About Kishauna Soljour

My general interests include: public + digital humanities, art, oral history, human rights and material culture.

Kishauna Soljour, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Public Humanities at San Diego State University. She can be reached at ksoljour@sdsu.edu and on LinkedIn.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Kishauna:

John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)

July 5, 2025

The Carceral City

John Bardes
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 (UNC Press, 2024) reveals that Americans often assume that s…

Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)

May 2, 2025

The Black Utopians

Aaron Robertson
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in …

Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)

February 6, 2025

Nat Turner, Black Prophet

Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on whic…

Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 21, 2024

Reluctant Race Men

Joan L. Bryant
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing…

Jake Lamar, "Viper's Dream" (Crooked Lane Books, 2023)

August 30, 2024

Viper's Dream

Jake Lamar
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

Jake Lamar's novel Viper's Dream (Crooked Lane Books, 2023) is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man’s dr…

Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan, "1/6, The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol had Succeeded?" (Sun Print Solutions, 2023)

May 26, 2024

1/6, The Graphic Novel

Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

What if the January 6, 2021 Insurrection had been successful? A tale of what was, what could have been, and what still could be? 1/6: The Graphic Nov…

Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 17, 2024

Patchwork Freedoms

Adriana Chira
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative p…

Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)

May 15, 2024

Bounds of Blackness

Christopher Tounsel
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

Christopher Tounsel's book Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell UP, 2024) explores the history of Bl…