Kathleen Collins

Jan 20, 2025 | indoorvoicespodcast.com | Kathleen Collins

The popularity of the True crime genre, including books, podcasts, TV shows, and documentaries, has seen a resurgence over the past decade. It’s certainly had an effect on our media consumption, but it has other consequences, too.

Jan 6, 2025 | indoorvoicespodcast.com | Kathleen Collins

Mary Frances Phillips, a faculty member in the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College from 2012-2024, has written the first biography of educator, poet, activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther Party veteran Ericka Huggins. The book, Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, is just out from NYU Press. In a moving and inspiring conversation, Dr. Phillips talks in this episode with her Lehman College colleague Olivia Moy.

Nov 12, 2024 | indoorvoicespodcast.com | Kathleen Collins

Adam Berlin is a faculty member in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He also co-edits, with his colleague Jeffrey Heiman, J Journal: New Writing on Justice. They have visited the podcast before to talk about the journal and to have conversations with contributors Estha Weiner and George Guida. In this episode, I talked with Adam about his own writing and his recently published collection, All Around They’re Taking Down the Lights.

Oct 21, 2024 | indoorvoicespodcast.com | Kathleen Collins

Laura Katz Olson is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. She is also an alumna of City College and was a student during the iconic 1960s’ period of the civil rights and antiwar movements. Her novel, Wrinkled Rebels (Vine Leaves Press, 2024) is a vivid representation of the lives of six City College student activists during that time and reunites with them decades later.

Sep 24, 2024 | indoorvoicespodcast.com | Kathleen Collins

Rebecca Bratspies and Natalie Gomez-Velez have been colleagues for twenty years, both professors of law at CUNY School of Law. In this episode they talk about Professor Bratspies’ book, Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues and Heroes Behind New York’s Place Names (Arcadia Publishing 2023). Professor Bratspies was motivated to embark on this project while stuck in a traffic jam in the Bronx.