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About Christopher Babits

NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:

Gender Studies September 2, 2020

Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet

Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi

John F. Marszalek III

Hosted by Christopher Babits
In Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), John F. Marszalek III shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural …
Medicine August 6, 2020

Contraception

A Concise History

Donna Drucker

Hosted by Christopher Babits
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical …
General History August 5, 2020

Brain Magnet

Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy

Alex Sayf Cummings

Hosted by Christopher Babits
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham …
General History July 29, 2020

Newest Born of Nations

European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy

Ann Tucker

Hosted by Christopher Babits
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern …
American Studies June 18, 2020

Family Matters

James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home

Hilde Løvdal Stephens

Hosted by Christopher Babits
Dr. Hilde Løvdal Stephens is a Visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her first book is titled Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the …
Christian Studies June 9, 2020

To Bring the Good News to All Nations

Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations

Lauren Turek

Hosted by Christopher Babits
Lauren Turek is an Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her doctorate from the University of Virginia in 2015 and holds a degree …
Gender Studies June 9, 2020

Tabernacles of Clay

Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

Taylor Petrey

Hosted by Christopher Babits
Taylor Petrey is an Associate Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College and the Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. His latest book is Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and …
American Studies May 7, 2020

City on a Hill

A History of American Exceptionalism

Abram Van Engen

Hosted by Christopher Babits
Abram Van Engen is an Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Van Engen’s research examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and …
General History April 2, 2020

Kingdom of Nauvoo

The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

Benjamin E. Park

Hosted by Christopher Babits
In Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (W. W. Norton, 2020), Benjamin E. Park, an assistant professor at Sam Houston State …
General History December 5, 2019

Bodies in Blue

Disability in the Civil War North

Sarah Handley-Cousins

Hosted by Christopher Babits
All wars, in a practical sense, center on the destruction of the human body, and in Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (University of Georgia Press, 2019) …