Episode 23: Dr. Kate Antonova on Higher Ed Admin and the Humanities

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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 the fight for its survival. Today's guest is Dr. Kate Antonova, a historian of Russia and Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. She talks about history on her YouTube channel called History in Practice and is the author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia as well as various articles and op-eds. She earned her BA at the University of Chicago and PhD at Columbia University. She has lived and worked in Norway, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Ivanovo, Russia and Connecticut. One of the many reasons Kate was invited on the show was to discuss a recent Twitter thread that she wrote about the role of some university and college administrations in harming the humanities. This is a lively conversation with critiques of current dynamics and ideas for strengthening the liberal arts. Follow Kate on Twitter @kpanyc Follow the show on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠@JobLiberalArts⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ and on Instagram @LiberalArtsJobPod ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson