Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTerence Keel, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1641
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, captu…
9 months, 1 week ago
Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1640
From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known “Indian wars,” the federal government…
9 months, 1 week ago
Amanda G. Madden, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1639
Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025) is a study of the practice of vendetta among the civic e…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1638
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1637
Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 686
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 39
The influence and spread of clans and families within the ‘ndrangheta - the Calabrian mafia - is international yet recognising their activities is no…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 25
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as a…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 271
Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate: Following a Migration Catego…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 196
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare …
9 months, 3 weeks ago