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Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews
by Stacks on Stacks
Stacks on Stacks is the weekly radio broadcast from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. The show airs on Tuesdays from 2:30pm until 4pm on 90.7 FM WUVT. Hosts Kira Dietz and Joe Forte play an eclectic mix of music, and invite guests from the Libraries and across the Virginia Tech community to talk about some of the work (and the play), in which they are involved. This is a collection of those conversations.
Episodes
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Carlos Evia (Air Date: 02/15/2023)
In this episode of Stacks on Stacks, we sit down with Carlos Evia to talk about his position as the director of the new Academy of Transdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the…
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Ren Harman (Air Date: 02/08/2023)
In this episode of Stacks on Stacks, we sit down with Ren Harman to talk about the new Center for Oral History at Virginia Tech. Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7…
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Eric Glenn (Air Date: 01/24/2023)
For the first episode of our fifth season, Joe and Kira sit down with Eric Glenn to discuss his new role as the Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Organizational Development in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that...
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Aaron McCollough (Air Date: 11/01/2022)
This week, Stacks on Stacks is joined by the Product Director of repositories at Ubiquity Press, Aaron McCollough. Ubiquity Press is an open-access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and institutional repositories with a mission to make open-access publishing more accessible.…
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Sylvester Johnson (Air Date: 10/11/2022)
Stacks on Stacks welcomes Dr. Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech's Center for Humanities director. In this week's episode, Sylvester fills us in on the 4-week pilot humanities course that he taught to 10 prison inmates at the River North Correctional Center. This pilot course was not only a great...
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Jenaya Amore (Air Date: 09/20/2022)
In this episode of Stacks on Stacks we sit down with Jenaya Amore, a master's student in Sociology at Virginia Tech. Jenaya is the new co-host on season 2 of the Standpoints podcast, where she and co-host Andrea Baldwin explore Black feminist experiences within a scholarly, pedagogical, and...
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Jason Higgins (Air Date: 08/30/2022)
In this week's episode, we welcome back a returning Stacks on Stacks guest, Dr. Jason Higgins, a postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Tech's Center for Humanities, specializing in Digital Humanities and Oral History. Jason discusses how he applies methodology around oral history narration, as well as...
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Rishi Jaitly (Air Date: 08/23/2022)
For the first episode of our fourth season, Joe Forte and guest-host Kelsey Hammer sit down with Rishi Jaitly to discuss his new position at Virginia Tech as a professor of practice and leader of the Digital Transformation and Scientific Collaboration area in the Academy of Transdisciplinary...
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Nitra Eastby (Air Date: 04/12/2022)
Nitra Eastby is the Collections Strategist and Assessment Coordinator for Virginia Tech's University Library. In this episode, hosts Joe and Kira sit down with Nitra to discuss the ins and outs of her new role since joining the Collections team at the start of COVID-19. Stacks on Stacks: The...
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The History Lab (Air Date: 04/05/2022)
Joe and Kira welcome the History Lab professors, Paul Quigley, David Hicks, Todd Ogle, and Thomas Tucker onto the show to discuss how their collaborative project work was turned into a trans-disciplinary class at Virginia Tech. The History Lab course brings together teachers and students from...
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Kirsten Dean (Air Date: 03/22/22)
Kirsten Dean is the High Impact Practices Librarian in Teaching and Learning Engagement with the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and is also the curator of the Popular Reading Collection in Newman Library. In this episode, Joe and Kira sat down with Kirsten to discuss the priorities that...
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Kelsey Hammer (Air Date: 03/01/22)
Kelsey Hammer is the Digital Literacy and Multimedia Production Librarian at Virginia Tech. Joe and Kira sit down with Kelsey to discuss a multitude of topics, including how we engage with others online, the production of different creative projects, and snacks. Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews…
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Henry Yampolsky (Air Date: 02/22/22)
In the first episode of the third season, Joe and Kira welcome Henry Yampolsky, the Assistant Director for Equity, Outreach, and Conflict Resolution in the Office for Equity and Accessibility at Virginia Tech. The three of them discuss Henry's efforts to educate the Virginia Tech community on...
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Max Ofsa (Air Date: 12/14/21)
Max Ofsa is the manager of Prototyping and 3D Scanning Studio at Virginia Tech. Max sits down with Kira and Joe to discuss the process of printing, prototyping, and the exciting ins and outs of the studio design space. Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that…
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Julie Griffin (Air Date: 11/09/2021)
Julie Griffin is a Senior Associate Dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and is responsible for Collections and Scholarly Communications. Julie joined Kira and Joe to talk about the importance of providing access to information, data, and resources and providing information services…
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VT Ombuds Officers: Bryan Hanson & Reese Ramos (Air Date: 11/02/2021)
Bryan Hanson and Reese Ramos joined Kira and Joe to talk about their respective roles as ombuds officers for the university and the graduate school. Bryan Hanson is the graduate student Ombudsperson at Virginia Tech. Formed in 2007, his office supports graduate students in negotiating conflict…
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Kendall Giles (Air Date: 10/19/2021)
Dr. Kendall Giles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His teaching and research interests include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and algorithms, computer systems, the history of computing and the...
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Andrea Baldwin and the Posture Portraits (Air Date: 10/12/2021)
Dr. Andrea Baldwin, Heidi Henderson, and James Lee joined Kira and Joe to talk about the Posture Portrait project, an interdisciplinary project which examines how bodies have historically been created/made through scientific interventions and surveillance, while simultaneously engaging with the...
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Anna Zeide (Air Date: 10/05/2021)
Dr. Anna Zeide is an Associate Professor in History at Virginia Tech and the founding director of a new Food Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Anna joined Kira and Joe to talk about the new program (in which Kira has also been a collaborator) and about her work.…
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Honora Ankong and Bessie Flores Zaldívar (Air Date: 09/28/2021)
Honora Ankong and Bessie Flores Zaldívar are MFA candidates at Virginia Tech and hosts of the MFAngle podcast. They joined Kira and Joe in the studio to discuss new episodes, their own writing, and the future of the podcast. MFAngle is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the...
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Jason Higgins (Air Date: 9/21/2021)
Jason Higgins is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Oral History for the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. Jason sat with Kira and Joe to talk about his work recording and studying oral history narratives given by military veterans, and about how this...
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Sylvester Johnson (Air Date: 09/14/2021)
Sylvester Johnson is the director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities. He is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of technology, race, religion, and national security. He is also assistant vice provost for the humanities at Virginia Tech and executive…
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Bill Ingram (Air Date: 09/07/2021)
Bill Ingram is the Assistant Dean and Director of Information Technologies in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. He spoke with Kira and Joe about the importance of IT in the development of academic libraries, and about the way in which technological developments have effect workflows and...
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Lee Vinsel (Air Date: 08/31/2021)
Lee Vinsel is an Associate Professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. He is the Author of The Innovation Delusion (2020, with Andrew L. Russel) and Moving Violations (2019). Lee joins Kira and Joe in the studio to preview Peoples & Things, his new podcast...
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Tyler Walters (Air Date: 08/24/2021)
Tyler Walters is the Dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. In an attempt to open a window onto the arc of evolution for academic libraries in general, and the strategic vision for Virginia Tech Libraries specifically, Kira and Joe sat down to talk with the big boss himself. The...
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Virtual Sculpture Garden (Air Date: 04/20/2021)
Description: Trevor Finney and Jonathan Bradley join Kira and Joe to talk about their work on the Virtual Sculpture Garden, a virtual reality experience, in which visitors may explore 3D art and and share their own. Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired...
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Ren Harman (Air Date: 04/13/2021)
Ren Harman, who has been recording oral history narratives for VT Stories over the last several years, has recently joined the University Libraries team as an Oral History Projects Archivist. Kira and Joe spoke with him in April of 2021 about his work and what this move may mean for the Libraries...
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Jessica Brabble (Air Date: 03/16/2021)
Jessica Brabble was a Masters Candidate in the Department of History when she spoke with Kira and Joe in the spring of 2021. She was one of the leading planners of the annual conference hosted at Virginia Tech by the History Graduate Student Association, The Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives…
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Patrick Tomlin (Air Date: 03/09/2021)
Patrick Tomlin is the Assistant Dean and Director of Learning Environments in the Libraries. Kira and Joe spoke with him in the spring of 2021, following his promotion several months earlier to the level of Assistant Dean. The conversation was the second in a planned series engaging strategic...
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Chesapeake DH Consortium (Air Date: 03/02/2021)
Corinne Guimont (Digital Scholarship Coordinator in the VT Libraries) and Alex Kinnaman (Digital Preservation Coordinator in the VT Libraries) visited the virtual recording studio in March of 2021 to talk about the recently completed annual conference for the Chesapeake Digital Humanities...
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Eli Jamison (Air Date: 02/23/2021)
Dr. Eli Jamison is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Management Department of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. She dropped by the virtual studio to tell Kira and Joe about her course on the economics and cultural aesthetics of the comic book industry. Stacks on Stacks…
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Andi Ogier (Air Date: 02/16/2021)
Andi Ogier is the Assistant Dean and Director of Data Services in the Libraries. Kira and Joe spoke with her in early 2021, following her promotion several months earlier to the level of Assistant Dean. The conversation was the first in a planned series engaging strategic organization among...
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Anthony Wright de Hernandez (Air Date: 02/09/2021)
Anthony Wright de Hernandez is the Community Archivist with Special Collections and University Archives in the Virginia Tech Libraries. He also hosts a program on the Libraries’ twitch channel, entitled Archival Adventures. Anthony spoke with Kira and Joe early spring semester of 2021.
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The Role of Play (Air Date: 12/08/2020)
In 2020, the University Libraries launched its Twitch channel to share live-streamed original programming produced in the University Libraries studios network. Among the inaugural programs, The Role of Play stood out for its unique celebration of table-top role playing games and classic…
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Scott Fralin (Air Date: 11/03/2020)
In November 2020, Kira and Joe welcomed Exhibit Curator & Learning Environments Librarian Scott Fralin into the virtual studio to talk about how limited operations during Covid-19 have presented the opportunity to explore designing and building Libraries exhibits entirely within virtual spaces....
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Rhonda Morgan (Air Date: 10/13/2020)
Rhonda Morgan is the Executive Director of the Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation. Like everyone else, the BM&CF had to close its physical spaces to the public in March of 2020. And like everyone else, they had to figure out a way to keep going. Rhonda joined Kira and Joe in the fall of 2020...
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Nina Ha (Air Date: 10/13/2020)
Nina Ha is the Director of the Asian Cultural Engagement Center at Virginia Tech. She joined Kira and Joe in the fall of 2020 to speak about how the center was adapting to Covid-19 shutdown and limited operations, as well as some of the unique challenges facing her community. Dr. Ha was scheduled...
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Stacks on Stacks is the weekly radio broadcast from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. The show airs on Tuesdays from 2:30pm until 4pm on 90.7 FM WUVT. Hosts Kira Dietz and Joe Forte play an eclectic mix of music, and invite guests from the Libraries and across the Virginia Tech community to talk about some of the work (and the play), in which they are involved. This is a collection of those conversations.
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