Peoples & Places

African Studies

African Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.

Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Soldier's Paradise

Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)

November 9, 2024

Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire

Amín Pérez
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
African American Studies

African American Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of African America about their new books.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

November 14, 2024

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson
American Politics

American Politics

episodes

Interviews with scholars of American politics about their new books.

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Changed Men

Erin Lee Mock
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election

November 14, 2024

Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election

Julia Azari, Jonathan Bernstein, Meena Bose, Daniel E. Ponder
Hosted by Susan Liebell
American Studies

American Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Changed Men

Erin Lee Mock
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
American South

American South

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the American South about their new books.

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

November 14, 2024

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson
Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17

November 8, 2024

Texas Book Festival 2024

Hannah Gabel
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
American West

American West

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the American West about their new books.

Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)

October 19, 2024

Hispano Bastion

Michael J. Alarid
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

October 17, 2024

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks
Asian American Studies

Asian American Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Asian America about about their new books.

Phuc Tran, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In" (Flatiron Books, 2020)

November 2, 2024

Sigh, Gone

Phuc Tran
Hosted by Gregory Soden
Jackie Wang, "Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood" (Semiotext(e), 2023)

October 14, 2024

Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun

Jackie Wang
Hosted by Rachel Pafe
Australian and New Zealand Studies

Australian and New Zealand Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Australia and New Zealand about their new books.

Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)

October 22, 2024

Behavioural Public Policy in Australia

Sarah Ball
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Jane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)

October 15, 2024

Anti-Slavery and Australia

Jane Lydon
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
British Studies

British Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the United Kingdom about their new books.

Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 12, 2024

Women on Philosophy of Art

Alison Stone
Canadian Studies

Canadian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Canada about their new books.

Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

October 30, 2024

Hessians

Friederike Baer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)

October 14, 2024

Tecumseh's War

Donald R. Hickey
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Caribbean Studies

Caribbean Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.

Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

November 6, 2024

The Suicide Archive

Doyle D. Calhoun
Hosted by Sarah Miles
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas

Nicolas Delsol
Hosted by Sarah Newman
Central Asian Studies

Central Asian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Central Asia about their new books.

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Reflections on Stalinism

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Hosted by Alisa Kuzmina
Ali Igmen, "Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2012)

November 13, 2024

Speaking Soviet with an Accent

Ali Igmen
Hosted by Alisa Kuzmina
Chinese Studies

Chinese Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of China about their new books.

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

From Click to Boom

Lizhi Liu
Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Meta-Practice with Volker Scheid

November 11, 2024

Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)

Volker Scheid
Hosted by Pierce Salguero
East Asian Studies

East Asian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of East Asia about their new books.

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

From Click to Boom

Lizhi Liu
Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

November 7, 2024

Backstage in Hong Kong

John Duffus
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Eastern European Studies

Eastern European Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Eastern Europe about their new books.

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Reflections on Stalinism

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Hosted by Alisa Kuzmina
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Protecting Democracy in Europe

Tom Theuns
Hosted by Tim Jones
European Politics

European Politics

episodes

Interview with scholars of modern European politics about their new books.

Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Protecting Democracy in Europe

Tom Theuns
Hosted by Tim Jones
Graham Brady, "Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers" (Ithaka, 2024)

November 4, 2024

Kingmaker

Graham Brady
French Studies

French Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of France about their new books.

Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)

November 14, 2024

The Ethnographic Optic

Laure Astourian
Hosted by Arya Rani
Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)

November 9, 2024

Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire

Amín Pérez
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
German Studies

German Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Germany about their new books.

Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Historical Turns

Nicholas Baer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge

November 15, 2024

Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge

Clara Holzinger
Hosted by Ingrid Piller
Iberian Studies

Iberian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Iberia about their new books

Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 5, 2024

A Third Path

Melissa Teixeira
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

October 23, 2024

The Librarian's Atlas

Seth Kimmel
Hosted by Jana Byars
India Studies

India Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of India about their new books.

Robert M. Geraci, "Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2021)

January 5, 2023

Futures of Artificial Intelligence

Robert M. Geraci
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)

October 14, 2022

Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization

Sandeep Banerjee
Hosted by Gargi Binju
Indian Ocean World

Indian Ocean World

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the Indian Ocean World about their new books.

Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)

November 15, 2024

The Pulse of the Earth

Adam Bobbette
Hosted by Michele Ford
Iranian Studies

Iranian Studies

episodes

Interviews with authors about their new books in Iranian and Persian studies.

Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)

October 23, 2024

What Iranians Want

Arash Azizi
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)

October 22, 2024

Zainab's Traffic

Emrah Yildiz
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Irish Studies

Irish Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Ireland about their new books.

Jennifer Mooney, "Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction" (Routledge, 2022)

September 28, 2024

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature

Jennifer Mooney
Hosted by Helen Penet
Israel Studies

Israel Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Israel about their new books.

Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

November 15, 2024

Occupied Words

Hannah Pollin-Galay
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War

November 9, 2024

Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War

Parker Palmer
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Italian Studies

Italian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Italy about their new books.

Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)

November 10, 2024

Redreaming the Renaissance

Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek
Hosted by Jana Byars
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 6, 2024

Dante's Education

Filippo Gianferrari
Hosted by Jana Byars
Japanese Studies

Japanese Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Japan about their new books.

Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)

October 31, 2024

Beverly Hills Spy

Ronald Drabkin
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

October 18, 2024

Samurai with Telephones

Christopher Smith
Hosted by Jingyi Li
Korean Studies

Korean Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Korea about their new books.

Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness

Dennis Wuerthner, trans.
Hosted by Leslie Hickman
Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)

October 11, 2024

Afterlives of Letters

Satoru Hashimoto
Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Latino Studies

Latino Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Latinx Studies about their new books.

Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)

October 19, 2024

Hispano Bastion

Michael J. Alarid
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

October 17, 2024

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks
Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies

episodes
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 11, 2024

Good Victims

Roxani Krystalli
Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

November 10, 2024

An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Sharonah Esther Fredrick
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Mexican Studies

Mexican Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholar of Mexico about their new books

Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)

October 19, 2024

Hispano Bastion

Michael J. Alarid
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

October 17, 2024

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks
Middle Eastern Studies

Middle Eastern Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the Middle East about their new books.

Native American Studies

Native American Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Native America about their new books.

Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

November 10, 2024

An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Sharonah Esther Fredrick
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas

Nicolas Delsol
Hosted by Sarah Newman
Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies

episodes

Discussions with scholars of the Pacific region about their new books

Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)

September 1, 2024

Gateway State

Sarah Miller-Davenport
Hosted by Zeb Larson
Polish Studies

Polish Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Poland about their new books

Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)

November 12, 2024

How to Love a Child

Janusz Korczak
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

October 16, 2024

Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule

Rachel O'Sullivan
Hosted by Kelly McFall
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Russian and Eurasian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their new books.

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Reflections on Stalinism

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Hosted by Alisa Kuzmina
Our Enemies Will Vanish: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov

November 13, 2024

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov
Hosted by Laura Laurent
Southeast Asian Studies

Southeast Asian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Southeast Asia about their new books hosted by Nick Cheesman, Michele Ford, Patrick Jory, and Duncan McCargo.

Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)

November 15, 2024

The Pulse of the Earth

Adam Bobbette
Hosted by Michele Ford
Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency

November 8, 2024

Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency

Chayata Sripanich
Hosted by Duncan McCargo
South Asian Studies

South Asian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of South Asia about their new books.

Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)

November 14, 2024

If All the World Were Paper

Tyler W. Williams
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)

November 14, 2024

Ruth Vanita

Ruth Vanita
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Turkish Studies

Turkish Studies

episodes

Interviews with authors about new books in Turkish studies.

Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)

October 22, 2024

Zainab's Traffic

Emrah Yildiz
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Nick Lloyd, "The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Norton, 2024)

October 6, 2024

The Eastern Front

Nick Lloyd
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Ukrainian Studies

Ukrainian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Ukraine about their new books

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Reflections on Stalinism

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Hosted by Alisa Kuzmina
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)

November 13, 2024

So They Remember

Maksim Goldenshteyn
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Western European Studies

Western European Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Western Europe about their new books.

Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Historical Turns

Nicholas Baer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Protecting Democracy in Europe

Tom Theuns
Hosted by Tim Jones
World Affairs

World Affairs

episodes

Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.