Hosted by Ramzi Fawaz · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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It's time the university came to you. Nerd from the Future introduces you to the best ideas and insights from the nation's leading humanities professors. In our first season we’ll tackle the biggest questions about higher education today: Is there such a thing as liberal bias on university campuses? Does humanities education matter anymore? What exactly is DEI and why are people so mad about it? Is there any point in getting a college degree these days? Like any great professor, we’ll try to make sense of all these issues with enthusiasm, playfulness, honesty, and lots and lots of nerdiness.
Ramzi Fawaz hosts Nerd from the Future, a society show with 14 episodes published.
On September 25, 2025, I had the incredible privilege of joining my colleague Ramsey McGlazer at UC Berkeley, my alma mater, for a public conversation about my recent research and writing in the psychedelic humanities. Y
After a season of tackling some of the biggest hot button issues relating to higher education today, I felt it was time to share with you how I became the thinker, teacher, and public intellectual you’ve been listening t
In this very special episode, I rejoin my bestie Cindy Cheng alongside our esteemed colleague Armando Ibarra, to talk about our own slice of the world, the University of Wisconsin, Madison (or the UW as it’s often affect
In this episode, I join my fellow queer studies friends and colleagues Robert McRuer and Anthony Michael D’Agostino to make a case for why teaching sex matters more than ever to the intellectual and interpersonal growth
In this week's Knowledge Drop, I reunite with my superhero teammate and bestie Anthony Michael D'Agostino to talk about what it means to get a PhD in the humanities. A PhD or Doctor of Philosophy is a terminal degree or
Today, I’ve brought together two of the most accomplished teachers I know to talk about the unique opportunities and challenges of teaching Gen Z, that awesomely diverse group of sixteen to twenty-eight year olds who are
As economies tumble, as the Earth burns, and as governments implode all around us, it's become easier and easier to dismiss higher education as elitist, irrelevant, and out of touch with reality, that place where ordinar
In this bonus episode, I join my life-long pal and fellow professor Anthony Michael D'Agostino in a hilarious, honest, and passionate conversation about what it's like to teach college students these days. We talk about
One of the most enduring myths about the modern universityis that humanities education—understood broadly as the study of human history, language, and culture—no longer offers a reliable path to employment or financial s
This is the first of a two-part Knowledge Drop about the role that university professors play as genuine mentors and guides for generations of youth, rather than ideologues who force their values on their students. We'll
Public debates over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at university campuses has tended to focus on the question of fairness: is it fair for some groups of people to have unique advantages in the univers
In our first bite size bonus episode, Nerd from the Future explains the concept of academic tenure. Tenure refers to an employment protection offered by many colleges and universities that is meant to uphold professors'
In our first episode, I talk with professors Melani McAlister and Matt Brim about the perceived liberal bias of university campuses and the faculty who teach there. The debate over liberal bias at America’s most prominen
It's time the university came to you. I’m Ramzi Fawaz, a nerdy English professor with nearly twenty years of teaching experience, and I’m here to reignite your passion for thekinds of ideas, conversations, and perspectiv
Dr Melani McAlister
professor of American Studies and International Affairs · George Washington University
1 appearance on this show
Ramzi Fawaz
icon in queer theory, author of Queer Forms, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination · University of Wisconsin, Madison
1 appearance on this show
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