Humanities Now is the official podcast of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech. We feature conversations with members of the humanities community at Texas Tech University. With every episode, these varied voices help us realize the Center’s mission: asking out loud, “What does it mean to be human?” and demonstrating how can we answer that question from so many different perspectives.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHumanities Now is the official podcast of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech. We feature conversations with members of the humanities community at Texas Tech University.
Recent episodes include "West Texas on Film: A Conversation with Dr. Daryl Meador" (9 July 2025, 52 minutes), "Celebrating Indigenous Resilience" (14 March 2025, 33 minutes), and "On Shakespeare, Monkeys, and the Divine: A Conversation with Heather Warren-Crow and T.J. Geiger II" (1 November 2024, 40 minutes).
Humanities Now publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 23 episodes.
Booking probability for Humanities Now is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Humanities Now requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Humanities Now's contact route on record: public web form.
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Humanities Now is an education podcast with 23 episodes published.
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Episode #2
<p>On this episode, the Humanities Center's 2024-2025 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, film scholar Dr. Daryl Meador, sits down with Michael Borshuk to speak about her research on West Texas in American cinema...
Episode #1
<p>On this episode, we’re exploring the Humanities Center’s year-long programming theme, “Celebrating Indigenous Resilience: Commemorating the Red River War and Honoring the Vibrancy of Native American History and...
Episode #4
<p>Could a gaggle of monkeys randomly typing produce a literary classic? Could they by chance produce the complete works of Shakespeare, as many have speculated in an ongoing thought experiment for over a century...
Episode #3
<p>In this episode, Michael Borshuk looks back on our February art exhibition, Jerry Hunt: Transmissions from the Pleroma, which the Humanities Center hosted in collaboration with Brooklyn's Blank Forms and the TTU...
Episode #2
<p>On this episode, we continue our Value/Values theme by thinking about the value of confronting works of art that challenge our values. Michael Borshuk speaks with Rob Weiner from Texas Tech libraries about...
Episode #1
<p>On the first episode of our new season, Michael Borshuk introduces our programming theme for 2023-2024, Value/Values. Speaking about recent volatile debates in American universities about fiscal responsibility and...
Episode #4
<p>On this episode, Michael Borshuk speaks with Dr. Bill Poirier, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Joint Professor of Physics, and Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Awardee at Texas Tech. In a very...
Episode #3
<p>As we continue the Humanities Center's year-long Health theme we move to a conversation about art and the body with Texas Tech School of Art faculty member Ghi Fremaux and her collaborative partner Lando Valdez. As...
Episode #2
<p>On this episode, a special feature to continue our ongoing conversation about health: a conversation between one of the members of our Health programming theme this year, TTU History professor Dr. Paul Bjerk, and Dr...
Episode #1
<p>As we return from hiatus to begin a new season, we introduce the Humanities Center's programming theme for 2022-2023: "Health." This year, we will imagine multiple ways of being healthy, and critique definitions of...
Episode #5
<p>On our season finale, we wish a happy fortieth anniversary to Texas Tech's Women's and Gender Studies program by talking at length with two WGS-affiliated faculty members about their recent books. Dr. Elissa...
Episode #4
<p>On this first episode back from winter break, we sit down with Dr. Bryan K. Hotchkins, a faculty member in TTU's College of Education, to hear about his new book My Black is Exhausted: Forever in Pursuit of a...
Episode #3
<p>For our final fall episode before our winter break hiatus, Michael Borshuk sits down with Dr. Sebastian Ramirez, the Humanities Center's 2021-2022 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities. Sebastian speaks with us...
Episode #2
<p>On this episode, we think about the relationship between art, racism, and social justice as we continue to engage our year-long Anti-Racism theme. We speak with Dra. Leslie C. Sotomayor II, Visiting Assistant...
Episode #1
<p>On this first episode of season two, Michael Borshuk sits down with members of the programming team for the Center's scholarly theme for 2021-2022, Anti-Racism. We hear from Dr. Nadia Flores-Yeffal, dr. aretha...
Episode #8
<p>On this final episode of our first season, we conclude our ongoing discussion with this year's Alumni College Fellows by considering the new perspectives their research offers on the texture of everyday life. We hear...
Episode #7
<p>On this episode, we continue visiting with our 2020-2021 Alumni College Fellows as they lead us in conversation on the relationship between who we are, how much freedom we possess, and the cultures we navigate in...
Episode #6
<p>On this episode, we reflect on creativity in its worldly context as we continue to visit with the Humanities Center’s most recent cohort of Alumni College fellows. Our topic is New Perspectives on Art, Aesthetics...
Episode #5
<p>As we come back from winter break, we begin a new sequence of episodes featuring the research of our 2020-2021 Alumni College Fellows. Between now and May, we have arranged our twelve scholars into four audio panels...
Episode #4
<p>To wrap up our first half-season before we take a pause for winter break, we discuss the Humanities Center's focus on interdisciplinary collaboration by introducing two of our funded working groups. Belinda Kleinhans...
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