Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaren Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 53
Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers hav…
3 years, 4 months ago
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 226
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton UP, 2022) is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of I…
3 years, 5 months ago
Edward S. Cooke, "Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 127
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses ar…
3 years, 5 months ago
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 631
None of us really want to relive our first encounters with COVID-19 and the disruptions to our lives, to say nothing of the anxiety and concern about…
3 years, 5 months ago
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 52
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 gain…
3 years, 5 months ago
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 22
In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 109
In the nineteenth century, one group of American merchants reported an odd request from the Vietnamese emperor. An envoy asked if the traders could h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)
Episode 198
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the mode…
3 years, 5 months ago
Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 51
The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to u…
3 years, 6 months ago
Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 189
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe.
Reading literature in a time of c…
3 years, 6 months ago