On making our academic writing a little more reader friendly.

References mentioned this episode:

• Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2025. Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers. Princeton University Press.
• Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2021. The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors. Princeton University Press.
• LauraPortwoodStacer.com
• Manuscript Works Newsletter
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber. 2024. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years. W. W. Norton.
• Charles C. Mann. 2006. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd edition). Penguin Random House.
• Kenneth L. Feder. 2025. Native America: The Story of the First Peoples. Princeton University Press.

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And, do US academics face a similar situation today?

References mentioned this episode:

• Frank Stahnisch. 2025. Great Minds in Despair: The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Susan E. Cayleff. 2016. Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Christopher Lawrence and George Weisz, eds. 1998. Holism: Greater Than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950. Oxford University Press.
• Kenneth J. Zahorski. 1994. The Sabbatical Mentor: A Practical Guide to Successful Sabbaticals. Anker Pub Co.
• Frank Stahnisch’s faculty page

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We forgot to mention Bob Jones was the son of a Confederate veteran.

References mentioned this episode:

• Adam Laats’s website
• Adam Laats. April 28, 2025. Trump Is Out for Revenge. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Jim Fraser. 2025. Religion and the American University. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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