Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCaroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 1520
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals how American capitalism ha…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1519
How are influencers changing the arts? In Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture (U Californi…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
James Brown's War on Disco
Episode 1518
In the penultimate episode of season 2 of Soundscapes NYC, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares sit down with acclaimed historian Alice Echols, auth…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025)
Episode 1517
Black holes, demystified: follow along the quest to understand the history and influence of one of space science's most fascinating and confounding p…
1 year ago
Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)
Episode 1516
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma:…
1 year ago
Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1515
Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature (Routledge, 2025) investigates the gender representations that French children's litera…
1 year ago
Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document
Episode 231
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we consider Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska as personal and political document. With the release of the …
1 year ago
Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document
Episode 231
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we consider Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska as personal and political document. With the release of the …
1 year ago
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1512
Dr. Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and Gus. Their loved ones see this as a step toward an …
1 year ago
Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)
Episode 1511
Dr. Michael F. Maniates is a leading scholar in environmental politics and sustainability studies whose work has fundamentally reshaped how researche…
1 year ago