From the Square: An NYU Press Podcast
Episodes
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is inevitably cited as ...
Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as Dr. Andrew Monteith shows in Christian Na...
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A full transcript of the interview is available for accessibility. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez's Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Pre...
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Rickard examines how serialized ...
Dana Berkowitz et al. ed., "Male Femininities" (NYU Press, 2023)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women What counts as “male femininity”? Is it sim...
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transg...
The Future of Secularization: A Discussion with Ryan Cragun
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The statement ‘we live in a secular age’ is open to the obvious challenge that in some parts of the word, religion is a growing force in society. ...
Hava Rachel Gordon, "This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform" (NYU Press, 2021)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School!: Race and Community ...
Alisa Perkins, "Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit" (NYU Press, 2020)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The call to prayer breaks the hustle and bustle of an urban sonic landscape in unique ways. For Muslims living in Hamtramck, Michigan broadcasting the...
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Ramzi Fawaz, the Romnes Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published by NYU Press in 2016, The New Mutan...
Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diversity in higher education is under attack as the Supreme Court limits the use of race-conscious admissions practices at American colleges and uni...
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers,...
Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to dissuade Orthodox Jews from creating large families, an objective that flies in the face of ...
Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Lucila Rozas discusses the book Latino TV: A History (2022) by Mary Beltrán. You’ll hear about: A brief trajectory ...
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinqui...
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in t...
Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold...
Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022)
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the...
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploi...
J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communitie...
Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the...
Evelyn Alsultany, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion" (NYU Press, 2022)
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), Evelyn Alsultany, Professor at the University of Southern California, argues t...
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host Sim Gill discusses the book Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste (2021) by Jonathan Gray. You’...
Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An abolitionist approach to STS and the history of the life sciences: this is the model that Cristina Mejia Visperas offers in her book, Skin Theor...
Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production. Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acq...
Leah Mickens, "In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II" (NYU Press, 2022)
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of ...
Charles Price, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, the...
Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptional...
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imaginations, and Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2023) is a tour de force that weaves together the...
Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson, "Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories" (NYU Press, 2022)
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and...
Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A signific...
Francis M. Carroll, "America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History" (NYU Press, 2021)
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation fo...
Clare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drag shows that test the capacity of bars persist alongside wishes for stronger community among River City's LGBTQ population. In this examination of ...
Queer Space
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns ou...
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New ...
Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of ...
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest" (NYU Press, 2022)
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvary...
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest" (NYU Press, 2022)
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvary...
Neurasthenia
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Kim talks with Saronik about neurasthenia. A disease that no longer exists, neurasthenia was a nineteenth century Amer...
Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Qatar, an ambitious country in the Arabian Gulf, grabbed headlines as the first Middle Eastern nation selected to host the FIFA World Cup. As the weal...
Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colon...
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road: Black Middle-C...
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ammon Hennacy was arrested over thirty times for opposing US entry in World War 1. Later, when he refused to pay taxes that support war, he lost his w...
Publishing Activism & Alternative Forms of Collaborative Scholarship
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alterna...
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration? As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster...
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ramzi Fawaz, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that weaves together the more contemporary history of feminis...
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For much of America’s rapidly growing secular population, religion is an inescapable source of skepticism and discomfort. It shows up in politics an...
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX. "Every girl in Little League, ...
Elizabeth Ellcessor, "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality" (NYU Press, 2022)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elizabeth Ellcessor presents a much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives in In Case of Emergency: How Technol...
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this inaugural episode, our host Aswin Punathambekar speaks with Samhita Sun...
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, "Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader" (NYU Press, 2021)
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in...
NBN Classic: T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candi...
Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law" (NYU Press, 2020)
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement. This is especially true surrounding the activism of th...
Anthony Christian Ocampo, "Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons" (NYU Press, 2022)
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Press, 2022) cou...
On Men and Catholic Devotion in Brooklyn
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College where she teaches classes on religion and masculinity, Catholics in t...
Wendy L. Rouse, "Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment was commemorated in 2020, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were often the focus of museum ...
Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Freedom, Now!” This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people...
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex...
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, notab...
Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. "Repatriation is a must!" they cry. The...
Niall Whelehan, "Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War" (NYU Press, 2021)
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Niall Whelehan is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, where he focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and themes...
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until recently, most p...
Pallavi Banerjee, "The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program" (NYU Press, 2022)
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program (NYU Press, 2022) is the first book to lo...
Nicholas T. Pruitt, "Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism" (NYU Press, 2021)
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism (NYU Press, 2021) uncovers the largely overlooked role that li...
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of ...
Care Ethics
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Merel Visse and Inge van Nistelrooij talk with Kim about Care Ethics. Over the course of the episode, we discuss works by many care ethicists and othe...
Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. Mor...
Amy L. Stone, "Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South" (NYU Press, 2022)
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (NYU Press, 2022) reveals the importance of citywide celebrations like Mardi Gras and Fiesta f...
Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are living in an era of unprecedented access to popular culture: contemporary digital infrastructure provides anyone with an internet connection ac...
Kate Luce Mulry, "An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic" (NYU Press, 2021)
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in...
Christopher Donoghue, "The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents" (NYU Press, 2022)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on sc...
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigm...
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. ...
On St. Francis of Assisi, Sultan Malik al-Kamil, and the Crusades
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Moses, former Newsday city editor and senior religion writer, is a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College and the City University of New Y...
Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his fascinating and riveting new book Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism (NYU Press, 2021), hist...
Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate―five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the ...
Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla, "Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication" (NYU Press, 2021)
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars Heather Hlavka (Marquette University) and Sameena Mulla (Emory University) have written a new book that examines and interrogates the place a...
Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Daniel Y. Kim, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University, about his 2020 book Intimacies o...
On Queer and Feminist Religious Studies
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa M. Wilcox received her doctorate in Religious Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2000. Her transdisciplinary research program focuses on gende...
Daniel R. Bare, "Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era" (NYU Press, 2021)
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the modernist-fundamentalist controversy came to a head in the early twentieth century, an image of the “fighting fundamentalist” was imprinted...
Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his fascinating survey Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World (NYU Press, 2021), Brian Ogr...
Manata Hashemi, "Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity" (NYU Press, 2020)
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have increasingly burdened young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Coming of Age in Iran: ...
Kate Henley Averett, "The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of Education" (NYU Press, 2021)
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Homeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled, within an i...
Karen Jaime, "The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida" (NYU Press, 2021)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Losaida (NYU Press, 2021), Karen Jaime argues that the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe has al...
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (NYU Press, 2021) tells the story of the founding of Amer...
Alison Hope Alkon, "A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City" (NYU Press, 2020)
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City (NYU Press, 2020), edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca, i...
Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”...
Britt Rusert, "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture" (NYU Press, 2017)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (NYU Press, 2017), by Professor Britt Rusert (UMass-Amherst), has alread...
Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue?...
Habiba Ibrahim, "Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2021)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time...
Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aest...
Andrea Laurent-Simpson, "Just Like Family: How Companion Animals Joined the Household" (NYU Press, 2021)
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Andrea Laurent-Simpson’s path in and out of and back into graduate school The s...
Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How have Black women lead a digital revolution? In Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press, 2021), Catherine Knight Steele, an assistant professor of co...
Erica R. Edwards, "The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2021)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Erica R. Edwards's The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York University, 2021) reveals the troubling intimac...
Teresa Irene Gonzales, "Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment" (NYU Press, 2021)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing ...
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, the...
stef m. shuster, "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender" (NYU Press, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, tr...
Alexander Laban Hinton, "It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US" (NYU Press, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Ch...
Jane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" (NYU Press, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend ...
Jane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" (NYU Press, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If opposite-gender partnerships remain the societal ideal, then why are so many straight couples miserable? Author Jane Ward has been studying this qu...