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About Jessie Cohen
NBN Episodes hosted by Jessie:
November 15, 2025
Anteaesthetics
In Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford UP, 2023), Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be …
October 2, 2025
1,000 Episodes with Miranda Melcher
This episode marks a milestone for NBN host Dr. Miranda Melcher - 1,000 NBN interviews! This episode is a little different because she sits in the gue…
September 24, 2025
Headstrong
Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, i…
April 18, 2025
The World Was in Our Hands
The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict (Cassava Republic Press, 2025) is a moving, often provocative, and ultimately vital co…
March 30, 2025
The Common Core of European Administrative Laws
Though European administrative laws have gained global significance in the last few decades, research which provides both theoretical analysis and ori…
March 23, 2025
The Tropical Turn
The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean (University of California Press, 2023) chronicles the earl…
March 14, 2025
Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rap…
February 22, 2025
Poverty and Wealth in East Africa
In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History (Duke UP, 2022), Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in east…
January 8, 2025
Patterns that Remain
This empowering book blends history, storytelling, and culturally grounded techniques to equip readers with the tools needed to promote self-reflectio…
December 17, 2024
James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues
In James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues (Oxford University Press, 2024), Tom Jenks follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the patter…
December 15, 2024
Seductive Spirits
In this fascinating interview, Nathanael J. Homewood discusses his new book,Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian…
December 15, 2024
Gender History
Antoinette Burton's Gender History: A Very Short Introduction introduces the field of gender history--its origins, development, reception, recalibrati…
December 3, 2024
Abortion Pills
In this compelling and informative interview, Carrie N. Baker discusses her newest book, Abortion Pills: US History and Politics (Amherst College Pres…