by Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, Sara Masland. Sara Rose Masland is a clinical and personality psychologist. She studies individual differences in social cognition and emotion processes and their relevance for personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). She also studies treatment improvement and accessibility for people with these disorders, including the ways that mental health stigma may create barriers to care.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-saramasland-042220.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/X9v1tpB28I4
This week on the Sagecast we are joined by Professor of Physical Education and Men's and Women's Water Polo Coach, Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez is also an assistant coach for the USA Senior Men's Water Polo team. Rodriguez has been head coach of both the Pomona-Pitzer Men's Water Polo and Women's Water Polo programs for more than a decade. In that time, he has been at the helm for 10 conference titles, leading the men's program to SCIAC titles in 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2012 (co-champions), and the women's program to SCIAC titles in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-alexrodriguez-041420.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/XXIGitjNnN0
This week on the Sagecast we are joined by Professor of Chemistry Jane Liu. Liu studies the role of functional RNAs (such as catalytic and regulatory RNAs) in controlling the dynamic aspects of gene expression in response to a changing environment. She seeks to apply this knowledge to the development of novel tools for chemistry and biology. As a chemist and molecular biologist, Liu is driven to understand, at a molecular level, how regulatory RNAs function. Using genetic and biochemical approaches, she has developed models for what is necessary and sufficient for gene regulation by certain small RNAs in bacteria. Her research findings inspire her to question how broadly applicable these functional models are, and this has led her to search out new examples of regulatory RNAs through screens and selections. Of course, leads identified in these studies must be characterized, and upon further investigation, she finds herself once again searching for molecular understanding. As a teacher-scholar, Liu is particularly invested in involving undergraduate students in her research program such that they can experience first hand the rewards and challenges of independent and collaborative science research.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-janeliu-040820.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/yR1hSKDnQ44
We're joined this week by Char Miller, director of Environmental Analysis; W.M. Keck professor of Environmental Analysis and History and chair of Sociology. In our first episode since classes at Pomona College were moved on line, Miller talks about the anticipation of teaching online and the excitement of seeing his students again, even if virtually. Miller’s teaching and research reflect his fascination with all things environmental. Classes on U.S. environmental history, water in the U.S. West, and public lands management, like those on urbanization and the interplay between the natural and built landscapes, have deeply informed his writing—and his cross-disciplinary and cross-campus commitments to Pomona’s Environmental Analysis and History programs as well as to the 5C Environmental Analysis major.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-charmiller-040120.txt
We're joined this week by Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and coordinator of Cognitive Science here at Pomona College. Abrams, class of 1991, tells us about her experiences as a student at Pomona and how the college has changed through the years. As a professor, Abrams's research program investigates language and memory processes in younger and older adults, specifically (a) the processes involved in comprehending and producing words, and (b) linguistic, cognitive and non-cognitive factors that influence these processes. She is interested in the causes underlying real-world retrieval problems, including tip-of-the-tongue states, proper name recall, interference from taboo words, and spelling errors.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-liseabrams-032420.txt
Professor and Chair of Anthropology Dru Gladney joins us this week on the Sagecast. Growing up in the city of Pomona, one might not expect the long journey it took for Gladney to end up at Pomona College. Gladney talks his upbringing, his travels to China, and the start of his teaching career in Hawaii. Gladney specializes in the peoples, cultures and politics along the ancient and modern Silk Road—in particular, issues of globalization and transnationalism in China and its close neighbors. Over the last few years, he has engaged in a large comparative survey of nomadic families in Western China, bolstered by in-depth fieldwork with nomadic Kazakhs in the Altai Mountains bordering China and Mongolia.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-drugladney-031820.txt.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/GJQ2S2rYr4Y
This week on the Sagecast we are joined by Associate Professor of Physical Education and Women's Softball Coach JoAnne Ferguson. After playing Division II college softball, Ferguson didn't think she'd transition to coaching. But her road through graduate school led her to volunteer as a coach and set her on the path to Pomona. Ferguson also chats about balancing school and sports as a Division III student-athlete, as well as her fun new Plogging class.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Celesté Tovar '21
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-joanneferguson-031120.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/2ro66MUaduA
This week on the Sagecast we are joined by Assistant Professor of Economics Malte Dold. Raised in Germany by parents who were both teachers, Dold didn't discover his passion for teaching until grad school. Dold also talks about the classes he's currently teaching and how his experience in the German public education system differs from his time at Pomona.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Celesté Tovar '21
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-maltedold-03042020.txt
Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/ifP-5aNvyvk
On this week's Sagecast, Emeritus Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Monique Saigal-Escudero joins us to talk about her life story and journey at Pomona. Born in Paris, Saigal-Escudero tells her story of being a hidden Jewish child during World War II. She talks about her move to California at age 17, and how her journey took her to Pomona, where she taught French for more than four decades, earning the Wig Distinguished Professor award for excellence in teaching.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-moniquesaigalescudero-022620.txt
Assistant Professor of Politics Tom Le joins us to kick off Season 4 of the Pomona College Sagecast. His research areas include Japanese security policy, the U.S.-Japan alliance, war memory and reconciliation, militarism norms, military and security balance in East Asia and East Asia regionalism. Among his areas of expertise: constraints and restraints on Japanese militarism and Japan-South Korea relations. His current work includes examinations of the impact of population demographics and technology on security and antinuclear movements and the environment. In addition to his research, Le also talks to us about his first-generation college experience and why it's important to have mentors. Finally, he talks about Kobe Bryant's death and why the impact was felt by such a broad spectrum of people.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Editorial Assistant: Sophie Schnell '22
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-tomle-021920.txt
In Season 3’s final episode, Godis Jackson ’20 and Toran Langford ’21 take us behind the scenes of peer-to-peer mentoring at Pomona College. Jackson and Langford share about their own mentor-mentee relationship and their experience as mentors for FLI (First Generation and/or Low Income students) and OBSA (Office of Black Student Affairs.)
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-torangodis-112719.txt
As remote collaboration becomes more ubiquitous, Pomona College’s Assistant Professor of Computer Science Alexandra Papoutsaki and Grete Helena Kütt ’20, are studying how eye-tracking technology could enhance teamwork. In this week’s episode, Papoutsaki and Kütt share more about the path of their research project that took them to present their work in Glasgow, Scotland.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-alexandragrete-111919.txt
From learning how to cook pasta to studying the impact of climate change on birds, Pomona mentors teach many valuable lessons to their students. In this episode, Professor of Biology Nina Karnovsky and Conservation Research Fellow Charlotte Chang ’10 tell us about their paths as field biologists doing conservation research.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-ninacharlotte-111319.txt
In this week’s episode, Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Gilda Ochoa, along with Chicana/o Latina/o Studies major Rene Valenzuela '20, talk about the history of the department and how it's grown since its inception 50 years ago.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-gildarene-110619.txt
In this week’s episode, Director of College Writing and Assistant Professor of English Kara Wittman along with English major Ahana Ganguly ‘21, gives us insight into Pomona’s Writing Center. Currently, the Center offers writing and speaking partners for students and next year there are plans to add visual-learning partners. Wittman shares more about what prompted this expansion for the Center.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-writingcenter-103019.txt
In this episode Asya Shklyar, director of High Performance Computing, and Lindsey Tam '20 discuss what it took to get HPC off the ground and tell us about their upcoming app that will help anybody learn how to program.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-asyalindsey-102319.txt
Where can Pomona College students turn to when they need help with quantitative methods and concepts? In this episode, Travis Brown, director of the Quantitative Skills Center (QSC) and Pomona Scholar of Science Nicah Vhin Driza ’20 illustrate through their experiences how the QSC equips students with the resources and skills they need to be successful in the classroom.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-travisnicah-100619.txt
This week we are joined by David J. Baldwin Professor of Music and Choral Conductor, Donna M. Di Grazia, as well as recent grad, Jeremy Taylor '19. The two discuss the unexpected places music has taken them as well how the liberal arts environment has helped them both grow. The two also discuss mentorship as we continue our Season 3 focused on students, professors, coaches and staff who are working closely in the classroom, on the field and in the lab.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-jeremydonna-100919.txt
This week we are joined by Interim Athletic Director and Women's Soccer Coach, Jen Scanlon, as well as one of her senior captains, Megan Kuo. The two discuss their paths to Pomona as well as the success the Pomona-Pitzer Soccer team has seen this season. The two also discuss mentorship as we continue our Season 3 focused on students, professors, coaches and staff who are working closely in the classroom, on the field and in the lab.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-jenmegan-100219.txt
In Season 3 of the Pomona College Sagecast, we talk to students, professors, coaches and staff who are working closely in the classroom, on the field and in the lab. This week, we talk to Professor of Theatre and Dance Giovanni Ortega and Anais Gonzalez Nyberg '20 about how theatre has changed both of their lives.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-gioanais-092519.txt
The Pomona College Academy for Youth Success (PAYS) program has been a Pomona College staple for over 15 years. The summer program enrolls up to 90 local high school students (30 rising sophomores, 30 rising juniors, & 30 rising seniors) and seeks to support them in preparing for admission to selective and highly selective colleges and universities. We select a new class of 30 ninth graders (rising sophomores) every May. PAYS participants engage in a thought-provoking combination of faculty-led courses, activities, workshops, projects and field trips during the intensive 4-week, residential program as well as throughout the academic year.
On this episode, Danny Ta '22 and Ezequiel Estrada '20 join us to talk about their experiences as PAYS students and how it impacted their decision to come to Pomona College.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-pays-072419_0.txt
Rising Juniors Ian Poveda '21 and Pauline Bekkers '21 join us to talk about their experience doing research on campus through the SURP program.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-surps-071019.txt
Spencer Louie '19 and Lindsay Chu '21 join us to talk about the long standing Pomona College tradition of a cappella groups.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-acapella-062619.txt
Rising Sophomores Danny DeBare '22 and Sophie Schnell '22 join us to talk about their experiences with taking gap years before enrolling at Pomona College. A rising trend amongst high school graduates, Danny and Sophie talk about the benefits and challenges of taking a year off of school to work, volunteer, travel, or take part in some intensive experience between high school and college.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-gapyear-061219.txt
Veterans Jordan Petersen and Travis Werling share how their military service as a linguist and musician respectively shaped their lives and their experience as non-traditional students at Pomona.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-veterans-052919.txt
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology Nicole Weekes has always been interested in the brain and how we can experience similar things, yet react differently. In this episode, she shares how one eye-opening class in college shifted her plans away from becoming a psychotherapist and led her to career in academia.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-nicole-weekes-050119.txt
Grammy-nominated pianist and Professor of Music Genevieve Lee is a versatile performer who has been teaching at Pomona since 1994. In this episode, she traces back her beginnings in classical music and shares about her discovery of new music and instruments such as the toy piano.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-genevieve-lee042419.txt
The Los Angeles-based artist, Sandeep Mukherjee, draws from his background in the sciences and his roots in Pune, India, to inspire his technique, choice of materials and process. In this episode, the Guggenheim Fellowship recipient shares about his journey from engineering to art and reflects upon how his work and career have evolved.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-sandeep-mukherjee-041719.txt
A clinical psychologist and a researcher, Professor Guadalupe Bacio aims to understand the patterns and consequences of alcohol and drug use in immigrant adolescents. In this episode, she discusses her path into academia as a first-generation college student and her drive to address health disparities among ethnic minority youth.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-lupe-bacio-041019.txt
Who else but Professor of Theatre and Dance Anthony Shay can say their career was launched by a personal invitation from the Shah of Iran? The creator of more than 200 choreographies, Shay studies the music and dance of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In this episode, he discusses the political and cultural power of dance.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-tony-shay-040319.txt
As a mathematician, Associate Professor of Mathematics Gizem Karaali strives to bridge the perceived gap between math and the humanities. In this episode, she discusses her experience teaching provocative first-year seminars at Pomona and shares her thoughts about how math education could be improved.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-gizem-karaali-032719.txt
Growing up in a polluted neighborhood of Los Angeles, Assistant Professor of Environmental Analysis Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes was inspired to study the environmental determinants of health in urban areas. In this episode, he discusses his winding path to academia, environmental inequities in Brazil and the U.S. and how they impact the health of urban residents.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-guillermodouglassjaimes-032019.txt
What does Irish modernism have in common with pop music? Not much, according to English Professor Kevin Dettmar, except for his own fascination with both. In this episode of Sagecast, Dettmar discusses such questions as why rock ’n’ roll has been declared dead so many times over the years and how readers should approach James Joyce’s challenging masterpiece, Ulysses.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/dettmarpart1.txt
Professor of Japanese Lynne Miyake discusses her wide-ranging interests in Japanese literature and culture, spanning more than 1,000 years from the classical Tale of Genji to its modern translation into Manga, the graphic novels that have become ubiquitous in Japanese culture.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-lynn-miyake-030619.txt
Assistant Professor of Politics Erica Dobbs studies political involvement and access to social protections among immigrant communities. In this podcast, she discusses a range of timely topics, from the ways in which political representation and social protections are being redefined in a globalized world to the key role of Ireland in Britain’s ongoing Brexit crisis.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by: Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-erica-dobbs-022719.txt
As a native of Venezuela and a student of Mexican politics, Professor of History and Chicano and Latino Studies Miguel Tinker Salas brings both a wealth of personal experience and a depth of scholarly expertise to the political and social issues facing Latin America today, including such questions as: How did oil-rich Venezuela become an economic basket case, with inflation topping a million percent? And what should we expect from Mexico’s new political leadership?
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-miguel-tinker-salas-022019.txt
How does language shape our identity and our perception of others? Join us for a conversation with Linguistics Professor Nicole Holliday about this topic and others, including her own journey into the world of language, linguistic discrimination in our criminal justice system, the role of citizen linguists and the “code-switching” of former President Barack Obama.
Hosted by: Mark Wood and Patty Vest
Audio Engineering by: Erica Tyron/KSPC
Produced by Jeff Hing
Edited by: Jeremy Snyder '19
Transcript: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/sagecast-nicole-holiday-021219.txt