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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 22: James Oakes
James Oakes was sitting at the head of a frighteningly tiny conference table when I entered the room for my first graduate course at the CUNY Graduat…
11 years, 6 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 21: Anthony Galluzzo
In recent months I have been depending on writer and professor Anthony Galluzzo's fantastic Facebook feed for his uniquely cynical take on the latest…
11 years, 7 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 20: Joe and John Lombardo
I've known Joe and John Lombardo since the mid-1990s, when I met them while working at a restaurant called Marie Callender's in Ventura, California. …
11 years, 7 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 19: Nichole Shippen
Nichole Shippen is a political theorist and professor at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. We talked a bit about her youth in a sm…
11 years, 7 months ago
The Nostalgia Trap - Episode 18: David Zeiger
David Zeiger's documentary film Sir! No Sir! had a profound impact on my graduate studies, educating me about the "GI movement" against the Vietnam W…
11 years, 7 months ago
The Nostalgia Trap - Episode 17: Clarence Taylor
During my early years as a graduate student in history, I took a course at the CUNY Graduate Center called "From Civil Rights to Black Power," taught…
11 years, 8 months ago
The Nostalgia Trap - Episode 16: Todd Gitlin
Reading Todd Gitlin's book The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage was a major moment in my development as a historian. Gitlin's colorful, rigorous …
11 years, 8 months ago
The Nostalgia Trap - Episode 15: Joshua Freeman
In 2004, when he was executive officer of the CUNY Graduate Center's department of history, Professor Joshua Freeman was my first contact and mentor …
11 years, 8 months ago
The Nostalgia Trap - Episode 14: Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, writer, critic, translator, archivist, and much more. As a professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, he is known as…
11 years, 8 months ago
The Nostalgia Trap - Episode 13: Students of CUNY, Part 1
My friend Justin Rogers-Cooper, a professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York, recently invited me to campus to record a …
11 years, 9 months ago