The BUCH Podcast brought students, scholars, and authors together to connect personal experience to larger questions facing society. It ran for five seasons, and every episode is still available below.
Season Five: The Order of Things
BU alumni and scholars talk about studying and disrupting systems of order in their own work, from the role of beauty in programming to twentieth-century artists who unsettled religious norms.
- Episode One: Managing Director Kurt Cavender talks with data architect and BU alumnus Glenn Street about moving from philosophy to data science, the evolution of AI, and beauty in mathematics and programming.
- Episode Two: Roni Lakin (’25) talks with Associate Professor of Religion Anthony Petro about his book Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars, completed during his Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowship.
- Episode Three: Kurt Cavender talks with Nick Bates, Director of the Howard Thurman Center, about Thurman’s legacy and why it matters today.
Season Four: Building Bridges
Students and scholars working in the digital humanities talk about bringing new tools and methods into humanistic research.
- Episode One: Roni Lakin (’25) talks with Elizabeth Kostina (’24), co-founder of BU’s Armchair Journal, about AI in scholarship and expanding the art history canon.
- Episode Two: Associate Director Margarita Guillory talks with MIT postdoc Adrienne Vancura and BU Classics PhD student Silvia Miotti about connecting ideas across disciplines.
Season Three: Inspiring Stories from BU Humanities
A BU undergraduate and a BU professor talk about the ideas and mentors that drew them into university life, and their ambitions as scholars, teachers, and reformers.
- Episode One: Roni Lakin (’25) talks with Nevaèh Calliste (’26), founder of Survivor’s Awareness, about her transition to college and her service work.
- Episode Two: Then-Director Susan Mizruchi talks with Margarita Guillory, Associate Professor of Religion and African American & Black Diaspora Studies, about her path from STEM to the humanities.
Season Two: Migration Memoirs in the Global Age
Three authors talk about their memoirs of migrating from the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia, and of becoming American.
- Episode One: Junot Díaz talks with Dan-el Padilla Peralta about Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League.
- Episode Two: Claire Messud talks with Roya Hakakian about A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious.
- Episode Three: Sianne Ngai talks with poet Cathy Park Hong about Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.
Season One: Black Memoirs in the Global Age
Three authors talk about their memoirs and the experience of being both Black and diasporic in the United States today.
- Episode One: Sandro Galea talks with Bassey Ikpi about I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying.
- Episode Two: Patricia Williams talks with Orlando Patterson about The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament.
- Episode Three: Caryl Phillips talks with Louis Chude-Sokei about Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir.