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Equanimity and Abraham from 2023-10-26T08:00
In this episode, Modya and David dive into Lekh Lekha, the Torah portion in which the story of the patriarch Abraham begins to unfold, and consider what lessons this narrative holds for developing ...
ListenOn Queer and Feminist Religious Studies from 2022-03-11T09:00
Melissa M. Wilcox received her doctorate in Religious Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2000. Her transdisciplinary research program focuses on gender studies and queer studies in religion, with p...
ListenOn Indigenous American Religion from 2022-03-01T09:00
Dennis Kelley is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He received his Master’s and Doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with e...
ListenEric D. Loepp et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) from 2022-01-13T09:00
Political Scientists Daniel Mallinson (Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg), Julia Marin Hellwege (University of South Dakota), and Eric Loepp (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) have assembl...
ListenMichel Boivin, "The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India: The Case of Sindh (1851-1929) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by Michel Boivin maps the construction of a vernacular knowle...
ListenKatja M. Guenther, "The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals" (Stanford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with marginalized humans and a...
ListenAudrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic" (UNC Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Audrey Horning revisits the fraught connections between Ireland and colonial Virgini...
ListenArlene Davila, "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics" (Duke UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke UP, 2020), Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and ar...
ListenDavid Vine, "The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State" (U California Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years. Across nearly two-and-a-half centuries, that’s a lot of war. In his new book, The United States of War: A Global Histo...
ListenJo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study" (Routledge, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this interview of Jo Mackiewicz, author of Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study (Routledge 2018). We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and...
ListenFrederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (UP of Mississippi, 2020), Frederick Luis Aldama brings together comics scholars Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin,...
ListenT. C. F. Stunt, "The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles: A Forgotten Scholar" (Springer, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For the sixty years in which he has made a distinguished contribution to the religious history of the nineteenth century, Timothy Stunt has been working on the life and times of Samuel Prideaux Tre...
ListenS. F. C. Daly, "A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian ...
ListenMegan Harlan, "Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays" (U Georgia Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Home is the place many of us have spent our days for the last eight months. During the pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, our classrooms, and our social spaces through apps like Zoom. ...
ListenLindsay Farmer, "Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order" (Oxford UP, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his latest book, Professor Lindsay Farmer offers a historical and conceptual analysis of theories of criminalization. The book shows how criminalization is inextricably linked to the making of t...
ListenShould I Quit My Ph.D. Program? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our own mentor networks to bring you podcasts on everything from how to f...
ListenKevin O'Leary, "Madison's Sorrow: Today's War on the Founders and America's Liberal Ideal" (Pegasus Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The story of America is the struggle between our liberal ideal and illiberal resistance. Donald Trump catalyzed a reactionary revolution by tapping into the dark, shadowy side of American democracy...
ListenSujit Sivasundaram, "Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire" (William Collins, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins, 2020), Sujit Sivasundaram brings together far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research....
ListenDaniel Deudney, "Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. The Trump Administration has created a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expens...
ListenMichael M. Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage" (UNC Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage by Michael Muhammad Knight (UNC Press, 2020) joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and mate...
ListenAmy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World" (Scribner, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“To mother, from Tsuneno (confidential). I’m writing with spring greetings. I went to Kanda Minagawa-ch? in Edo—quite unexpectedly—and I ended up in so much trouble!” This letter, hidden in an arch...
ListenChristophe Morin, "The Serenity Code: How Brain Plasticity Helps You Live Without Stress, Anxiety, and Depression (SAD)" (Depth Insights, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his book The Serenity Code: How Brain Plasticity Helps You Live Without Stress, Anxiety and Depression (SAD) (Depth Insights, 2020), Christophe Morin explains how you can rewire your brains to e...
ListenAnne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired ...
ListenJulius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Julius Margolin was a Polish Jew caught between the twin 1939 invasions of Poland by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent the years 1940-1945 in Soviet labor camps, finally returning to his fam...
ListenSoutheast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity and China’s Soft Power: A Discussion with Dr Josh Stenberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chinese comm...
ListenLucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Lucas A. Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures to...
ListenStephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe" (U Washington Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies. ...
ListenLaura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch" (Yale UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Most people recognize that the internet is growing at an exponential rate. But few have thought as deeply as Laura DeNardis, a Professor and Interim Dean at the School of Communication at American ...
ListenRonald Grigor Suny, "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ronald Suny’s recent biography of the young Stalin, Stalin: Passage to Revolution (Princeton UP, 2020) covers “Soso” Jughashvili’s life up to the 1917 Revolution. Suny provides a wealth of detail a...
ListenS. J. Hartland, "The 19th Bladesman" (Dark Blade, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A rich and complex world of sword-wielding fighters and seductive sorceresses, written in percussive, lyrical prose. The 19th Bladesman (Dark Blade, 2018) first introduces us to Kaell, the eponymou...
ListenJoanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
While it has often been recognized that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of political thinki...
ListenV. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works" (SUNY Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazi...
ListenKen Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy Land...
ListenMark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford University Press, 2020) tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize. The first...
ListenAlfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alfred S. Posamentier's The Joy of Geometry (Prometheus, 2020) is a book for someone who has taken geometry but wants to go further. This book, as one might expect, is heavy on diagrams and it is s...
ListenKevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his new book, We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America (Oxford UP, 2020), Kevin Mattson documents punk rock in the early 1980s through a c...
ListenRichard Muller, "Grace and Freedom: William Perkins and the Early Modern Reformed Understanding of Free Choice and Divine Grace" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
No-one has done more than Richard A. Muller to shape our approach to early modern historical theology. His earlier work, and most especially the four volumes of his Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmat...
ListenC. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency, our capacity to set goals and pursue them. In Game...
ListenSarah Wisseman, "The Botticelli Caper" (Wings ePress, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Botticelli Caper (Wings ePress, 2019) is set at the Uffizi Galleries during a period, not long ago, when workmen were constantly coming in and out during massive amounts of reconstruction. Flor...
ListenJeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution" (NYU Press, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over? On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Dr. Jeremy Matthew...
ListenJill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania" (Berghahn, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode, we meet Dr. Jill Massino, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina who is fascinated researching everyday life under dictatorships. We discuss her firs...
ListenPilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action" (Shambala, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking. Challenged by t...
ListenKevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people...
ListenKelly Underman, "Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training" (NYU Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a...
ListenMatthew Hart, "Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020) explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space that goes beyond the limits of...
ListenBeth Kurland, "Dancing on the Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life" (Wellbridge Books, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If life can feel at times like a challenging tightrope walk, how do we face life's difficulties yet remain resilient and open-hearted? Rather than seeking "perfect" balance, or tiptoeing on our jou...
ListenTobias Harris, "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan" (Hurst, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Abe Shinz? is seen today through many lenses: as the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Japan; as a pragmatic leader with a consistent policy vision and a commitment to the art of sta...
ListenJulie Gibbings, "Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala" (Cambridge UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is an ambitious exploration of modernity, history, and time in post-colonial Guatemala. Set in the Q...
ListenJeremy Black, "Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures" (Indiana UP, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What if there had been no World War I, or no Russian Revolution? Or if the German Spring Offensive of 1918 had succeeded? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not n...
ListenNiklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution" (U California Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights. In The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age o...
ListenBetty Rojtman, "The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the...
ListenJulia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing" (UNC Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this chronologically and thematically ambitious study of racial passing literature, Julia Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that ...
ListenJames Staples, "Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India" (U Washington Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to co...
ListenChristine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militaris...
ListenThe Work and Value of University Presses from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse? November 9 is the beginning of University Press Week, and today I had the honor of talking to Niko Pfund, the preside...
ListenLisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polity, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“The key element shaping inequality is no longer the employment relationship but rather whether one is able to buy assets that appreciate at a faster rate than both inflation and wages”. So argue L...
ListenR. H. Helmholz, "Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice" (Harvard UP, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
R. H. Helmholz's book Natural Law in Court (Harvard UP, 2015) serves as a guide to the uses of natural law in the past. It shows how lawyers, judges and jurists used natural law to reason and argue...
ListenJon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ibn Taymiyya is one of the most prolific and influential Islamic thinkers to date, and was even the only pre-modern Muslim author cited in the 9/11 Report. His supporters and detractors alike have ...
ListenPedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds" (Ohio UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Ohio University Press, 2020), co-edited by Pedro Machado, Joseph Christensen, Steve Mullins) is the first book to examine the trade, dis...
ListenCaroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain and analyses the implications of their experiences...
ListenZainab Saleh, "Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia" (Stanford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford UP, 2020) tells ...
ListenStefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean" (U Illinois Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and de...
ListenRebekah Taussig, "Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body" (HarperOne, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body ...
ListenUma Majmudar, “Gandhi and Rajchandra: The Making of the Mahatma” (Lexington Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This book traces the little-known yet unparalleled influence of Shrimad Rajchandra, Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker, on Mahatma Gandhi. In examining original Gujarati writings of both G...
ListenBilly Coleman, "Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788-1865" (UNC Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
CAN you hear the people sing? Political music is often understood as the property of the common people, used as a potent (and noisy) weapon against the interests of the powerful. This is particular...
ListenK. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée ...
ListenSteven M. Ortiz, "The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work" (U Illinois Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Steven M. Ortiz’ new book The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work (University of Illinois Press, 2020) offers an in-depth analysis of and perceive insight into what is means to be an athlete’s w...
ListenMegan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theater of Optimism and Honesty" (3rd Thing Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theater of Optimism & Honesty (3rd Thing Press, 2020) makes a powerful case for “militant optimism” in an age of chaos. The essays in this ...
ListenChas Smith, "Cocaine and Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Love Affair" (Rare Bird, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Surfers are the ultimate bad boys, living the counter-culture life of decadence and hedonism as they travel the world in search of the perfect wave, partying hard along the way. So, it’s not surpri...
ListenJohn Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John Tolan’s latest book Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton UP, 2019) is a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perception...
ListenJohn Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U of South Carolina Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference cha...
ListenJamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Are robots going to be our overlords? In Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (RosettaBooks, 2020), Jamie Merisotis says they don't have to be. We can make them our friends. Jamie Merisotis is a...
ListenTera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discrimin...
ListenErica Marat, "The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries" (Oxford UP, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In her book, The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press, 2018), Erica Marat provides an answer to a very important question: “What do...
ListenJohn Durham Peters, "Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History" (U Chicago Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news,...
ListenLawrence Osborne, "The Glass Kingdom" (Hogarth, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah Mullins, an American woman, arrives at the Kingdom: a fading luxury apartment complex in Bangkok. She is there to lay low, after passing over forged collectors’ items in Hong Kong. She meets ...
ListenIntroduction to 'The Academic Life' Podcast from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you’re not an island, and neither are we. So, we are reaching across our own contacts – and beyond - to bring you podcasts on everything...
ListenEwald Nowotny, "Money and Life" (Braumüller Verlag, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy in US history - so triggering a global...
ListenKoritha Mitchell, "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Koritha Mitchell, Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, has written a complex, interdisciplinary, and important analysis focusing on black women as the lens to explore the in...
ListenWalker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel" (U Alabama Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel (University of Alabama Press, 2020), Walker Robins explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the “Palestine que...
ListenIan Foster, "Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas" (UP of Mississippi, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas (UP of Mississippi, 2019) author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent q...
ListenEric Rutkow, "The Longest Line on the Map The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas" (Scribner, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his book The Longest Line on the Map The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas (Scribner, 2019), Professor Eric Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-lon...
ListenCraig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable? The four canonical Gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus’s life. The authors of these Gospels were intentional in how they handled hi...
ListenConnor Towne O’Neill, "Down Along with That Devil’s Bones" (Algonquin Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Down Along with That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy (Algonquin Books, 2020), journalist Connor Towne O’Neill takes a deep dive into American...
ListenMichelle Cameron, "Beyond the Ghetto Gates" (She Writes Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The intense interest in the horrors of World War II that has characterized the last few years has tended to overshadow other aspects of the long history of Jewish populations in Europe and the anti...
ListenRachel Genn, "What You Could Have Won" (And Other Stories, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After Henry Sinclair’s supervisor steals his research, he tries to rejuvenate his career by turning his girlfriend into a drug experiment. Astrid is a rising young singer. From her New York City ap...
ListenAnthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World" (Part 2) (Routledge, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This is the second episode of a two-part conversation with Hodgson, and in it we pick up our conversation on anticipatory systems and the role they play in ‘decision integrity’. Hodgson then talks ...
ListenAndrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. It is beloved by consumers in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and it comes in a bewildering array of varieties: from the che...
ListenJennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945" (MIT Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of le...
ListenHugh Raffles, "The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time" (Pantheon Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
At once an examination of geology, a biography of monuments, and a meditation on the connection between personal loss and massive loss, Hugh Raffles’ The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Los...
ListenDavid S. Nasca, "The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898 to 1945" (Naval Institute Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Amphibious warfare, as outlined by American Rear Admiral James E. Jouett in 1885, was a relatively straightforward affair: to project power from the sea, all one had to do was offload soldiers, ani...
ListenThomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany p...
ListenSujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” (University of Hawaii Press, 2020) is a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist tr...
ListenSilvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What is an art school? In Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Dr Silvie Jacobi, a researcher and head of education at London School...
ListenK. A. Lieber and D. G. Press, "The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age" (Cornell UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age (Cornell University Press, 2020), Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persist...
ListenKathryn A. Mariner, "Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States" (U California Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States (University of California Press, 2019) offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through the inner ...
ListenMichael Q. Morton, "Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar" (Reaktion Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
History is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of young, energy-rich monarchies of the Gulf that often punch above their weight in geopolitics and geoeconomics. Yet, that is the ...
ListenAnnapurna Garimella, “The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History” (Marg Foundation, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Contemporary Hindu temples raise aesthetic, economic, political and philosophical questions about the role of architecture in making a place for the sacred in society. This book presents the Hindu ...
ListenZakkiyah Imam Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction...
ListenGrégory Quin, "Des Réseaux et des Hommes: Participation et Contribution de la Suisse à l’Internationalisation du Sport (1912-1972)" (Éditions Alphil, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today we are joined by Grégory Quin, maître d’enseignement et de recherche à l’Institut des sciences du sport de l’Université de Lausanne, and he is the author and editor of Des Réseaux et des Homm...
ListenSarah Longair, "Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964" (Routledge, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or P...
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