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Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski

Academics are increasingly leveraging narrative audio to conduct and disseminate original scholarship, moving beyond simple conversational formats toward highly produced, limited series podcasts. This shift allows researchers to integrate ethnographic fieldwork, sensory experiences, and archival sound into their work, ...

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Imperial Depths: Mark Letteney and Matthew Larsen on the Roman Prison system (JP)

Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)

Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr

Olivier Hein, "Borneo: The History of an Enigma" (Hurst, 2026)

Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

April Reynolds, "The Shape of Dreams" (Random House, 2026)

Carlin Wing, "Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play" (MIT Press, 2026)

Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)

Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

The Augustan Revolution: On Ancient Rome with Reece Edmends

Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)

Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)