Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDebra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 325
Debra Thompson, in her award-winning* book The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (Cambridge University Press, 2…
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Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 324
In his new book, Matthew Longo takes the reader on an unusual journey, at least within political theory, since his work combines a normative politica…
7 years, 1 month ago
Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 30
The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don’t know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned …
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Calvin Schermerhorn, "Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 153
At this point, it is hard to fathom the shear volume of studies of American slavery that scholars have produced. And new works on American slavery ar…
7 years, 1 month ago
Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The Threat of Nuclear War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 29
In his new book On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The Threat of Nuclear War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Van Jackson succinctly explains the major…
7 years, 2 months ago
John Witte, Jr., "The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 66
John Witte, Jr.'s The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an extensively researched book showcasing the aut…
7 years, 2 months ago
Sarah Thomsen Vierra, "Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 59
After years of being overlooked, there has been a growing interest among academic historians in the history of Turkish Guest Workers in West Germany.…
7 years, 2 months ago
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, "Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 90
Almost a decade in the making, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland(Cambridge University Press, 2018) draws…
7 years, 2 months ago
Ashley Jardina, "White Identity Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 320
One of the themes of the era of Donald Trump is whiteness and white identity. From his first steps into the public eye, Trump used race to frame his …
7 years, 2 months ago
Steve Stewart-Williams, "The Ape That Understood the Universe: How Mind and Culture Evolve" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 73
In this episode, cross-posted from from the podcast Psychologists Off The Clock, Dr. Yael Schonbrun takes a dive into evolutionary psychology with pr…
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