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Humanities on the High Plains is a podcast focusing on humanities scholarship, with a special emphasis on topics relevant to the Texas Panhandle and the High Plains. Hosted by Ryan M. Brooks, Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University, each episode features in-depth conversations with scholars exploring new ideas and methods in disciplines like literature, film studies, and cultural history.
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Humanities on the High Plains is hosted by Ryan M. Brooks. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Ep. 20 The Conservative Frontier" (22 April 2026, 55 minutes), "The Bomb Cloud" (7 May 2025, 55 minutes), and "For the Record" (6 May 2024, 55 minutes).
Humanities on the High Plains publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 53 minutes across 20 episodes.
Booking probability for Humanities on the High Plains is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Humanities on the High Plains requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Humanities on the High Plains's contact route on record: verified email.
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Ryan M. Brooks hosts Humanities on the High Plains, an arts podcast with 20 episodes published.
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Episode #20
In 1980, when he was a high-school freshman in Canyon, Texas, Jeff Roche opened up his school newspaper and saw he was one of only seven students out of about 500 who voted for Carter rather than Reagan in that year's...
Episode #19
<p >Our guest this episode is Tyler Mills, an instructor at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in – among many other publications – The New Yorker, The Guardian...
Episode #18
<p >In March 2023, The Canadian Record — the weekly newspaper of rural Canadian, TX, population 2,300 — suspended publication after 130 years in print. Ryan's guests this episode are Laurie Ezzell Brown, longtime editor...
Episode #17
<p>Before he was a MacArthur Genius or a Booker Prize-winner, George Saunders was a songwriter, an oil-field worker, and a slaughterhouse "knuckle-puller," not to mention an MA student at what was then West Texas State...
Episode #16
<p >The history of public media is the history of fidelity to an idea: access to public education is "not only a service but a right." On this episode we're joined by Dr. Josh Shepperd, Assistant Professor of Media...
Episode #15
<p >Ryan's guests this episode are Dr. Timothy M. Foster, former WT prof and currently a Spanish teacher in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Dr. John Beusterien, Professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Tim and...
Episode #14
<p>Our guest this episode is WT history professor Dr. Chelsea Ball, author of "'I Oppose the ERA, but I Do Approve of Equal Rights for Women': Gender and Politics in the Aftermath of the Equal Rights Amendment Campaign...
Episode #13
<p >Ryan's guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Schleck, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Schleck joins us to discuss her book, Dirty Knowledge: Academic...
Episode #12
<p >In this episode, Ryan speaks with his WT colleague Dr. Timothy Paul Bowman, historian and author of You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservativism, published in...
Episode #11
On this episode, Ryan is joined by two of his WT colleagues — Dr. Nathan Howell, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Erik Crosman, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences — and Dr. Darryl...
Episode #10
<p>In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Joel Zapata to discuss his essay "The South-by-Southwest Borderlands' Chicana/o Uprising: the Brown Berets, Black and Brown Alliances, and the Fight against Police Brutality in...
Episode #9
<p>On this episode, Ryan is joined by Mark. A. Lause, Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and author of The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West (Verso, 2017)...
Episode #8
<p>Ryan sits down with two of his WT colleagues, Dr. Amy Von Lintel, Professor of Art History, and Dr. Bonnie Roos, Professor of English, who join him to discuss their new book, Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract...
Episode #7
<p>In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Eugenio Di Stefano, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Di Stefano is the author of The Vanishing Frame: Latin...
Episode #6
<p>How can educators cultivate self-cultivation in their students? How can they maintain an intimate connection between their scholarly research, what they teach, and how they teach? How can they encourage students to...
Episode #5
<p>In 2019, after a nearly 40-year absence, affiliated minor-league baseball returned to Amarillo with the debut of the Sod Poodles, a Class AA Padres affiliate who won the Texas League title and drew over 400,000 fans...
Episode #4
<p>For this episode, Ryan is joined by Justin A. Joyce, Research Director for President Dwight McBride at the New School in New York City, Managing Editor of the James Baldwin Review, and the author of Gunsligning...
Episode #3
<p>In this episode, Ryan is joined by four of his WT colleagues: Dr. Alex Hunt, Dr. Tim Bowman, Dr. Ashley Pinkham, and Dr. Christopher Macaulay. Together we discuss Sarah Smarsh's bestselling 2018 book Heartland: A...
Episode #2
<p >Ryan's guests for this episode are Heather J. Allen, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi, and Andrew R. Reynolds, Professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University. Allen and Reynolds are...
Episode #1
<p >In this episode, Ryan speaks with Christopher R. Martin, Professor of Communication Studies and Digital Journalism at the University of Northern Iowa. Martin is the author of No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream...
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