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About Amanda Jeanne Swain
Amanda Jeanne Swain is executive director of the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a PhD in Russian & East European European History from the University of Washington.Amanda Jeanne Swain, PhD. Historian. Research development leader and higher education professional.
NBN Episodes hosted by Amanda:
December 29, 2023
Between Truth and Time
In Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television (Yale University Press, 2016), Christine E. Evans reveals that Soviet television in …
June 24, 2021
Flowers Through Concrete
Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland (Oxford University Press, 2021) is the first chronological history of Soviet hippies, trac…
June 16, 2021
Putting the Humanities PhD to Work
In Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020), Katina L. Rogers tackles three major issues…
May 12, 2021
The New PhD
Whether and how to reform, indeed to transform graduate education has been a matter for debate, discussion and experimentation over the past 30 years …
October 31, 2017
Whose Bosnia?
It seemed that everyone wanted Bosnia in the late nineteenth century: Serbian and Croatian nationalists; Ottoman, Habsburg, Muslim and Yugoslav moveme…
August 19, 2017
The People's Own Landscape
The new German Democratic Republic, known as East Germany, faced many challenges when it was founded in 1949. Not least of which was convincing its ci…
August 13, 2017
American Girls in Red Russia
In American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the American Dream (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Julia Mickenberg tells the story of women both famous…
July 25, 2017
Hip Hop Ukraine
In 2004, during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Adriana Helbig saw African musicians rapping in Ukrainian and wearing embroidered Ukrainian ethnic c…
July 8, 2017
Designing Tito's Capital
NB: An earlier version of this podcast has been replaced with a new file in which the the technical problems of the first were corrected. -NBn, 7/11/1…
May 2, 2017
Bearslayers
In 1959, approximately 2,000 members of the the Latvian Communist Party were purged for "nationalist tendencies." However, the causes of their rise an…
March 25, 2017
The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia
In The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University Press, 2014), Melissa Chakars reveals not only how So…
January 4, 2017
The High Title of a Communist
Edward Cohn analyzes changes in Communist Party discipline in the Soviet Union from the Eighteenth Party Congress in 1939 through the 1960s in The Hig…
January 4, 2017
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania
In The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, published by Routledge, Violeta Davoliute calls Lithuania an …
September 30, 2016
The Red Rockets' Glare
In The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Asif Siddiqi approaches the history o…
September 12, 2016
After the Revolution
Jessica Greenberg's After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford University Press, 2014) explores a …
August 18, 2016
States of Obligation
I have to admit that I was quite intimidated by a book on taxation in imperial Russia. But States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian …
June 19, 2016
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna?
Starting with Metternich's declaration that the Balkans begin at Rennweg (a street in the Third District of Vienna), Ana Foteva draws on novels, plays…
May 23, 2016
The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931
I don't often have a chance to read books that focus solely on Belarus, which is exactly why I was intrigued by The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nation…
May 23, 2016
Sex, Politics &
The prevalence of media that reinforces a traditional masculine image of Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader, is at the core of Valerie Sperling's analysi…
March 25, 2016
The People's Game
In The People's Game: Football, State and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Alan McDougall looks at football from the top-down and bottom-up…
March 7, 2016
Written Here, Published There
Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (Central European University Press, 2014) is a richly detailed desc…
December 18, 2015
The Power of Song
In the late 1980s, the Baltic Soviet Social Republics seemed to explode into song as Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian national movements challenged So…
November 3, 2015
Holy Legionary Youth
Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (Cornell University Press, 2015) is an in-depth study of the Legion of the Archangel Michae…
October 9, 2015
Kith, Kin and Neighbors
In 1636, King Wladyslaw IV's quartermaster surveyed the houses of Wilno in advance of the king's visit to the city. In Kith, Kin and Neighbors: Commun…