Hannah Barker
person
3 mentions
2 recordings
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 13 May
↑1 vs the 6 months before
Historian at Arizona State University who studied medieval grain trade
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Peak in the week of 7 May — 2 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentUnknownUnexplainable · A better Black Death story · 16:06 · 13 May
…So, Hannah Barker, this medieval historian, zoomed in on one piece of the Black Death Puzzle, the small but pretty consequential jump that people believe this bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made back in 1347.…
UnknownUnexplainable · A better Black Death story · 4:36 · 13 May
…Instead of talking about climate and the Black Death, I wound up reaching out to a medieval historian named Hannah Barker, and she really helped me understand, first, like, why this key moment in our history is so hard to pin down, but also sort of why that ends up mattering…
Emily KwongShort Wave · Could This Exoplanet Harbor Life? · 7:09 · 12 Dec
…Hannah Barker, a historian at Arizona State University, discovered there was a reopening of the grain trade between the Mongol Empire and Genoa in 1347.…
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