Looking for a new podcast? Here's what our faculty and staff are listening to.
The University of Maryland College of Information Studies (INFO College) is a community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni who believe that information can transform lives. But we don’t just study, work, live, and breathe info — we also enjoy it! Here is a selection of our faculty and staff members’ favorite podcasts.
Emilia Azar, Program Coordinator, Master of Information Management (MIM) + CPIM, CIRPS, GEM, Data Journalism
- NYT “The Daily”
- Psychologists Off The Clock
Max Balagtas-Badoy, Academic Program Specialist
- Wonderful!: An Enthusiast Podcast
- Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Rachael Bennett, Event Management Coordinator
- Crime Junkie (True Crime)
- Park Predators (True Crime)
- Something Was Wrong (True Crime)
- Wine & Crime (True Crime)
- And That’s Why We Drink (True Crime)
- Best Friends with comedians Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata (Wholesome friendship-related)
- Beach Too Sandy Water Too Wet (Hilarious yelp reviews)
Tetyana Bezbabna, Assistant Director, InfoSci Shady Grove
- Life is a Marathon (Bruce Van Horn, Motivational)
- The Lazy Genius (Kendra Adachi, Motivational)
- The Working with… Podcast (Carl Pullein, Motivational)
Carol Boston, Community Engagement Faculty Assistant
- Being Well (Rick Hanson)
- Insights from the Edge (Tami Simon)
Jacob Stirling Davidson, Academic Advisor & Outreach Coordinator, InfoSci Shady Grove
- Unexplainable (Science podcast delving into the unknown)
- Tides of History
- Pop Culture Happy Hour by NPR (Fun casual listen)
- Air/Space (Smithsonian)
- Sidedoor (Smithsonian)
Neil Dhingra, Graduate Academic Advisor
- Bone Valley (Regarding cults)
- The Dropout
- Bad Blood: The Final Chapter (John Carreyrou)
Jen Golbeck, Professor
- Maintenance Phase
- Normal Gossip
- American Skyjacker (Every episode is wilder than the last)
Renee Hill, Principal Lecturer
- Wards of the State (Karlos Dillard, Interviews of former foster youth and adoptees – fascinating, horrifying, and humorous)
- All Things Iceland (Jewells Chambers, Adventures of a Black New Yorker turned Icelander)
- Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty, Words and their origins)
- But Why? (Vermont Public, Kids asking cool questions)
Eric Hing-Tao Hung, Adjunct Lecturer
- King of Kowloon (About a graffiti artist and a lot more)
Daniel Greene, Assistant Professor
- Comedy Bang! Bang!
- The Neighborhood Listen
- Tech Talk with Tim and Ted
- The Dig (Jacobin’s book podcast),
- Odd Lots (Bloomberg’s financial news podcast)
- Know Your Enemy (Dissent’s conservatism podcast)
Keith Marzullo, Professor and Dean
- More or Less: Behind the Statistics (Tim Harford)
- The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (Off-the-wall insightful science reporting)
- True Crime Medieval (Anne Brannen and Michelle Butler, A thousand years of people behaving badly)
Abdirisak Mohamed, Adjunct Lecturer
- Sean Carroll’s Mindscape
- Machine Learning Street Talk
- The Happiness Lab
Joseph Sherren, MLIS Program Coordinator
- Behind the Bastards
- Slow Burn (Slate)
- American Scandal (Wondery)
- Punch Up the Jams (Good fun digging into popular songs)
Imani Thibou, Comms Graduate Assistant
- Your Undivided Attention (Center for Humane Technology)
Victoria Van Hyning, Assistant Professor
- Cautionary Tales (Tim Harford)
- Ear Hustle (Stories from hosts incarcerated at San Quentin)
- Oh No Ross and Carey (Hosts engage with different faith communities)
- Splendid Table (Francis Lam about food and traditions across the US)
- Sold a Story (Good one for school library specialists!)
- Anything from BBC Radio 4
Tatyana Yevgrafova, Program Coordinator
- Mindvalley Podcast
- BenGreenfield Life
- I will Teach You To Be Rich
- Kwik Brain