Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWill Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?
Episode 18
Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs? Or will it generate fresh instability as frustra…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 154
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families
Episode 28
Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families…
1 year, 9 months ago
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 374
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.
Society …
1 year, 9 months ago
Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
Episode 531
For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of…
1 year, 9 months ago
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 281
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate o…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 12
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Globa…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 530
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many m…
1 year, 9 months ago
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 337
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed?
Rosemary Pennington's new book P…
1 year, 9 months ago
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Episode 65
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed…
1 year, 9 months ago