New Books in Public Policy

Ian Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure" (Routledge, 2019)

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as thinkers such as Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, ...

Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting" (Penguin, 2019)

22 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself. How much are we connected to one another? In what ways ar...

Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future" (MIT Press, 2019)

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars...

Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman and Littlefield, 2020)

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How should we understand inequality? In A Sense of Inequality (Roman and Littlefield, 2020), Wendy Bottero, a Reader in Sociology at the University of...

Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and ...

Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How did the modern, American body come into being? According to Rachel Louise Moran this is a story to be told through the lens of the advisory state....

Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Mil...

Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption" (Oxford UP, 2019)

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world c...

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States and around the world. Enforcing immigration law in the U.S. involves a ...

Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In his book Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Matt Grossmann examines, first,...

David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Pettinicchio has written Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform (Stanford University Press, 2019). H...

Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession" (U Texas Press, 2019)

24 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth. In an era o...

David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" (Random House, 2019)

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Colleges and universities can play a virtual role in the moral, intellectual and spiritual development of a student’s life. But there is a growing m...

Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary" (Haymarket Books, 2018)

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States. People...

Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream became Temporary" (Viking, 2018)

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It has become a truism that work has become less secure and more precarious for a widening swath of American workers. Why and how this has happened, a...

Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America" (Sentinel, 2019)

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor? We spe...

A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with A.R. Ruis about the 2017 book Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in th...

Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy" (Hurst, 2019)

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Free market capitalism has failed women, and even the recent progress that had been made in closing the gender wage gap has leveled off in many rich d...

William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family & ...

Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Philip M. Napoli has been thinking about algorithmic news and social media feed curation for quite some time, as he acknowledges in his new book, Soci...

Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities" (Island Press, 2019)

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities (Island Press, 2019) is designed to help planners, municipal staff and ...

Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student Loan" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With free college in the national conversation, there’s been no better time for Daniel T. Kirsch’s new book Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Highe...

Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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, i...

Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley" (UBC Press, 2016)

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a foreword to Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (University of British Columbia Pr...

Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school. Wi...

Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The neoliberal 1980s of austerity and privatization may appear as a break with the past—perhaps a model of government drawn up by libertarian econom...

Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)

20 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Inequality in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the past decades -- on that there is agreement. There is less agreement on the causes of that i...

Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (Polity, 2019)

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White su...

Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement" (Palgrave, 2019)

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of the museum? In The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Johanna Taylor...

Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution” (Stanford UP, 2019)

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We Americans are defined by our Constitution and we cherish especially the First and Second Amendments. But like all texts, the Constitution can be re...

William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Talking Legal History, Siobhan talks with William P. Hustwit about his book Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of J...

Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Obama Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2019)

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Presidency scholars Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige have compiled an excellent array of authors and essays in their edited volume, The Obama Le...

Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the geographer Serin Houston complicates Seattle’s lib...

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 trad...

Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about...

Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Policy Press, 2019)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How should we understand work? In What’s Wrong with Work? (Policy Press, 2019), Lynn Pettinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University o...

Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Zoltan Hajna...

Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic...

Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work?" (Sage, 2019)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of work? In What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work? (Sage, 2019), Melanie Simms, a Professor of Work and Em...

Steven White, "World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex than ...

David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the De...

Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh, "Citizenship" (Polity, 2019)

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorists Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh have written a sharp, concise, and complex analysis of the concept of citizenship, the theoreti...

T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith have written an accessible and important book about the #BlackLivesMatter social movement and broader cons...

Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019)

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone. Wendy Brown is one of the world’s leading scholars on neoli...

Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Strange Trips isn’t only the title of Dr. Lucas Richert’s new book; it’s also a good description of the journey substances take from the black m...

Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era" (Columbia UP, 2019)

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

n Andrew Sidman, Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era (Columbia University Press, 2019), offers a sys...

Bryan Jones, "The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

18 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Jones, Sean Theriault, and Michelle Whyman are out with a big book on with a provocative thesis. In The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion...

Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat" (Island Press, 2019)

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cities are extremely complex institutions to understand and are continually changing. A central place to make sense of the complexities of a city is t...

Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)

09 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores. It is responsible for the reported gap in IQ scores bet...

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America" (Princeton UP, 2017)

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit w...

Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality" (U California Press, 2019)

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/A...

Sarah Halpern-Meekin, "Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties" (NYU Press, 2019)

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account? In Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for...

Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind, "Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business" (MIT Press, 2018)

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught? From Jeffersonian politics to the hallowed family farm, from craft breweries to tech...

Anthony Ryan Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs. In this interview, Anthony Ryan Hatch discusses the need to th...

Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics" (Verso, 2019)

09 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Blanc is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics(Verso, 2019). Blanc is a former teacher, journali...

Caitlyn Collins, "Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving" (Princeton UP, 2019)

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton Universit...

Hye-Kyung Lee, "Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State" (Routledge, 2018)

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why does Korean cultural policy matter? In Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State (Routledge, 2018), Hye-Kyung Lee, a Senior Lectur...

David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisan Divide on Environmental Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

21 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Karol’s new book, Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisan Divide on Environmental Issues (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines the history o...

Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Marisol LeBrón’s new book, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019), examines ...

Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How States Are Challenging Federal Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Expansion of federal power has typically come with the consent of states, often eager to receive the funding tied to new policy priorities. Not so any...

Joseph C. Sternberg, "The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future" (PublicAffairs, 2019)

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph C. Sternberg's book The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future (PublicAffairs, 2019) is an analysis o...

Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2017)

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--interviews Dr. C...

Alexander Garvin, "The Heart of the City: Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century" (Island Press, 2019)

10 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They a...

Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in US Public Policy" (Oxford UP, 2019)

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Neoliberal policies have been a primary feature of American political economy for decades. In Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the ...

Annalee Good, "Teachers at the Table: Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking" (Lexington Press, 2018)

03 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Annalee Good, an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, joins us in this ...

Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Prevention" (RAND Corporation, 2019)

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Practical Terrorism Prevention: Reexamining U.S. National Approaches to Addressing the Threat of Ideologically Motivated Violence (RAND Corporation, 2...

A. Harkins and M. McCarroll, "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

27 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (West Virginia University Press, 2019) is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and...

David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities" (MIT Press, 2018)

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become? In Transit Li...

J. Dyck and E. Lascher, "Initiatives without Engagement: A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ballot initiatives offer voters the chance to directly determine the outcome of state policy change. Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in poli...

Diane Tober, "Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

15 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies ...

David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse. Today I talked with historian David Cou...

Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lindsey N. Kingston’s new book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019) interrogates the idea of citizenshi...

Carrie Baker, "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Carrie Baker's Fig...

Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)

06 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this New Books Network/Gotham Center for NYC History podcast, guest host Beth Harpaz, editor of the City University of New York website SUM, interv...

Jessica A. J. Rich, "State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Rich’s new book, State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a fas...

Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans" (Yale UP, 2019)

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs. But Michael A. Cohen and his co-author...

Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It is an article of faith in many circles that the most effective and efficient way to solve a broad range of local and national problems is through p...

Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation" (U Edinburgh Press, 2018)

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory.  Accord...

Abraham A. Singer, "The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2018)

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (Oxford University Press, 2018), Abraham Singer essentially marries together ...

Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (UNC Press, 2016)

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, peo...

William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting ...

Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit" (Island Press, 2018)

22 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Christof Spieler, PE, LEED AP, is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a lecturer in Architecture and Engineering at Rice Un...

Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard" (Columbia UP, 2015)

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (Columbia University Press 2015, paperback 2018), Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjus...

Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, Symbols, and Hope" (Manchester UP, 2019)

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama. Few have done so with the nuance and comparative approach o...

Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Minoritised Groups" (Routledge, 2019)

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who is excluded from science? What is the role of museums in this exclusion? In Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Mi...

Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018)

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World (MIT Press, 2018), Dr. Christopher Preston argues that...

Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education" (Routledge, 2018)

12 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jamila Lee-Johnson and Ashley Gaskew, doctoral students in education at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, join us in this episode to discuss th...

Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take for all girls to achieve? What will it take to remove the seen and unseen barriers-- some a matter of policy and others cultural pra...

Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you are a commuter weighing options of taking the bus vs walking to get you to work on time or a military general leading troops into war, ris...

Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD" (UNC Press, 2018)

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny. As any student ...

Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement" (SUNY Press, 2019)

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration. Officials across government have sought to overturn decisions made by ...

Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics" (Harvard Education Press, 2019)

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who funds local school board elections? Local residents or major donors living elsewhere? Jeffrey R. Henig, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Sarah Reckhow seek t...

John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know" (Routledge, 2019)

03 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I met with John Komlos, an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the Chair of Economic History at the University of Mu...

Kevin T. Smiley, "Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future" (NYU Press, 2018)

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city? In Market C...

Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic" (Radius Books, 2018)

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Normal turned to PTSD and a substance abuse nightmare for Jenny the instant a taxi struck her, catapulting her twenty feet across a busy New York City...

Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with Machiavelli" (Oxford UP, 2018)

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., in his new book, Reading Politics with Machiavelli(Oxford University Press, 2018), puts himself and the reader into conversati...

Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification" (Routledge, 2019)

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Candis Watts Smith and Christina Greer are the editors of Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification (Routledge, 2...

Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future" (Brookings, 2019)

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to get sidetracked while writing a book. But imagine being interrupted by the President of the United States. That happened to Tom Wheeler, ...

Linda K. Wertheimer, "Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance" (Beacon Press, 2017)

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance (Beacon Press, 2017) by Linda K. Wertheimer profiles the beauty and difficulty of teaching ...

I. Gould Ellen and J. Steil, "The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity" (Columbia UP, 2019)

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation? Why is it complicated to address residential segregation? ...