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Back to SearchSarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 105
Sarah E. Stoller, Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain (MIT Press, 2023) is the first historical examinatio…
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Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 424
Are jobs fair? In The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College (U Chicago Press, 2023), Jessi Streib, an associate Professor of So…
2 years, 7 months ago
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 688
Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersin…
2 years, 7 months ago
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 70
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
Episode 87
The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted party choice. The advent of rust belts may have …
2 years, 7 months ago
Lidia Katia C. Manzo, "Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown" (Springer, 2023)
Episode 326
Lidia Katia C. Manzo's book Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown (Springer, 2023) examines lived experiences of making, inhabit…
2 years, 7 months ago
Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 64
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – …
2 years, 7 months ago
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 356
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency.
The Sw…
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Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 267
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstantino…
2 years, 7 months ago
Terah J. Stewart, "Sex Work on Campus" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 324
Terah J. Stewart's book Sex Work on Campus (Routledge, 2022) examines the experiences of college students engaged in sex work and sparks dialogue abo…
2 years, 7 months ago