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Intellectual History September 15, 2021

Wollstonecraft

Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

Sylvana Tomaselli

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women’s rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full …

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Journalism September 10, 2021

All the News That’s Fit to Click

How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists

Caitlin Petre

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
Over the past 15 years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsroom metrics influence which stories are …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel September 6, 2021

Christian Globalism at Home

Child Sponsorship in the United States

Hillary Kaell

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Child sponsorship, originally a project of nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries, has become one of today’s most profitable private fund-raising tools for global organizations, including World Vision, Compassion International, and ChildFund. Christian …
Anthropology September 6, 2021

In Humboldt's Shadow

A Tragic History of German Ethnology

H. Glenn Penny

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe. In Humboldt's Shadow: A …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast September 1, 2021

Ice Rivers

A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity

Jemma Wadham

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying. Meanwhile …
National Security August 27, 2021

Nonstate Warfare

The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Stephen Biddle

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
From the Taliban to Hezbollah, armed nonstate actors and civil warfare have dominated the US national security debate for much of the last 20 years. Yet, most analysis shares a …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast August 16, 2021

Moving Up Without Losing Your Way

The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

Jennifer Morton

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails …
Academic Life August 12, 2021

The Book Proposal Book

A Guide for Scholarly Authors

Laura Portwood-Stacer

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 …
Political Science August 12, 2021

The Great Demographic Illusion

Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

Richard Alba

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has written an intriguing new book on our understanding of American demographic data, and how …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast August 2, 2021

In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio

The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio (Princeton UP, 2021) examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten …
Asian Review of Books July 22, 2021

The Last Embassy

The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

Tonio Andrade

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
On January 10th, 1795, a very tired caravan arrives in Beijing. The travelers have journeyed from Canton on an accelerated schedule through harsh terrain in order to make it to …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast July 15, 2021

Émigrés

French Words That Turned English

Richard Scholar

Hosted by Marshall Poe
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naïveté and caprice—lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi …
Literary Studies July 15, 2021

Dweller in Shadows

A Life of Ivor Gurney

Kate Kennedy

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry …
Russian and Eurasian Studies July 13, 2021

Weak Strongman

The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia

Timothy Frye

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Putin is not the unconstrained, all-powerful boogeyman he is made out to be in the popular Western media. So says Timothy Frye, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in …
Art July 12, 2021

A History of Art History

Christopher Wood

Hosted by Allison Leigh
In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through …
Art July 9, 2021

Painting by Numbers

Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art

Diana Seave Greenwald

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer …
East Asian Studies July 7, 2021

Making It Count

Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China

Arunabh Ghosh

Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
The first historical study of the development of statistics in Mao-era China, Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China (Princeton University Press, 2020) explores …
South Asian Studies July 6, 2021

Accidental Feminism

Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

Hosted by Noopur Raval
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's lawyers are female, but women in …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast July 1, 2021

What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?

A Discussion to with Rob Tempio

Rob Tempio

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Rob Tempio, the editor of a wonderful collection of books from Princeton University Press called "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers." The series presents the timeless and timely ideas …
Intellectual History June 30, 2021

Why We Are Restless

On the Modern Quest for Contentment

Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
What makes us happy? What keeps us from being happy? Is restlessness the same thing as unhappiness? Is happiness something we should value or assume we can even find? These …