Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 189
What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon? Who mobilizes these representations, and to what end? In Mapping AIDS: Visual Hi…
6 years, 11 months ago
Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 43
What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths? Combining theories of metaphor and narrative, Paul Cho argues that …
6 years, 11 months ago
Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE-250 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 490
In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west. Craig Benjamin’s Empires…
6 years, 11 months ago
Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 160
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a 'moral con…
6 years, 11 months ago
Emma Hunter, "Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 52
Histories of African nationalism and decolonization have often assumed that political ideas such as freedom and democracy were imported into African …
6 years, 11 months ago
Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 329
Martha S. Jones, in her excellent new book Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America(Cambridge University Press, 2018),…
7 years ago
Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 331
Reece Peck's Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class (Cambridge University Press, 2019) offers a unique argument of why the Fox News Cha…
7 years ago
Trent MacNamara, "Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 85
Birth control, and the access to it, has continued to be a divisive issue in American political and social life. While birth control has almost becom…
7 years ago
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 47
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press 2018), Geraldine Heng collects a remarkable array of medieval approa…
7 years ago
R. B. Jamieson, "Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 42
When and where did Jesus offer himself to God? What role does Jesus’ death play in his high-priestly self-offering in heaven? Answering these questio…
7 years, 1 month ago