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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 May 30, 2023

Night Vision

Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods

Mariana Alessandri

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast May 15, 2023

Period

The Real Story of Menstruation

Kate Clancy

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 24, 2023

Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die

Poems

Tawanda Mulalu

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die (Princeton UP, 2022) explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 15, 2023

Parfit

A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

David Edmonds

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 1, 2023

When Eero Met His Match

Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect

Eva Hagberg

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Aline B. Louchheim (1914-1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast March 26, 2023

Healing Hearts and Minds

A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease

Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. With great advances in surgery and medicine, however, survival rates have improved by 75% since the …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast March 20, 2023

Just as Deadly

The Psychology of Female Serial Killers

Marissa A. Harrison

Hosted by Mark Klobas
You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast March 15, 2023

Gods and Mortals

Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers

Sarah Iles Johnston

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of powerful forces beyond human control …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast March 9, 2023

New Orleans

A Writer's City

T. R. Johnson

Hosted by Mark Klobas
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast March 1, 2023

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism

Lerone A. Martin

Hosted by Mark Klobas
On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast February 24, 2023

Serving Herself

The Life and Times of Althea Gibson

Ashley Brown

Hosted by Mark Klobas
From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast February 15, 2023

The Influencer Industry

The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media

Emily Hund

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry: The Quest …
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 …