Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJustine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)
Season 2 Episode 208
Before you left your house this morning, chances are that you used products and consumed goods that were produced by modern slavery. From the coffee …
2 years, 9 months ago
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Season 2 Episode 84
Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP, 2019) traces the intersection of colonialism, law, land expropria…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 245
In State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime (Basic Books, 2023), political historian Dr. Sam Lebovic uncovers the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 111
In Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Eva van Roekel grounds her research in phenomenological a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 698
Political Scientist Steven Rogers’ new book focuses on the deceptively complex question of how it is that voters do or don’t/can and can’t hold their…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (Stanford UP, 2017)
Season 2 Episode 58
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seek…
2 years, 9 months ago
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Season 2 Episode 75
Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge UP, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Season 2 Episode 55
In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial unders…
2 years, 10 months ago
Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 434
There are numerous political debates about education policy today, but some of the most heated surround vouchers, charter schools, and other question…
2 years, 10 months ago
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
Season 2 Episode 690
Scholars Stephen Engel and Timothy Lyle have a new book that dives into the thinking around power, political and cultural progress, and the LGBTQ+ co…
2 years, 10 months ago