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Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast March 20, 2023

Just as Deadly

The Psychology of Female Serial Killers

Marissa A. Harrison

Hosted by Mark Klobas
You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing …

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Irish Studies March 20, 2023

Land and Liberalism

Henry George and the Irish Land War

Andrew Phemister

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Andrew Phemister is Research Associate at Newcastle University. He has previously held postdoctoral positions in History at NUI Galway, the University of Oxford, and Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in …
Political Science March 16, 2023

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

Hernán Flom

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Hernán Flom has written a fascinating and nuanced analysis of how the criminal drug markets operate in Argentina and Brazil. Instead of tracking the path that illegal drugs …
Japanese Studies March 10, 2023

Science for Governing Japan's Population

Aya Homei

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Aya Homei’s Science for Governing Japan’s Population (Cambridge UP, 2022) examines the science and policy of population in Japan, 1860s-1960s. As in other modern nation-states and empires, population has been …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast March 9, 2023

New Orleans

A Writer's City

T. R. Johnson

Hosted by Mark Klobas
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and …
Biblical Studies March 7, 2023

The Revelation of the Messiah

The Christological Mystery of Luke 1-2 and Its Unveiling in Luke-Acts

Caleb Friedeman

Hosted by Michael Morales
In the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel, characters acknowledge Jesus as Messiah, Son of God, and Lord. Such a high Christology, however, appears incongruous with the body of the …
Political Science March 6, 2023

Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp

Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda

Ulrike Krause

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a …
South Asian Studies March 5, 2023

Planning Democracy

Modern India's Quest for Development

Nikhil Menon

Hosted by Anubha Anushree
The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy: Modern India's Quest for Development (Cambridge UP, 2022) explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management …
British Studies March 2, 2023

Hidden Histories of the Dead

Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

Elizabeth T. Hurren

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren maps the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and …
Medicine February 26, 2023

Embodied Injustice

Race, Disability, and Health

Mary Crossley

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation …
Gender Studies February 22, 2023

Becoming Young Men in a New India

Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony

Shannon Philip

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
Shannon Philip's book Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony (Cambridge UP, 2022) tells the gendered story of a changing India through the …
Diplomatic History February 21, 2023

Improbable Diplomats

How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations

Pete Millwood

Hosted by Grant Golub
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by …
Intellectual History February 17, 2023

The Counterinsurgent Imagination

A New Intellectual History

Joseph MacKay

Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has …
Indian Ocean World February 7, 2023

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890

Philip Gooding

Hosted by Gargi Binju
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship …
Law February 3, 2023

The Practice of American Constitutional Law

H. Jefferson Powell

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
What areas of our lives are governed by constitutional law? When asked about what constitutional law is, Americans tend to think of notable Supreme Court cases such as the abortion …
Science, Technology, and Society February 3, 2023

Should You Believe Wikipedia?

Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge

Amy S. Bruckman

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 31, 2023

Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World

Arthur Keefer

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Is the search for meaning a luxury of the modern world or have human beings always struggled to find meaning in the human condition – in the face of suffering …
Diplomatic History January 31, 2023

Petroleum and Progress in Iran

Oil, Development, and the Cold War

Greg Brew

Hosted by Grant Golub
From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industrializing economy, expanding middle class, and powerful …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast January 29, 2023

This Is Not Who We Are

America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue

Zachary Shore

Hosted by Mark Klobas
What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the …
Eastern European Studies January 25, 2023

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice

Michael Fleming

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to the Allies and sought to reach …