Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchResurrection on Trial (with Peter D. Martino, esq.): A Law Professor Weighs the Evidence with Peter D. Martino
Episode 1977
Peter Dominic Martino is a trial lawyer, law professor, former CEO, and former nuclear submarine officer. He serves as Assistant Professor at St. Tho…
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The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Episode 1978
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) examines how French and American co…
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11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans
Episode 1980
Meg Reid and Will Evans join Mesha Maren to consider what makes up a literary ecosystem. As leaders of two nonprofit independent presses,Hub City …
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A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa with Matthew P. Fitzpatrick (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1996
Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a th…
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Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway with Kelly McKowen (U Toronto Press, 2026)
Episode 1972
Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on …
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A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health with Susan Kaplan (Island Press, 2025)
Episode 1973
In the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available to create safe,…
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The Supernatural Public Square: On Religious Experience in the Modern Age with Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Episode 1986
The old story in the academy was that as science and technology progressed, western society would grow more secular while the supernatural would disa…
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Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World: Natural Capital and Climate Disaster in Belize with Patrick M. Gallagher (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 1971
Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. Yet for much of the twentieth century…
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To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian with Zahi Zalloua (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 1970
In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, "How does it feel to be a problem?"
In this profound res…
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Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory with Heather Berg (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 1975
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) ope…
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