Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBen Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)
Episode 29
In Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World (Beacon, 2022), disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to int…
2 years, 6 months ago
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 313
In this interview, I speak with Marion Holmes Katz about her latest book Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity (Columbia UP, 2022).…
2 years, 6 months ago
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
Episode 68
Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 2023…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 669
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. …
2 years, 6 months ago
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
Episode 298
With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly s…
2 years, 6 months ago
Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 307
Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigra…
2 years, 6 months ago
Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 117
There was a time when French people put up picture of Marshal Philippe Petain on their walls. He is a figure of immeasurable stature to the country o…
2 years, 6 months ago
Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 72
For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading …
2 years, 6 months ago
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
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 …
2 years, 6 months ago