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NBN Episodes hosted by Carrie:

American Studies March 23, 2020

HandiLand

The Crippest Place on Earth

Elizabeth A. Wheeler

Hosted by Carrie Lane
Throughout her new book, HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth (University of Michigan Press 2019), Elizabeth A. Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how …
American Studies February 26, 2020

Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old

A Makeover for Self and Society

Kimberly Dark

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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 what it means to …
American Studies February 21, 2020

The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left

Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond

L. Benjamin Rolsky

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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 …
American Studies January 3, 2020

A History of America in 100 Maps

Susan Schulten

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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 American history, from the …
American Studies December 18, 2019

Back to America

Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement

William Westermeyer

Hosted by Carrie Lane
With his new book Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement (University of Nebraska, 2019), Professor William Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party Movement and the …
American Studies December 13, 2019

Temp

How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary

Louis Hyman

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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, and what workers …
American Studies October 22, 2019

Broke and Patriotic

Why Poor Americans Love Their Country

Francesco Duina

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In his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford University Press 2018), Professor Francesco Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love …
American Studies July 8, 2019

Collisions at the Crossroads

How Place and Mobility Make Race

Genevieve Carpio

Hosted by Carrie Lane
In her new book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019), Professor Genevieve Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the …
American Studies June 13, 2019

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman

A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century

Matilda Rabinowitz

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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 preserve their family’s …
American Studies May 6, 2019

The Resonance of Unseen Things

Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

Susan Lepselter

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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 is true …
American Studies January 28, 2019

Cultures@SiliconValley

Second Edition

Jan English-Lueck

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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. Imagine the challenge, then, when …
American Studies January 16, 2019

Grateful Nation

Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus

Ellen Moore

Hosted by Carrie Lane
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 ROTC, a newly remodeled Veterans Resource …
American Studies December 6, 2018

Mexicans in Alaska

An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life

Sara Komarnisky

Hosted by Carrie Lane
“There are Mexicans in Alaska?” This was the response Sara Komarnisky heard repeatedly when describing her research on three generations of transnational migrants who divide their time between Anchorage, Alaska …