An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette about the book Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health among Faculty and Staff in Higher Education, which she has co-edited with Rebecca Pope Ruark. We discuss the trap and the promise of higher education for neurodivergent folks, and the ways that contributors to the book navigate that. 

Related Posts, Podcasts & Books:
All The Things ADHD - Podcast - https://allthethingsadhd.com/

Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (book) - by Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD - https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12574/unraveling-faculty-burnout

Lee featured on an episode of Rebecca’s podcast too: S5:E1 - the agile academic - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lee-skallerup-bessette-of-many-minds/id1550448046?i=1000723541561

This interview was conducted via Zoom on Sept 17 2025. It has been substantially edited, as mentioned in the introduction, for ease of reading/listening and reference.

Of Many Minds: An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Of Many Minds: An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette

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