About Chris Fojtik

NBN Episodes hosted by Chris:

Albert Wu, "From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950" (Yale UP, 2016)

July 19, 2017

From Christ to Confucius

Albert Wu
Hosted by Chris Fojtik

Where Europeans have gone, so, too, have their ideas about religion. We know that this was no one-way street, that Christian missionaries have both ch…

Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken, "Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2015)

February 4, 2017

Black Germany

Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken
Hosted by Chris Fojtik

"There were black Germans?" My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans th…

Greg Eghigian, "The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany" (U Michigan Press, 2015)

September 9, 2016

The Corrigible and the Incorrigible

Greg Eghigian
Hosted by Chris Fojtik

When I first read Foucault's Discipline and Punish as an undergrad, I remember wondering, "What does this look like, though? How might the disciplinin…