American Studies

American Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the m…

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Changed Men

Erin Lee Mock
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual…

Risk

November 15, 2024

Risk

Faye Raquel Gleisser

In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in economics, athletics, sociology, or healthcare, risk …

Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 15, 2024

Raised to Obey

Agustina Paglayan
Hosted by Mark Klobas

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly e…

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

November 14, 2024

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson. Black resistance to white suprema…

Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election

November 14, 2024

Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election

Julia Azari, Jonathan Bernstein, Meena Bose, Daniel E. Ponder
Hosted by Susan Liebell

Many pundits are rushing to judgement – claiming to identify the “one” reason that Donald Trump won or Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential Electi…

Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)

November 14, 2024

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Richard Schoch
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, …

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

November 13, 2024

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

Hosted by Gordon Katic

This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly batt…

Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)

November 13, 2024

Kissing Girls on Shabbat

Sara Glass
Hosted by Zalman Newfield

Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately w…

Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)

November 12, 2024

Uncomfortable Television

Hunter Hargraves
Hosted by Cory Barker

From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Y…

Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

November 11, 2024

Dual Justice

Anthony Grasso
Hosted by Susan Liebell

The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…

Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)

November 10, 2024

The Life and Death of Ryan White

Paul M. Renfro
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Whi…

Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)

November 9, 2024

Black Woman on Board

Donna J. Nicol
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024)…

James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 8, 2024

Martin Van Buren

James M. Bradley
Hosted by Mark Klobas

Despite serving as the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren gets little consideration for his impact on American history. In his new b…

Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)

November 7, 2024

Beyond the Wire

Andrew Stravers, Michael A. Allen, Carla Martinez Machain, and Michael E. Flynn

The United States stands at a crossroads in international security. The backbone of its international position for the last 70 years has been the mass…

Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

November 7, 2024

Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri

In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…

Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)

November 6, 2024

Morningside

Aran Robert Shetterly
Hosted by Thomas Discenna

On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots ran…

The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

November 6, 2024

The Impeachment Power

Keith E. Whittington
Hosted by Laura Laurent

In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of a…

Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

November 6, 2024

Performing the News

Elia Powers
Hosted by Cory Barker

Elia Powers' book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality (Rutgers UP, 2024) explores how journalists from historically m…

Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)

November 4, 2024

I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me

Matthew Ferrence
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Today I talked to Matthew Ferrence about his book I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay (West Virginia UP, 2024). When …