Notre Dame Press Podcast

Notre Dame Press Podcast

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Interviews with authors of Notre Dame Press books.

Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)

June 10, 2026

Athenian Democracy

Arlene W. Saxonhouse

Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In Ath…

Józef Tischner, "The Philosophy of Drama" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

November 12, 2025

The Philosophy of Drama

Józef Tischner
Hosted by Nathan Phillips

The Philosophy of Drama (U Notre Dame Press, 2024), by the Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner (translated by Artur Rosman, University of Notre Dame P…

Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)

April 20, 2025

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose

Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Hosted by Daniel Moran

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (U Notre Dame Press, 2025) brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner A…

Justin Tse, "Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

December 18, 2024

Sheets of Scattered Sand

Justin Tse
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they ref…

Jonathan A. Seitz, "Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

June 3, 2024

Protestant Missionaries in China

Jonathan A. Seitz
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

With a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology (U Notre Dame Press, 2024) evaluates the role of…

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, "The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice" (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)

October 8, 2023

The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein's book The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice (U Notre Dame Press, 2023) explore…

Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

June 25, 2023

Progressivism

Bradley C. S. Watson
Hosted by Hope J. Leman
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“Only recently have scholars outside the historical profession identified progressivism for what it was and continues to be: a fundamental rupture wit…

Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)

February 24, 2023

Colin Powell

Jeffrey J. Matthews
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Until he passed away in 2021, Colin Powell was revered as one of America's most trusted and admired leaders. Jeffrey J. Matthews' Colin Powell: Imperf…

Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)

November 4, 2022

Don't Think for Yourself

Peter Adamson

In Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy (U Notre Dame Press, 2022), Peter Adamson provides an answer to a question a…

Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)

October 26, 2022

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Kelisha B. Graves, ed.
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work has long been excluded from the literary canon. I…

Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)

August 26, 2022

Afro-Atlantic Catholics

Jeroen Dewulf
Hosted by Allison Isidore

Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversation…

Erika Bachiochi, "The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

October 12, 2021

The Rights of Women

Erika Bachiochi
Hosted by Hope J. Leman

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most important moral philosophers and political theorists ever. Her writings on liberty and equality ha…

Gregory Bourke, "Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

August 27, 2021

Gay, Catholic, and American

Gregory Bourke
Hosted by John Marszalek

Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US. In t…

Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval, "Guatemala's Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968" (U Notre Dame Press, 2018)

August 25, 2021

Guatemala's Catholic Revolution

Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick

Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval's Guatemala's Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968 (U Notre Dame Press, 2018) is an ac…

Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

August 19, 2021

Disturbing Spirits

Beverly A. Tsacoyianis
Hosted by Isabel Machado

Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon by Beverly A. Tsacoyianis (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021)…

Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

August 6, 2021

Festive Enterprise

Jill P. Ingram
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen

In Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), Dr. Jill Ingram merges the hi…

Margo Shea, "Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

July 23, 2021

Derry City

Margo Shea
Hosted by Ryan Shelton

The city that sits on the River Foyle on the North side of the Irish isle in many ways has stood as a microcosm of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, …

Diana Arbaiza, "The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity Across the Atlantic, 1875-1936" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

May 6, 2021

The Spirit of Hispanism

Diana Arbaiza
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick

In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement be…

William C. Kashatus, "William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

March 12, 2021

William Still

William C. Kashatus
Hosted by Mark Klobas

William Still looms large in the history of the Underground Railroad, both for his role coordinating the Eastern Line and the records he maintained of…

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, "Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

December 28, 2020

Ars Vitae

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a professor of history at Syracuse University. Her new book Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient A…