Politics & Society

Animal Studies

Animal Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Animal Studies about their new books.

Mardi Reardon-Smith, "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" (Stanford UP, 2025)

June 10, 2026

Making Do

Mardi Reardon-Smith
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

May 30, 2026

How Plague Got Rats

Christos Lynteris
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Anthropology

Anthropology

episodes

Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.

Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

June 15, 2026

Queer Making

Karl Whittington
Hosted by Jana Byars
Archaeology

Archaeology

episodes

Interviews with archaeologists about their new books.

Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

June 1, 2026

Empires of the Southern Ocean

Dougald O’Reilly
Hosted by Patrick Jory
Patrick Wyman, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)

May 26, 2026

Lost Worlds

Patrick Wyman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Business, Management, and Marketing

Business, Management, and Marketing

episodes

Interviews with scholars of business, management and marketing about their new books.

Media and Communications

Media and Communications

episodes

Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1

June 17, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Benjamen Walker, Mara Mills, and Fanny Gribenski
Cheryl Thompson, "Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2026)

June 16, 2026

Staging Blackface in Canada

Cheryl Thompson
Hosted by Sullivan Summer
Critical Theory

Critical Theory

episodes

Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.

Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)

June 18, 2026

Batman and the Classics

Michael D. Nichols
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Disability Studies

Disability Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

June 11, 2026

Can I Say That

Poornima Luthra
Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)

May 21, 2026

Tales of Health

Matthew L. Reznicek
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

episodes

Interviews with scholars of drugs, addiction and recovery about their new books.

David Petruccelli, "A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 31, 2026

A Scourge of Humanity

David Petruccelli
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)

May 12, 2026

Markets of Pain

Benjamin Robert Siegel
Hosted by Tom Sojka
Education

Education

episodes

Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1

June 17, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Benjamen Walker, Mara Mills, and Fanny Gribenski
Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

June 12, 2026

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World

Kristen Abbott Bennett
Hosted by John Yargo
Economics

Economics

episodes

Interviews with economists about their new books.

Finance

Finance

episodes

An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.

Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)

June 15, 2026

Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe

Jake Dyble
Hosted by Lewis Wade
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 13, 2026

Wild Tides

Patrick Brodie
Hosted by Sadie Couture
Geography

Geography

episodes

Interviews with geographers about their new books.

Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 11, 2026

The Invention of Order

Don Thomas Deere
Robert B. Marks, "Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years" (U California Press, 2026)

June 7, 2026

Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin

Robert B. Marks
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Gender Studies

Gender Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.

Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity

June 18, 2026

Pink Crime

Valena Beety
Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)

June 17, 2026

Saving Utopia

Joe P. L. Davidson
Hosted by Matt Dawson
Genocide Studies

Genocide Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of genocide about their new books.

Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)

June 7, 2026

The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Sarah M. Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, and Dominic Williams
Hosted by Kelly McFall
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty" (Duke UP, 2025)

June 5, 2026

Rwanda's Genocide Heritage

DELIA DUONG BA. WENDEL
Hosted by Kelly McFall
Higher Education

Higher Education

episodes

Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1

June 17, 2026

Audio and Ideas

Benjamen Walker, Mara Mills, and Fanny Gribenski
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober

June 17, 2026

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks

Josiah Ober
Hosted by Ryan Shinkel
Human Rights

Human Rights

episodes

Interviews with scholars of human rights about their new books.

Ida Kinalska-Pietruska and Isabella Skrypczak, "A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile" (Disruption Books, 2026)

June 14, 2026

A Polish Girl in Siberia

Ida Kinalska-Pietruska and Isabella Skrypczak
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty" (Duke UP, 2025)

June 5, 2026

Rwanda's Genocide Heritage

DELIA DUONG BA. WENDEL
Hosted by Kelly McFall
Journalism

Journalism

episodes

Interviews with journalists and scholars of journalism about their new books.

John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)

June 14, 2026

Can Robots Love God and Be Saved?

John Longhurst
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri
Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Days of Love and Rage

Anand Gopal
Hosted by Chris Holmes
Language and Translation

Language and Translation

episodes

Interviews with scholars of language and translation about their new books.

Great Minds in Despair

June 17, 2026

Frank Stahnisch
Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)

June 17, 2026

Always Carry Salt

Samantha Ellis
Hosted by Drora Arussy
Law

Law

episodes

Interviews with lawyers and scholars of law about their new books.

Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity

June 18, 2026

Pink Crime

Valena Beety
LGBTQ+ Studies

LGBTQ+ Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of LGBTQ+ Studies about their new books.

Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity

June 18, 2026

Pink Crime

Valena Beety
Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

June 15, 2026

Queer Making

Karl Whittington
Hosted by Jana Byars
National Security

National Security

episodes

Interviews with scholars of national security about their new books.

Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)

June 12, 2026

War at Arm's Length

Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes
Damien Van Puyvelde, "The DGSE: A Concise History of France's Foreign Intelligence Service" (Georgetown UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

The DGSE

Damien Van Puyvelde
Hosted by Luca Trenta
Philanthropy

Philanthropy

episodes

Interviews with authors about their new philanthropy books.

Philosophy

Philosophy

episodes

Interviews with philosophers about their new books.

Philippe Huneman, "When Metaphysics Meets Biology:  Kantian Approaches to the Concept of An Organism" (Routledge, 2026)

June 13, 2026

When Metaphysics Meets Biology

Philippe Huneman
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Rivka Weinberg, "The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time" (Oxford UP, 2026)

June 3, 2026

The Meaning of It All

Rivka Weinberg
Hosted by Blain Neufeld
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform

Policing, Incarceration, and Reform

episodes

Interviews with scholars of policing, incarceration and reform about their new books

Jesse Montgomery, "It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story" (UNC Press, 2026)

June 16, 2026

It Is Not Enough to Survive

Jesse Montgomery
Hosted by Michael Stauch
Kristian Williams, "Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising" (AK Press, 2026)

June 7, 2026

Policing the Progressive City

Kristian Williams
Hosted by Michael Stauch
Political Science

Political Science

episodes

The New Books in Political Science podcast provides lively discussions of politics based on the work of political scientists (and scholars concerned with politics in other disciplines). The podcast thinks holistically about politics – from global to local.

Our hosts! Lilly Goren is professor of Political Science at Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Susan Liebell is professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Lamis Abdelaaty is associate professor of Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs.

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober

June 17, 2026

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks

Josiah Ober
Hosted by Ryan Shinkel
Politics & Polemics

Politics & Polemics

episodes

Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.

Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)

June 14, 2026

A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda

Derek R. Peterson
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)

June 13, 2026

The White Pedestal

Curtis Dozier
Public Policy

Public Policy

episodes

Interviews with scholars of public policy about their new books.

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)

June 8, 2026

From the Margins

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds.
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

episodes

Interviews with scholars of sex, sexuality and sex work about their new books.

Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

June 15, 2026

Queer Making

Karl Whittington
Hosted by Jana Byars
Stephanie Coontz, "For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage" (Viking, 2026)

June 14, 2026

For Better and Worse

Stephanie Coontz
Sociology

Sociology

episodes

Interviews with sociologists about their new books.

Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)

June 17, 2026

Saving Utopia

Joe P. L. Davidson
Hosted by Matt Dawson
David Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)

June 15, 2026

The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities

David Leupold
Hosted by Ernest Lee
Sound Studies

Sound Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Sound Studies about their new books.

Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

June 9, 2026

The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema

Shikha Jhingan
Hosted by Khadeeja Amenda
Ginger Dellenbaugh, "Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

June 6, 2026

Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias

Ginger Dellenbaugh
Hosted by Bradley Morgan
Sports

Sports

episodes

Interviews with athletes and scholars of sports about their new books.

David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Segregation Games

Tom Meschery, "The Mad Manchurian: From the Internment Camps of Tokyo to the Hardwood Courts of the NBA" (Coffeetown Press, 2025)

May 19, 2026

The Mad Manchurian

Tom Meschery
Hosted by Paul Knepper
Urban Studies

Urban Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

Charlotte Brooks, "The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution" (U California Press, 2026)

June 18, 2026

The Moys of New York and Shanghai

Charlotte Brooks
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Yoshiko Nakano and Georgina Challen, "Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

June 17, 2026

Meiji Graves in Happy Valley

Yoshiko Nakano and Georgina Challen
Hosted by Bing Wang