Politics & Society

Animal Studies

Animal Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Animal Studies about their new books.

Kenneth G. Zysk, "South Asian Animal Divination: A Critical Anthology" (Brill, 2025)

May 14, 2026

South Asian Animal Divination

Kenneth G. Zysk
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

March 9, 2026

Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence

Sezai Ozan Zeybek
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Anthropology

Anthropology

episodes

Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.

Archaeology

Archaeology

episodes

Interviews with archaeologists about their new books.

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
John Waddell, "The Celtic World: A History" (Four Courts Press, 2026)

May 23, 2026

The Celtic World

John Waddell
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.

Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?

May 26, 2026

Billionaire Backlash

Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy at Oxford University
Media and Communications

Media and Communications

episodes

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

Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)

May 28, 2026

Stories We Wear

Shefalee Vasudev
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Critical Theory

Critical Theory

episodes

Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.

Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)

May 28, 2026

The Door of No Return

Michael E Sawyer
Hosted by Brigid Wallace
Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

We Have Come to Be Destroyed

Laura Tisdall
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Disability Studies

Disability Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.

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
Eloise Moss, "The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

May 17, 2026

The Secret Life of the Hotel

Eloise Moss
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

episodes

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

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
Kenneth Anderson, "Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure: Volume Three of the Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc., 2022)

April 29, 2026

Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure

Kenneth Anderson
Hosted by Emily Dufton
Education

Education

episodes

Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

May 25, 2026

Stories of Struggle

Claudia Smith Brinson
Hosted by Matt Simmons
Economics

Economics

episodes

Interviews with economists about their new books.

Daniela Soto-Hernández, "Lithium Extraction in Chile: Ontological, Ecological and Economic Dimensions" (Routledge, 2025)

May 24, 2026

Lithium Extraction in Chile

Daniela Soto-Hernández
Finance

Finance

episodes

An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.

Jesper Rangvid, "How Low Interest Rates Change the World: Global Trends Caused by Low Rates and Emerging Factors Shaping the Future of Rates" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 16, 2026

How Low Interest Rates Change the World

Jesper Rangvid
Photis Lysandrou, "Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It" (Policy Press, 2025)

May 12, 2026

Dollar Dominance

Photis Lysandrou
Geography

Geography

episodes

Interviews with geographers about their new books.

Gender Studies

Gender Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.

Frances Kneupper, "Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 28, 2026

Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400

Frances Courtney Kneupper
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

We Have Come to Be Destroyed

Laura Tisdall
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Genocide Studies

Genocide Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of genocide about their new books.

Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)

May 20, 2026

Saving Our Survivors

Rachel Deblinger
Hosted by Ran Zwigenberg
Alice von Bieberstein, "Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

May 17, 2026

Temptations in Ruin

Alice von Bieberstein
Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
Higher Education

Higher Education

episodes

Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Campus Whisper Networks

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri, "Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future" (Ibidem Press, 2025)

May 27, 2026

Intellectual Self-Destruction

Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri
Hosted by Drora Arussy
Human Rights

Human Rights

episodes

Interviews with scholars of human rights about their new books.

Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)

May 22, 2026

Destination Elsewhere

Ruth Balint
Kristin LaFollette, "Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade" (SUNY Press, 2026)

May 20, 2026

Rehumanizing People of the Past

Kristin LaFollette
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Journalism

Journalism

episodes

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

Robin Andersen, "The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza" (OR Books, 2026)

May 9, 2026

The Complicit Lens

Robin Andersen
Hosted by Stuti Roy
Language and Translation

Language and Translation

episodes

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

Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)

May 29, 2026

Scottish Plant Names

Gregory J. Kenicer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Law

Law

episodes

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

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

May 25, 2026

Stories of Struggle

Claudia Smith Brinson
Hosted by Matt Simmons
LGBTQ+ Studies

LGBTQ+ Studies

episodes

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

Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

We Have Come to Be Destroyed

Laura Tisdall
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)

May 25, 2026

Glitter

Nicole Seymour
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
National Security

National Security

episodes

Interviews with scholars of national security about their new books.

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
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

May 25, 2026

The Birth of Psychological War

Jeffrey Whyte
Hosted by Michael Vann
Philanthropy

Philanthropy

episodes

Interviews with authors about their new philanthropy books.

Philosophy

Philosophy

episodes

Interviews with philosophers about their new books.

PJ DiPietro, "Sideways Selves Travesti and Jotería, "Struggles Across the Américas" (U Texas Press, 2025)

May 24, 2026

Sideways Selves

PJ DiPietro
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Alexander Klein, "Consciousness is Motor: William James on Mind and Action" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 10, 2026

Consciousness is Motor

Alexander Klein
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform

Policing, Incarceration, and Reform

episodes

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

Angela Byrne, "Finding Mary: The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844" (Four Courts Press, 2025)

May 26, 2026

Finding Mary

Angela Byrne
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Stuart Schrader, "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Serve and Protect Themselves" (Basic Books, 2026)

May 23, 2026

Blue Power

Stuart Schrader
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.

The Instigators

May 28, 2026

The Instigators

Atima Omara
Politics & Polemics

Politics & Polemics

episodes

Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.

Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)

May 28, 2026

Stories We Wear

Shefalee Vasudev
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)

May 28, 2026

What They Stole

Paige Towers
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Public Policy

Public Policy

episodes

Interviews with scholars of public policy about their new books.

Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

May 21, 2026

A Revolution of Rules

Erica Bornstein
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Photis Lysandrou, "Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It" (Policy Press, 2025)

May 12, 2026

Dollar Dominance

Photis Lysandrou
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

episodes

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

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Campus Whisper Networks

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

May 25, 2026

Making the Renaissance Man

Timothy McCall
Hosted by Jana Byars
Sociology

Sociology

episodes

Interviews with sociologists about their new books.

Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 29, 2026

Nourishing Networks

Ashley Rose Young
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Campus Whisper Networks

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Sound Studies

Sound Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Sound Studies about their new books.

Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

May 26, 2026

The Quiet Zone

Petal Kimberly Samuel
Hosted by Kendall Dinniene
The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration

May 11, 2026

The YIVO Sound Archive at 40

Hankus Netsky, Henry Sapoznik, Lorin Sklamberg, Eléonore Biezunski, and Jenny Romaine
Hosted by YIVO Institute
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

Chunmei Du, "Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians in the Aftermath of World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 28, 2026

Everyday Occupation

Chunmei Du
Hosted by Anthony Kao
David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Segregation Games