October 21, 2024

Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age

Meryl Alper

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b…

October 7, 2024

Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology

Pamela O. Long

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history o…

September 23, 2024

AI Hype

Emily M. Bender

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics pr…

September 9, 2024

Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System

Raquel Velho

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Raquel Velho, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a…

August 26, 2024

On the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers

Cyrus Mody

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the STS Progra…

August 12, 2024

One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America

Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Waterhouse, full-as-full-can- be Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Chapel H…

July 29, 2024

Asian Mobility History as Labor History

Kate McDonald

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascin…

July 15, 2024

Middle Tech, Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough

Paula Bialski

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen,…

June 24, 2024

The Labor History of Energy Systems

Trish Kahle

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University-Qatar, about Kahle's new project, "Po…

June 17, 2024

danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life

danah boyd

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the Data & Society Research Institute, an…

June 3, 2024

Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure

Jennifer Hart

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks to Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Virginia Tech, about her work on the history…

May 27, 2024

Disrupting Academic Bullying

Bryan Hanson

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Bryan Hanson, ombudsperson for Virginia Tech's Graduate School, about a program he developed called Disrup…

May 6, 2024

MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair

MC Forelle

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MC Forelle, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Society at the School of Engineering and Applied Scien…

April 22, 2024

Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More

Asif Siddiqi

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-rangi…

April 8, 2024

Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards

Sean H. Vanatta

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with historian and standup comedian, Sean Vanatta, lecturer in economic and social history at the University …

April 2, 2024

Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World

Guru Madhavan

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Guru Madhavan, Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs at the National Academ…

March 25, 2024

Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI

John Warner

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner …

March 18, 2024

Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling

Xaq Frohlich

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, about his new book, From Label to Table…

March 11, 2024

Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World

Zachary Loeb

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Are you into the end of the world? Well, have we got the guest for you. In this episode, Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel interviews Zachary Loeb, ass…

March 4, 2024

Robert Charette on Researching the Material World

Robert Charette

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

In this episode, Peoples & Thing host Lee Vinsel interviews engineer, businessman, consultant, author, contributing editor at IEEE Magazine, and forme…