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African American Studies June 9, 2020

Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies

A Discussion with Adam McNeil

Neil Roberts

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Where do good ideas come from? How does an idea go from creation to a research project? How is historical research done? And how does research find its way into a finished book? And what impact can a book have? Today, I discuss these topics and more with my colleague and friend Dr. Neil Roberts. Dr. Roberts teaches Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College …
African American Studies June 8, 2020

Being Property Once Myself

Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020) …
African American Studies May 28, 2020

Presumed Criminal

Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York

Carl Suddler

Hosted by Adam McNeil
A stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When …
Caribbean Studies May 27, 2020

The Yellow Demon of Fever

Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade

Manuel Barcia

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 21, 2020

The Futurist Files

Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930

Iva Glisic

Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could …
African American Studies May 19, 2020

John Hervey Wheeler

Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights

Brandon K. Winford

Hosted by Adam McNeil
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for …
Anthropology May 13, 2020

Uncommon Anthropologist

Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture

Nancy Mattina

Hosted by Alex Golub
Protégé of Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas, founder and head of Barnard College's anthropology department, and a trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one …
African American Studies April 28, 2020

Slavery and the University

Histories and Legacies

Leslie M. Harris

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of …
African American Studies April 7, 2020

Tacky's Revolt

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Vincent Brown

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while …
Buddhist Studies April 2, 2020

From the Fifty Jātaka

Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka

Dr. Chris Baker and Prof. Pasuk Phongpaichit

Hosted by Alex Carroll
The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in …
General History March 26, 2020

On Trial for Reason

Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair

Maurice Finocchiaro

Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
In his new book On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair (Oxford University Press, 2019), Maurice Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two …
African American Studies March 9, 2020

AfroAm Studies Roundtable

Robert Greene and Tyler Parry on Becoming Historians

Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent …
Anthropology March 2, 2020

Talking Like Children

Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands

Elise Berman

Hosted by Alex Golub
Since World War II, the fate of the Marshal Islands has been tied to the United States. The Marshalls were a site of military testing, host a US military base …
African American Studies February 21, 2020

Hiding in Plain Sight

Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic

Erika Denise Edwards

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Argentina promotes itself as a country of European immigrants. This makes it an exception to other Latin American countries, which embrace a more mixed—African, Indian, European—heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight …
African American Studies February 17, 2020

Pleasure Activism

The Politics of Feeling Good

adrienne maree brown

Hosted by Adrian King
In the introduction to Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (AK Press, 2019), adrienne maree brown defines pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy …
Caribbean Studies February 4, 2020

Queering Black Atlantic Religions

Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

Roberto Strongman

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Duke University Press, 2019), Roberto Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious …
Buddhist Studies January 16, 2020

Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns

Biographies as History

Dr. Alice Collett

Hosted by Alex Carroll
Dr. Alice Collett’s monograph Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History (Oxford University Press, 2016) delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of …
Caribbean Studies January 9, 2020

Aerial Imagination in Cuba

Stories from Above the Rooftops

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
In her new book Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops (Routledge, 2019), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier looks up at the sky, and from there she begins her stories about …
Caribbean Studies December 12, 2019

In the Forests of Freedom

The Fighting Maroons of Dominica

Lennox Honychurch

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries. Dominica’s unusual history of a relatively brief period of colonization and few sugar plantations shaped a history …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 11, 2019

From Chernobyl with Love

Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

Katya Cengel

Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) is an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences …