This week, Michael Carter returns to discuss his research on forced sterilization in Puerto Rico. We also discuss the reports of similar abuses over the last half of the twentieth century and today in ICE facilities. This is the final episode o

An Interview with Mount Prospect Historical Society Executive Director Emily Dattilo

Nov 24th, 2020 59m 8s

This week Emily Dattilo returns to talk about her new position as the Executive Director of the Mount Prospect Historical Society. We talk about the Society and their upcoming virtual exhibit on dollhouses. We also discuss the mystery of the Mo

Carceral Research and Outreach With Marisola Xhelili Cicaccio & Sterling Knox of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach

Nov 17th, 2020 33m 17s

Hello, again this week my other duties prevented me from recording with a guest. But, instead of missing a release this week, I decided to share a conversation I had with two of my colleagues at the Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outr

Human Security, International Migration, Street Gangs, and Power Lifitng in El Salvador with Dr. Noelle Brigden

Nov 3rd, 2020 57m 56s

This week I am joined by Dr. Noelle Brigden, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. We discuss her research into boundaries imposed by nation-states, street gangs, and gated communities in urban E

Dracula, Frankenstein, and other Gothic Tales with Wendy Fall

Oct 27th, 2020 1h

This week I am joined by Gothic Literature Ph.D. Candidate Wendy Fall to discuss the history and development of gothic literature. She speaks on the differences between horror and terror in Gothic lit and provides great insight into vampire and

Witches, Werewolves, and Vampires in the Medieval Imagination with Sarah Dunn

Oct 20th, 2020 1h 7m

This week I am joined by Sarah Dunn who holds two Masters degrees in History and is an expert on European witch trials. We discuss the differences in witchcraft and sorcery and werewolf and vampire trials. An entertaining and holiday-appropriat

Sociology is Magic and Queerbilly Activism with Alana M. Anton

Oct 13th, 2020 1h 23m

This week I am joined by Alana M. Anton Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Georgia State University. We discuss politics and youth LGBTQ activism. We also spend some time talking about the Supreme Court in the wake of Associate Justice Ruth Bader

Africanist Round Table

Oct 6th, 2020 1h 4m

Thomas Bouril approached me with the idea to get the African Historians I had previously had on the podcast to do a roundtable. I liked the idea. So, Chase Barney, Alex Marino, Thomas, and Dr. David Pizzo join me to engage in a roundtable on va

Shi‘ism, the Báb, Islamic Educational Traditions, and American Academia during a Pandemic with Dr. Zackery Heern

Sep 29th, 2020 1h 2m

This week I am joined by the Chair of History and Associate Professor of Middle East, Islam, & World History at Idaho State University, Dr. Zackery Heern. We discuss the evolution of Shi'ism and the Mahdism of The Báb. Dr. Heern also talks abo

Southern Identity, Family, and Politics with Georgia General Assembly Candidate Angela Mayfield

Sep 22nd, 2020 1h 35m

This week I am joined by Angela Mayfield a former nonprofit administrator and communications specialist, running to represent House District 67 in the Georgia General Assembly. We have a rollicking conversation about Southern identity our famil

The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust, and the Janowska Concentration Camp with Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn

Sep 15th, 2020 1h 2m

This week I am joined by Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn, Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. We discuss his career path that bridges the gaps between the public and academic history spheres. Dr. Beorn provides an exce

The *Lost* Michel Carter Episode: Monuments, Srebrenica Massacre Anniversary, & the Optimism of July

Sep 8th, 2020 1h 9m

This week I am releasing a talk with a genocide scholar, an adjunct history professor at Kean University, and friend Michael Carter that I had taped back in July near the anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre. Ostensibly, we got together to ta

Discussing the American Revolution, Marquette's Public Service Degree, & Unionization Efforts with Sam Harshner

Sep 1st, 2020 56m 57s

This week I am joined by Ph.D. Candidate Sam Harshner to discuss his work in the public sector and his forthcoming dissertation focusing on the American Revolution in urban areas. We also discuss his role as the Program Director for the Public

Marquette's Humanities Without Walls Award with Maggie Nettesheim Hoffman, Dr. Douglas Woods, & Dr. Timothy McMahon

Aug 25th, 2020 48m 8s

This week I am joined by three of my Marquette colleagues to discuss Marquette University's Klingler College of Arts and Sciences award of $1.3 Million as part of Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Andrew W. Mellow Foundation grant renewal. Through

Introducing the "Feminist Anthropology" journal with co-editors Dr. Dána-Ain Davis and Dr. Sameena Mulla

Aug 18th, 2020 37m 28s

This week I am pleased to be joined by the co-editors of a new anthropology journal, Feminist Anthropology, which seeks to bring heterogeneous conceptions of feminism into critical scholarly conversation across a variety of disciplines and gene

The Spanish Civil War with the host of "The Iberian Knot Podcast" Seth Reeves

Aug 11th, 2020 51m 26s

This week I am joined by fellow podcaster Seth Reeves to discuss his excellent podcast on the Spanish Civil War, "The Iberian Knot." We discuss what drew him to this project, his background, and of course, The Spanish Civil War itself. A great

The History of Black-led Collective Resistance to Over Policing in Milwaukee with Will Tchakirides

Aug 4th, 2020 1h 5m

This week, I am joined by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history Ph.D. candidate Will Tchakirides to discuss his forthcoming dissertation, “Policing Exceptionalism: Race, Law Enforcement, and the Black-led Struggle for Accountability in

White Supremacist Activity and the Antifascist Movement Known as "Antifa" with Dr. Stanislav Vysotsky

Jul 28th, 2020 55m 46s

This week I am joined by Dr. Stanislav Vysotsky Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater to discuss his forthcoming book "American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifa

Indigenous Florida at the Nexus of Native American, Atlantic, Animal, and Environmental History with Jason Herbert

Jul 21st, 2020 1h 1m

This week I am joined by the University of Minnesota Ph.D. Candidate Jason Herbert. We spend the first few minutes discussing our mutual home state Kentucky then settle into discussing Jason's forthcoming dissertation on the introduction of cat

German Romantic Nationalism and the ideological evolution of National Socialism with Michael Adams

Jul 14th, 2020 1h 10m

This week I am joined by Mississippi State University Ph.D. candidate Michael Adams. Michael is an intellectual historian who studies the intellectual roots of Nazi Germany’s attempted colonization of Eastern Europe and the concentration camp s

Civil Defense Planning and the Cold War in Appalachia With Tristan Williams

Jul 7th, 2020 1h 8m

This week I am joined by West Virginia University Ph.D. student Tristan Williams. We discuss her transition from studying psychology to the discipline of history, and how that impacts her research. Speaking of her research, Tristan discusses bo

Iran and the Arab World in the Making of the Global Sixties as part of the Global Cold War with Arash Azizi

Jun 30th, 2020 58m 52s

This week I am joined by Arash Azizi, a Ph.D. Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies. We discuss his forthcoming dissertation looking at the role that both Iran and the Arab World had in constructing the Global Cold War. Arash also tal

Competing Conceptions of Childhood in Colonial Kenya with Thomas Bouril

Jun 23rd, 2020 1h 9m

This week I am joined by Syracuse University Ph.D. candidate Thomas Bouril to discuss his forthcoming dissertation. Thomas studies how the colonial state, missionaries, and the Kikuyu community fought over who qualified as children and how soci

Teaching History in Public Schools, 19th Century Californian History, and Teaching during an Epidemic with Ambar Rodriquez

Jun 16th, 2020 56m 56s

This week I am joined by one of my colleagues from Marquette University's History graduate program, Ambar Rodriquez. Ambar is currently teaching high school in California and I wanted to have her on to discuss both her experiences as an educato

Angola's Cold War: Independence, and the the role of Africa in America's Space Race with Alex Marino

Jun 8th, 2020 1h 2m

This week I am joined by the University of Arkansas Ph.D. candidate Alex Marino to discuss his forthcoming dissertation, “Space, Race, and the Cold War in Africa: The United States and Portuguese Angola.” We discuss American intervention in Ang