Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdrian Currie, "Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences" (MIT Press, 2018)
Episode 246
The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. Ho…
5 years, 11 months ago
Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge, 2015)
Episode 710
The Crusader World (Routledge, 2015), edited by Adrian J. Boas, is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusad…
5 years, 11 months ago
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 154
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillip…
6 years ago
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Episode 103
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. Howe…
6 years, 1 month ago
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Episode 42
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infogr…
6 years, 2 months ago
Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology" (Lexington, 2017)
After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile. In Britain, the center of Egyptology research was Uni…
6 years, 3 months ago
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Episode 45
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most tra…
6 years, 3 months ago
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Episode 81
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude …
6 years, 4 months ago
John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story" (National Geographic, 2017)
Episode 34
John D. Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal…
6 years, 7 months ago
Ashley Thompson, "Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor" (Routledge, 2016)
Episode 53
Thanks to the international tourism industry most people are familiar with the spectacular ruins of Angkor, the great Cambodian empire that lasted fr…
6 years, 7 months ago