Podcasts extend the classroom walls

Through podcasts, departments across the College of Arts and Sciences are opening their research and scholarship to the public — for free. By producing media grounded in current events, looking toward the future while being mindful of the past, these departments transport an Ohio State education beyond campus to communities, classrooms and mobile devices around the world. 

VOICES OF EXCELLENCE

VOICES OF EXCELLENCE

The college recently launched a new podcast highlighting the research of its faculty and staff: Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted by David Staley, associate professor of history. “Voices” will take listeners into the research labs, classrooms and studios of Ohio State researchers, from the laser hum of Department of Energy Award winner Hannah Shafaat’s lab to the quiet solitude of Frederick Aldama’s writing space.

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OUR PODCASTS

A Story of Us


Anthropology graduate students launched A Story of Us to identify who anthropologists are, what they study and how they perform their research. They also seek to explain why anthropology is relevant to understanding diversity, our origins, human variation and behavior.

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Ask a Spaceman!


Astrophysicist Paul Sutter’s Ask a Spaceman! podcast answers stellar questions in its biweekly episodes, which bring the mysteries of space down to Earth for nonscience kids (and adults).

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Voices of Excellence


“Voices” takes listeners into the research labs, classrooms, and studios of Ohio State researchers, from the laser hum of Department of Energy Award winner Hannah Shafaat’s lab to the quiet solitude of Frederick Aldama’s writing space.

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective


Every month, more than 65,000 people from every continent connect with the Department of History’s Origins, an online magazine of podcasts, articles, essays, book reviews and more that look at current events from a historical perspective.

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¡Dímelo, Columbus!


Latino involvement in Columbus, Ohio changes the community. This project highlights the Latino experience in Columbus, looking to the past, present, and future.

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Human Rights in Transit


Human Rights in Transit is a podcast hosted by a collaborative network of faculty and graduate students at Ohio State University invested in thinking critically about human rights, the human, and the environment. 

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The Global Mobility Project


The Global Mobility Project at Ohio State integrates the insights of the arts, humanities, and social sciences to facilitate both a conversation and an investigation of how local culture and individual decision-making inform and reflect the complex global forces behind mobility. 

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Current Events in Historical Perspective

Every month, more than 65,000 people from every continent connect with the Department of History’s Origins, an online magazine of podcasts, articles, essays, book reviews and more that look at current events from a historical perspective.

Nick Breyfogle, associate professor of history, launched Origins nearly a decade ago with Steven Conn, who now teaches at Miami University in Ohio. The two universities jointly produce the monthly materials, which include a long-form article, written by a professor or graduate student, that examines a current issue. 

Past compositions have included the “Dakota Access Pipeline,” “America and Free Trade,” “Media and Politics in the Age of Trump,” “Immigrants in Europe” and “Understanding Boko Haram.”

The magazine also includes podcasts called “History Talk,” which can be streamed or downloaded from iTunes or accessed on NPR’s website. 

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"Historians offer a special perspective that brings knowledge and insight from the past to help us understand our world today. History is a way to make sense of the real issues that are happening now.” -Nick Breyfogle, associate professor of history

Ask a Spaceman!

Ask a Spaceman!

Want to know what the universe is made of? How to describe astronomy to the blind? How the sun gets spots?

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter’s Ask a Spaceman! podcast answers all of these stellar questions and more in its biweekly episodes, which bring the mysteries of space down to Earth for nonscience kids (and adults).

“Podcasts give an amazing venue to dig into topics without having to break for commercials or fit into a predetermined time slot,” said Sutter, cosmological research and community outreach coordinator for Ohio State’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) and chief science o cer for COSI in downtown Columbus.

“When someone asks me a question about how the universe works, I want to give them the answer that they deserve and the time needed for them to understand it,” said Sutter. 

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A Story of Us

A Story of Us

A Story of Us

“A Story of Us not only covers interesting and relevant topics,” said graduate student Frances Sutton, “but allows us to share our field with anyone who has ever asked, ‘What do you do with a degree in anthropology?’”

Sutton and fellow anthropology graduate student Mackie O’Hara launched A Story of Us podcast last fall. Sutton, O’Hara and a team of graduate students tackle timely themes, drawing on the four subfields of anthropology at Ohio State: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology and linguistics.

Season 1 began in September 2016. The twice-a-month podcast explored migration, past and present, from an anthropological point of view. Each episode featured conversations with graduate students and faculty in the department, who oered their own insights and analyses.

Season 2, which runs through the spring, explores childhood mortality, growth and development, motherhood, pathologies and childhood in the archaeological record. 

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