Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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episode 28: Eddie Chau, "Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings" (ORO Editions, 2018)
Chau's book reproduces of thousands of graphic images from a single sketchbook, drawn over the course of 27 years.
episode 155: Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...
episode 60: Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?
episode 155: Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon" (Potomac Book, 2019)
Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...
episode 59: Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
episode 651: Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America" (Basic Books, 2019)
John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace...
episode 74: William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...
episode 155: Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon" (Potomac Book, 2019)
Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...
episode 63: Quassim Cassam, "Conspiracy Theories" (Polity, 2019)
Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies...
episode 649: S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..