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Academic Life
April 22, 2021
An Inside Look at the American Historical Association
An Interview with Laura Ansley
Laura Ansley
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
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History
April 22, 2021
Lenin Lives!
Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Philip Cunliffe
Hosted by Michael Vann
While a number of books came out on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, few seriously considered how the 20th century would have unfolded differently if the violent forces of …
East Asian Studies
April 22, 2021
Building a Religious Empire
Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa
Brenton Sullivan
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
How did Geluk Buddhism become the most widespread school of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Asia and beyond? In Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa (University …
African American Studies
April 22, 2021
At the Threshold of Liberty
Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
Tamika Y. Nunley
Hosted by Adam McNeil
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing …
Middle Eastern Studies
April 21, 2021
When We Were Arabs
A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
Massoud Hayoun
Hosted by Nadirah Mansour
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History (New Press, 2019) is part-memoir, part-history of Jewish Arabs. We follow Massoud Hayoun as he documents his family’s history, their place …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex
April 21, 2021
Why We Lost the Sex Wars
Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era
Lorna N. Bracewell
Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their abusers publicly--from well-known celebrities to politicians and …
Gender and Sexuality
April 21, 2021
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States
Kinky People Unite
Stephen K. Stein
Hosted by Isabel Machado
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite (Routledge, 2021) chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period …
History
April 21, 2021
England in the Age of Austen
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black's new book on England in the Age of Austen, just published by Indiana University Press (2021), will be a treat for anyone who loves Jane - and who does …
Secularism
April 20, 2021
Speak of the Devil
How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion
Joseph P. Laycock
Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to …
Finance
April 20, 2021
Probable Justice
Rethinking the Politics of Risk
Rachel Z. Friedman
Hosted by Daniel Peris
The emergence of individual and commercial insurance in Early Modern Europe required an understanding of probability. In Probable Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Risk (U Chicago Press, 2020), Rachel Friedman highlights the …
Biography
April 20, 2021
The Girl Who Dared to Defy
Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
Jane Little Botkin
Hosted by Mark Klobas
In 1916, hundreds of local female household workers attempted to establish a union in Denver. The organizer behind the effort was Jane Street, a remarkable 29-year-old woman who, as Jane …
Latin American Studies
April 19, 2021
Fugitive Freedom
The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico
William B. Taylor
Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez
Though poverty and vagrancy as social phenomena greatly preoccupied authorities of Colonial Mexico, the social and individual lives of vagabonds and strangers of Spanish American early modernity remain elusive to the historian. In his …
Music
April 19, 2021
Chronicling Stankonia
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
Regina N. Bradley
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed …
African Studies
April 19, 2021
National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa
A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps
Christian A. Williams
Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
In National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Christian Williams tells the stories of the many exiles that lived in camps established by the …
History
April 19, 2021
A New Christian Identity
Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture
Amy B. Voorhees
Hosted by Lane Davis
In A New Christian Identity: Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), Amy B. Voorhees contextualizes this American religious movement and argues that Christian Science …
Latino Studies
April 16, 2021
Abstract Barrios
The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities
Johana Londoño
Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects …
Critical Theory
April 16, 2021
Redlining Culture
A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction
Richard Jean So
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020), Richard Jean So, an assistant professor of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
April 16, 2021
Unity in Faith?
Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Old Belief, 1800-1918
James White
Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
Dr. James White’s new book, Unity in Faith?: Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Old Belief, 1800-1918 (Indiana University Press, 2020) discusses the Russian Orthodox/Old Believer schism. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries …
Architecture
April 16, 2021
Gardens at the Frontier
New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes
James Beattie
Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes (Routledge, 2019) addresses broad issues of interest to architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers, geographers, and other …
History
April 16, 2021
The Golden Age of the American Essay
1945-1970
Phillip Lopate
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in …
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