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Susanne Freidberg, author of: Fresh: A Perishable History

Esther Sternberg, M.D., author of: Healing Spaces

Mary Beard, author of: The Fires of Vesuvius

Thomas G. Andrews, author of: Killing for Coal

James M. Lang, author of: On Course

Jon Latimer, author of: 1812: War with America

Barbara Dianne Savage, author of: Your Spirits Walk Beside Us

Peter R. Last & John Stevens, authors of: Sharks and Rays of Australia, Second Edition

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Suzanne E. Smith is the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.: Suzanne E. Smith is Associate Professor of History, George Mason University.; listen to the interview...; 15:45 minutes |14.5 MB

Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall are coauthors of America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity.: Campbell Craig is Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and Fredrik Logevall is Professor of History at Cornell University.; listen to the interview...; 11:40 minutes |14.4 MB

Therese Huston is the author of Teaching What You Don't Know.: She is Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University.; listen to the interview...; 11:52 minutes |10.9 MB

David Suisman is the author of Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music.: He is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware.; listen to the interview...; 14:15 minutes |13.1 MB

Seth Lerer is the editor of The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition.: He is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego.; listen to the interview...; 15:16 minutes |14 MB

Lucas A. Powe, Jr. is the author of The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2008.: He holds the Anne Green Regents Chair at the University of Texas, where he teaches in the School of Law and the Department of Government.; listen to the interview...; 15:32 minutes |14.3 MB

Lucas John Mix is the author of Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone.: He received his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard and now teaches courses on science and religion while working as a priest in the Episcopal Church in Seattle.; listen to the interview...; 13:20 minutes |12.2 MB

Jay Taylor is the author of The Generalissimo.: He is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 16:49 minutes |15.4 MB

Michèle Lamont is the author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.: She is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 15:24 minutes |14.1 MB

Steven Hahn is the author of The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom.: He is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at University of Pennsylvania.; listen to the interview...; 24:08 minutes |22.1 MB

Ronald L. Numbers is the author of Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion.: He is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at University of Wisconsin–Madison.; listen to the interview...; 17:14 minutes |15.8 MB

Loren Graham is the author of Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity.: He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; listen to the interview...; 11:31 minutes |10.6 MB

Patricia Gándara and Frances Contreras are the coauthors of The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies.: Patricia Gándara is Professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Frances Contreras is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Washington.; listen to the interview...; 18:05 minutes |16.6 MB

Thomas Dumm is the author of Loneliness as a Way of Life.: He is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.; listen to the interview...; 16:19 minutes |15 MB

Stuart Banner is the author of Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On.: He is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.; listen to the interview...; 14:27 minutes |13.2 MB

Mark S. Micale is the author of Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness.: He is Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine at the University of Illinois in Urbana–Champaign.; listen to the interview...; 17:11 minutes | 15.8 MB

Tim Blanning is the author of The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art.: He is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge.; listen to the interview...; 16:46 minutes |15.4 MB

John W. O'Malley is the author of What Happened at Vatican II.: He is University Professor of Theology at Georgetown University.; listen to the interview...; 19:38 minutes |18 MB

John D. Donahue is the author of The Warping of Government Work.: He is the Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Weil Program in Collaborative Governance at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 13:27 minutes | 14.7 MB

Christopher Newfield is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class.: He is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.; listen to the interview...; 17:07 minutes | 15.7 MB

Matthew Connelly is the author of Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population.: He is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.; listen to the interview...; 17:07 minutes | 15.7 MB

Robert Paarlberg is the author of Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa.: He is the Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.; listen to the interview...; 16:02 minutes | 16.9 MB

Malcolm Salter is the author of Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse.: He is James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.; listen to the interview...; 18:24 minutes | 16.9 MB

Janet Hope is the author of Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology.: She has published in the fields of constitutional, criminal, administrative, environmental, human rights, intellectual property law, and biotechnology regulation. She is a member of the Australian National University's Center for Governance of Knowledge and Development.; listen to the interview...; 14:21 minutes | 13.2 MB

Lewis Lockwood is the author of Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation.: He is Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 25:00 minutes | 23.2 MB

Robert O'Neil is the author of Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University.: He is University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. He is the former president of the University and founder of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.; listen to the interview...; 18:27 minutes | 16.0 MB

James Simpson is the author of Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents.: He is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, and Harvard College Professor.; listen to the interview...; 19:27 minutes | 17.8 MB

David Kaiser is the author of The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.: He is a noted historian and a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the Naval War College.; listen to the interview...; 19:27 minutes | 17.8 MB

Michael Levi is the author of On Nuclear Terrorism.: He is a Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; listen to the interview...; 11.10 minutes | 10.2 MB

David Edwards is the author of Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation.: He is founder of Le Laboratoire, a new artscience center in Paris, and Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 17.14 minutes | 15.8 MB

Lisa M. Diamond is the author of Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire.: She is Associate Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah.; listen to the interview...; 14.20 minutes | 13.2 MB

Muriel Gillick is the author of The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies.: She is Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. She is a staff physician for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and she is also on the medical staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital.; listen to the interview...; 10.59 minutes | 10.1 MB

Cass Sunstein is the author of Worst-Case Scenarios.: He is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago.; listen to the interview...; 15:23 minutes | 14.1 MB

Helen Vendler is the author of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form.: She is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 13:24 minutes | 12.3 MB

Jeremi Suri is the author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century.: He is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.; listen to the interview...; 15:08 minutes | 13.9 MB

Mary Beard is the author of The Roman Triumph.: She has a Chair of Classics at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College. She is classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of the blog A Don's Life.; listen to the interview...; 16:41 minutes | 15.2 MB

Sarah McFarland Taylor is the author of Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology.: She is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Northwestern University; listen to the interview...; 16:41 minutes | 15.2 MB

Tom Griffiths is the author of Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica.: He teaches history and the environment at the Australian National University in Canberra and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.; listen to the interview...; 16:41 minutes | 15.2 MB

James Dawes is the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity.: He is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Macalester College; listen to the interview...; 14:34 minutes | 13.3 MB

Margaret Hogan is the coeditor with C. James Taylor of My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. She is Managing Editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.: listen to the interview...; 11:32 minutes | 10.5 MB

Jon Latimer is the author of 1812: War with America.: He is a guest lecturer at the Joint Services Staff College and a former officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He is also the author of Deception in War and Alamein; listen to the interview...; 15:00 minutes | 13.7 MB

David Kirp is the author of The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics.: He is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of fourteen books, including Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard); listen to the interview...; 15:29 minutes | 14.2 MB

Donald Critchlow is the author of The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, forthcoming in November.: He is Professor of History at Saint Louis University.; listen to the interview...; 18:56 minutes | 17.3 MB

Mary Waters is coeditor of with Reed Ueda of The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965.: She is M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 10:53 minutes | 9.9 MB

Stephen Mihm is author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States.: He is Assistant Professor of History at University of Georgia.; listen to the interview...; 12:26 minutes | 11.4 MB

Risa Goluboff is author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights.: She is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.; listen to the interview...; 12:15 minutes | 11.2 MB

Joan Shelley Rubin is author of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America: She is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.; listen to the interview...; 10:18 minutes | 9.9 MB

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is author of The Jamestown Project.: She is Silver Professor of History at New York University.; listen to the interview...; 9:53 minutes | 9.02 MB

Michael J. Sandel is author of The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering.: He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University, and also the author of Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics and Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.; listen to the interview...; 15:39 minutes | 14.34 MB

Jeffrey A. Engel is the author of Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy.: He is Assistant Professor of History and Public Policy, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.; listen to the interview...; 10:17 minutes | 9.43 MB

Thomas K. McCraw is the author of Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction.: He is Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and also the author of Creating Modern Capitalism and Prophets of Regulation.; listen to the interview...; 10:06 minutes | 9.26 MB

McKenzie Wark is the author of Gamer Theory.: He is Associate Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research and also the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard) and Dispositions (Salt Publishing).; listen to the interview...; 8 minutes | 7.5 MB

Rawi Abdelal is the author of Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance.: He is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; listen to the interview...; 8:05 minutes | 7.7 MB

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is the author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.: He is Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University and also author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto.; listen to the interview...; 13:05 minutes | 12.7 MB

Giles Slade is the author of Made to Beak: Technology and Obsolescence in America.: He is an independent scholar and freelance writer; listen to the interview...; 16:25 minutes | 15 MB

Philip T. Hoffman is an author, along with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal of Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets.: He is Professor of History and Social Science, California Institute of Technology.; listen to the interview...; 10:05 minutes | 9.26 MB