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About Lilian Calles Barger
Lilian Calles Barger is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina and immigrated with her parents as a child. She holds a Ph.D. in Humanities/History of Ideas from the University of Texas at Dallas and currently works as an independent scholar. She speaks and writes for a scholarly and general audience and is the author of two trade books on women and religion. Oxford University Press published her book The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology in 2018 selected as one of that year's best books by the African American Intellectual History Society. She has appeared in Women's Studies Journal, Aeon, Yes! Magazine, Christian Century, the anthology The Religious Left in Modern America: Doorkeepers of a Radical Faith (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), and online venues including U.S. Intellectual History, Black Perspectives, Black Agenda Report, American Religion, and Political Theology. Her expertise is in the relationship between religion/theology and modernity, social thought, women, and gender. She is currently writing a history of feminism through the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir and is a podcast host for the New Books Network. She lives in Taos, NM.Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her most recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her current writing project is on the cultural and intellectual history of women and the origins of feminism seen through the emblematic life and work of Simone de Beauvoir.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lilian:
February 27, 2026
Man Up
The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West--from an interna…
November 14, 2025
Backroom Deals in Our Backyards
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to …
October 17, 2025
The Power of Adrienne Rich
A major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and ma…
September 6, 2025
Spellbound
Everyone feels it. Cultural and political life in America has become unrecognizable and strange. Firebrands and would-be sages have taken the place of…
August 3, 2025
Something Between Us
In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. …
January 5, 2025
Crystal Eastman
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her …
January 6, 2024
The Wollstonecraftian Mind
Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame and co-editor with Sandrine Berges and Alan Coffee of the anthology The Wollstonec…
January 5, 2024
Becoming Beauvoir
Kate Kirkpatrick is a lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Culture at King’s College London and author of Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (Bloomsbury Academ…
January 3, 2024
Feminism for the Americas
Katherine M. Marino is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an Int…
January 2, 2024
Are Men Animals?
In Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short (Basic Books, 2019), Matthew Gutmann examines how cultural expectations viewing men as viol…
July 27, 2022
How to Be Authentic
Skye C. Cleary is a philosopher, writer and university teacher. In her new book How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment …
April 26, 2022
Woman
Lillian Faderman is professor emerita at California State University, Fresno. An award-winning author Dr Faderman, widely known as the mother of lesbi…
October 22, 2021
Portraits of Wollstonecraft
Eileen Hunt Botting is a Professor political science at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Botting is a widely published and cited scholar on the thoug…
July 23, 2021
Beauvoir in Time
Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its historica…
February 19, 2021
Margaret Mead
Elesha J. Coffman's Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith (Oxford UP, 2021) takes a careful look at Mead’s religious origins and influence. As a fa…
December 28, 2020
Ars Vitae
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…
October 23, 2020
The Angel in the Marketplace
Ellen Wayland-Smith is an associate professor of writing at University of Southern California. Her book The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wad…
August 19, 2020
They Didn’t See Us Coming
Lisa Levenstein is the Director of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and an associate professor of history at the University of North …
September 18, 2019
Household Gods
Sara Georgini is a historian and series editor for The Papers of John Adams at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Household Gods: The Religious Liv…
July 2, 2019
Young William James Thinking
Paul J. Croce, professor of history at Stetson University. Young William James Thinking (John Hopkins University Press, 2018) offers a developmental b…
May 27, 2019
Equal under the Sky
Linda M. Grasso's Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe & Twentieth-Century Feminism (University of New Mexico Press, 2017) provides an in-depth l…
May 3, 2019
Big Sister
Erin M. Kempker is an associate professor of history at Mississippi University for Women and the author of Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism and Cons…
April 15, 2019
The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750
Christian Philip Peterson joins us today to talk about The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 (Routledge, 2018), which he co-edited with Will…
March 6, 2019
Jewish Radical Feminism
Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices fr…