Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 731
Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Ameri…
1 year, 8 months ago
Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 38
Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociological p…
1 year, 8 months ago
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
Episode 79
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the STS Progr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1471
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare (Cambridge UP, 2023) introduces a much-needed theory of tactic…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 4
Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental “su…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 62
Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without…
1 year, 8 months ago
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 99
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing …
1 year, 8 months ago
Michele Santamaria and Nicole Pfannenstiel, "Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the Acrl Framework" (ACRL, 2024)
Episode 66
Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heurist…
1 year, 8 months ago
12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
Episode 67
This is part #2 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Last episode, the sp…
1 year, 8 months ago
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 27
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “coun…
1 year, 8 months ago