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High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …

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The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

An Introduction

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault September 21, 2018

An Introduction to NYIH Studios

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
Ministry of Ideas August 1, 2017

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
Music December 8, 2022

An American Singing Heritage

Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century

Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas

Hosted by Kristen Turner
The Music of the United States of America Series of musical editions is a monumental undertaking funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities with financial and organizational support from …
Asian Review of Books December 8, 2022

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Jamil Jan Kochai

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The first story in Jamil Jan Kochai’s newest collection has an interesting title and premise. “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” leads The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and …
General History December 8, 2022

Realigners

Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy

Timothy Shenk

Hosted by Sean Byrnes
These days it seems that nobody is satisfied with American democracy. Critics across the ideological spectrum warn that the country is heading toward catastrophe but also complain that nothing seems …
Historical Fiction December 8, 2022

The American Adventuress

A Novel

C. W. Gortner

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
From Lucrezia Borgia to Marlene Dietrich, Empress Marie Fyodorovna of Russia, and most recently the actress Sarah Bernhardt, C. W. Gortner has made a career out of finding strong, fascinating, real-life …
Israel Studies December 8, 2022

Reaching for the Heights

The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace

Frederic C. Hof

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace (USIP, 2022) is an insider’s account of secret negotiations to broker a Syria-Israel peace …
Science, Technology, and Society December 8, 2022

Democracy's Data

The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

Dan Bouk

Hosted by Laura Stark
Dan Bouk is a writer, professor, and cultural historian of quantification, or as Bouk puts it, the history all fascinating things “shrouded in the cloak of borningness.” In Bouk’s book …
Critical Theory December 8, 2022

Palm Oil

The Grease of Empire

Max Haiven

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Palm oil is a commodity like no other. Found in half of supermarket products, from food to cosmetics to plastics, it has shaped the world in which we live. In …
Higher Education December 8, 2022

Mergers in Higher Education

A Discussion with Beth Hillman, President of Mills College (2016-2022)

Beth Hillman

Hosted by David Finegold
Beth Hillman discusses the recent merger between Mills College and Northeastern University. Hillman, who served as President of Mills from 2016-22, describes the many strategies that the Oakland, CA-based women’s …
Writ Large December 8, 2022

On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"

A Discussion with Dora Zhang

Dora Zhang

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In the early 20th century, Europe and North America were undergoing a radical transformation. Scientific, technological, and political changes disrupted many traditional forms of life. The growth of cities opened …
Academic Life December 8, 2022

Misrepresentation on Campus

A Conversation with Michelle Cyca

Michelle Cyca

Hosted by Christina Gessler
When a professor is not who they say they are, what does it take to get them to resign? This episode explores: How an anonymous twitter account and a media …
Economics December 8, 2022

The Federal Reserve

A New History

Robert L. Hetzel

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
In The Federal Reserve: A New History (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Robert Hetzel draws on a 43-year career as an economist in the central bank to trace the influence of …
SSEAC Stories December 8, 2022

Safe and Sound?

On the Intersection of Child Protection and Child and Youth Residential Care in the Philippines

Steven Roche

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the Philippines, unknown numbers of children are in institutional care. Commonly known as residential care or orphanages, these institutions have been established to fill a social welfare gap, and …
Sociology December 8, 2022

Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia

An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources

Inna Perheentupa

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Inna Perheentupa's book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically …
Indian Religions December 8, 2022

Words for the Heart

A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India

Maria Heim

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton UP, 2022) is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India’s earliest classical languages. Inspired …
African American Studies December 8, 2022

The Matter of Black Living

The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930

Autumn Womack

Hosted by Laura Stark
Autumn Womack is a professor of English and of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her new book, The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–193 …