Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Studies

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Interviews with scholars of Indigenous Studies about their new books.

Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics with Natalie Bennett (Routledge, 2026)

October 10, 2026

Green Thinking

Natalie Bennett
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics (Routledge, 2026) is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated idea…

A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa with Matthew P. Fitzpatrick (Oxford UP, 2025)

October 8, 2026

A Pacific Power

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thr…

The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

October 8, 2026

The Centrality of Slavery

Hosted by Matthew Mason

The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) examines how French and American colo…

Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026)

October 3, 2026

Lives, Land, and Labour

Luc Bulten
Hosted by Lewis Wade

The "Thombos" are a rather unique collection of eighteenth-century land and population registers detailing the lives lived, lands held, and labour pro…

Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico

September 24, 2026

Tsunami

Heather Cleary and Gabriela Jauregui eds.

Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico (Feminist Press, 2025) gathers the multiplic…

Lee M. Panich and Gustavo Flores, "We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

September 23, 2026

We Will Receive Justice

Lee M. Panich and Gustavo Flores
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions (U Nebraska Press, 2026) by Dr. Lee M. Panich & Gustavo Flore…

Jared D Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor, "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" (OSU Press, 2026)

September 19, 2026

Landkeeping

Jared D Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor

With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impa…

Sandra Rozental, "The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft" (Duke UP, 2026)

September 17, 2026

The Absent Stone

Sandra Rozental
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state…

William R. Handley, "Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

September 16, 2026

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

William R. Handley
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) by Dr. William R. Handley contributes to discussions in the environm…

Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)

September 15, 2026

Afroindigenization

Catherine A John
Hosted by Mickell Carter

In Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice (Duke University Press, 2026), Catherine A. John addresses the underbelly of spiritual…

R. Douglas Hurt, "The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

September 14, 2026

The Country People

R. Douglas Hurt
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Although historians have given considerable attention to the American Revolution, the agricultural history of the American War for Independence exists…

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

September 4, 2026

Alterhumanism

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani
Hosted by Yadong Li

In the Anthropocene, a question has become increasingly urgent: What does it mean to be human? Set against the backdrop of southern Chile’s conservati…

Filmmaker Peter Santenello on Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home

September 1, 2026

Your Fellow Americans

Peter Santenello
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a h…

Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels, "Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law" (NYU Press, 2026)

August 29, 2026

Lessons for a Warming Planet

Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels

The relationship between humans and the environment in the United States reflects tales of countless contrasting and overlapping trends, movements, an…

Arturo Chang, "A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2026)

August 20, 2026

A New World of Revolutions

Arturo Chang
Hosted by Matthew Mason

In A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas (Princeton UP, 2026), Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, p…

Taking The Scenic Route To High Quality Education For Indigenous Students

August 19, 2026

Taking The Scenic Route To High Quality Education For Indigenous Students

Hannah Madin and Catherine White

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Hannah Madin and Catherine White. Hannah is a Teaching and Learning Offi…

Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)

August 17, 2026

Decolonial Endurance

Ting Hui Lau
Hosted by Yadong Li

A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do peopl…

Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)

August 9, 2026

Near and Desired Things

Marisa Karyl Franz
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museum…

Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

August 7, 2026

Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific

Edlie Wong
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2026) is an Element which centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generat…

Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West" (Basic Books, 2025)

August 7, 2026

Wakara's America

Max Perry Mueller
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

In the mid-19th century, anyone who was anyone in the American West had heard of the Ute leader Wakara. Yet, by the early twenty first century, his st…