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About Mark Klobas

I'm a history instructor at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona. I earned my BA in History from the University of Arizona, and my MA and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Mark:

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast February 1, 2023

What Do You Want Out of Life?

A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters

Valerie Tiberius

Hosted by Mark Klobas
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money--or work for justice? To run marathons--or sing in a choir? To have children--or travel the world? The …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast January 29, 2023

This Is Not Who We Are

America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue

Zachary Shore

Hosted by Mark Klobas
What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast January 17, 2023

The Wife of Bath

A Biography

Marion Turner

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers--from Shakespeare to James …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast December 28, 2022

What the Thunder Said

How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern

Jed Rasula

Hosted by Mark Klobas
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast December 15, 2022

Data Driven

Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

Karen Levy

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, sharing a …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 28, 2022

Back to the Moon

The Next Giant Leap for Humankind

Joseph Silk

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 15, 2022

The Sounds of Life

How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

Karen Bakker

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast November 10, 2022

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village

Stephen G. Rabe

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 1, 2022

Complicit

How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

Max H. Bazerman

Hosted by Mark Klobas
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 17, 2022

Spiderweb Capitalism

How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets

Kimberly Kay Hoang

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 14, 2022

How to Say No

An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism

M. D. Usher, ed.

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered "No!" Diogenes, the most famous Cynic …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast October 13, 2022

Does Scripture Speak for Itself?

The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation

Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast October 10, 2022

Kutuzov

A Life in War and Peace

Alexander Mikaberidze

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast October 3, 2022

Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World

Bob Brier

Hosted by Mark Klobas
It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo …
Ancient History September 29, 2022

Making Money in Ancient Athens

Michael Leese

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to approach their economic affairs in a rational manner like modern individuals? Since the nineteenth century, many scholars …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast September 26, 2022

The Aesthetic Cold War

Decolonization and Global Literature

Peter J. Kalliney

Hosted by Mark Klobas
How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature (Princeton UP, 2022), Peter Kalliney explores the …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast August 22, 2022

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

Gene Andrew Jarrett

Hosted by Mark Klobas
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast August 17, 2022

Rome

Strategy of Empire

James Lacey

Hosted by Mark Klobas
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years -- an impressive number by any standard …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast August 8, 2022

Sonorous Desert

What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us

Kim Haines-Eitzen

Hosted by Mark Klobas
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast August 4, 2022

Nimitz at War

Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

Craig L. Symonds

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast August 1, 2022

Earthopolis

A Biography of Our Urban Planet

Carl H. Nightingale

Hosted by Mark Klobas
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast July 1, 2022

The Secret Body

How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live

Daniel M. Davis

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast June 24, 2022

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws

And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities

Adrienne Mayor

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights--glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth--embedded in myth, legends …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast June 15, 2022

The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses

The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes

James Joyce and Catherine Flynn (ed.)

Hosted by Mark Klobas
James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published …