About Christopher Babits

NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:

Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (MIT Press, 2020)

July 8, 2024

Contraception

Donna Drucker

The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding o…

John F. Marszalek III, "Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi Press, 2020)

September 2, 2020

Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet

John F. Marszalek III

In Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), John F. Marszalek III shares conversati…

Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy" (Columbia UP, 2020)

August 5, 2020

Brain Magnet

Alex Sayf Cummings

Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage econ…

Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

July 29, 2020

Newest Born of Nations

Ann Tucker

From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical rol…

Hilde Løvdal Stephens, "Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home" (U Alabama Press, 2019)

June 18, 2020

Family Matters

Hilde Løvdal Stephens

Dr. Hilde Løvdal Stephens is a Visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her first book is titled Family Matt…

Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Nations" (Cornell UP, 2020)

June 9, 2020

To Bring the Good News to All Nations

Lauren Turek

Lauren Turek is an Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her doctorate from the University of Virgini…

Taylor Petrey, "Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism" (UNC Press, 2020)

June 9, 2020

Tabernacles of Clay

Taylor Petrey

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 T…

Abram Van Engen, "City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism" (Yale UP, 2020)

May 7, 2020

City on a Hill

Abram Van Engen

Abram Van Engen is an Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Van Engen’s research examines early American literature, t…

Benjamin E. Park, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier" (Norton, 2020)

April 2, 2020

Kingdom of Nauvoo

Benjamin E. Park

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 …

Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

December 5, 2019

Bodies in Blue

Sarah Handley-Cousins

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 Ge…