Why Do We Love True Crime? (Harold Schecter)
An interview with Harold Schechter about the allure of the True Crime genre.
Queens College’s Counseling Services
We meet Counseling Center Director Barbara Moore to discuss counseling services available to QC students.
QC Analytics Wins at UN Hackathon
QC Analytics wins at a global hackathon! We meet the winning team to learn about analytics, hackathons, and more.
Ann Powers
NPR music critic Ann Powers sits down with Jason Tougaw.
Political Rage and the Media
The Knight News’ Samantha Galvez-Montiel interviews Media Studies’ Benjamin Strassfield about America’s increasingly fraught political culture.
CUNY, Cutbacks, and Threats to Social Mobility
We talk with Urban Studies professor Natalie Vena and pre-dentistry student Tiara Miller about CUNY’s social justice mission, what it has made possible in their own lives, chronic underfunding, and the future of this powerful institution of social mobility. Host Jason Tougaw.
Learning about COVID19 with John Dennehy
We talk about COVID19 with QC virologist John Dennehy.
Life as a New York Journalist with Amir Khafagy
In this episode of the QC Pod, we meet Amir Khafagy, freelance journalist and QC graduate with a B.A. and M.A. in Urban Studies from Queens College. Khafagy’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Vice, Bloomberg, and City Limits. He’s the recipient of The New Economics Reporting Fellowship and the Asian American Writers Workshop […]
Campus Labor Relations
In this episode of the QC Pod, we meet two campus labor leaders to discuss the current state of labor relations between campus faculty and executives. Jane Guskin is an adjunct in the Urban Studies department at Queens College, a PSC delegate, and co-founder of QC Adjuncts Unite. David Gerwin is a faculty member in the department […]
Inside Weill Cornell’s COVID-19 Testing Lab
Ever wondered what happens to the sample after that swab invades your nasal passages? On this week’s episode of the QC Pod, we meet Kathy Fauntleroy, Microbiology Laboratory Supervisor at New York Presbyterian Hospital by day–and MFA in Creative Nonfiction student by night. In addition to being at the forefront of the fight against COVID19, […]