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NBN Episodes hosted by Carrie:
March 23, 2020
HandiLand
Throughout her new book, HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth (University of Michigan Press 2019), Elizabeth A. Wheeler uses a fictional place calle…
February 26, 2020
Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old
In her new book Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old: A Makeover for Self and Society (AK Press 2019), sociologist and storyteller Kimberly Dark considers …
February 21, 2020
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left
As someone who grew up watching All in the Family and Sanford and Son, I’ve long been familiar with Norman Lear and his work. What I didn’t know, as a…
January 3, 2020
A History of America in 100 Maps
In her new book A History of America in 100 Maps (University of Chicago Press 2018), historian Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of A…
December 18, 2019
Back to America
With his new book Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement (University of Nebraska, 2019), Professor William Westermey…
December 13, 2019
Temp
It has become a truism that work has become less secure and more precarious for a widening swath of American workers. Why and how this has happened, a…
October 22, 2019
Broke and Patriotic
In his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford University Press 2018), Professor Francesco Duina asks why impov…
July 8, 2019
Collisions at the Crossroads
In her new book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019), Professor Genevieve Carpio con…
June 13, 2019
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
It’s quite common these days to hear young people being urged to collect and record the stories of their grandparents or parents in order to learn and…
May 6, 2019
The Resonance of Unseen Things
When we talk about stories of alien abduction in the United States, we often do so through a framework of belief vs. disbelief. Do I think this story …
January 28, 2019
Cultures@SiliconValley
Silicon Valley is understood to be one of the most fast-paced regions on earth, where innovation and upheaval are part and parcel of daily life. Imagi…
January 16, 2019
Grateful Nation
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus—through the RO…
December 6, 2018
Mexicans in Alaska
“There are Mexicans in Alaska?” This was the response Sara Komarnisky heard repeatedly when describing her research on three generations of transnatio…