Delving In with Stuart Kelter

Ralph Eubanks is the former Director of Publishing for the Library of Congress, former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia, and currently faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Awarded the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for excellence in literature and appointed cultural ambassado...

Patrick Alley is the former executive director and co-founder – along with Simon Taylor and Charmian Gooch – of Global Witness , an award-winning nonprofit organization, established in 1993, dedicated to exposing the links between corruption, environmental destruction, human-rights abuses and war. Since stepping down as executive director in 2023, he has continued his involvement as a board member...

Anne-Marie Erickson is the author of the memoir, In the Evening, We’ll Dance: A Memoir in Essays on Love and Dementia, which bears witness to the demise of her beloved husband, Dick Cain. As might be expected, this is a sad story, but not only. Right up until the very end, about ten years ago, the couple was able to express their love of one another and, thanks to their mutual love of language, An...

Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, whose main interests include philosophy of mind, metaphysics, the nature of belief, the impact or lack thereof of ethical thinking on behavior, and classical Chinese philosophy. He is the author of four books:  Perplexities of Consciousness , published in 2011,  Descri...

Stephen Marche is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and journalist, a scholar of philosophy and literature, and a former teacher of Renaissance drama at the City University of New York, resigning in 2007 to pursue a full-time writing career ever since. He has written five novels, numerous essays for  The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic , and  The Guardian,  and four works...

Rebekah Peeples is the Deputy Dean of the College at Princeton University with oversight of the undergraduate curriculum. Previously at Princeton, she taught sociology and writing. She is also the author of two books:  Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century,  published in 2014, and  Unchanged Trebles: What Boy Choirs Teach Us About Motherhood and Masculi...

Emma Duval is a self-described member of the “millennial generation,” who include the growing number of women who are childless and as, Emma puts it, “childfree” by choice. Although now married, Duval’s early inspirations were independent, unmarried women, and as a teenager she contemplated becoming a nun in rejection of societal norms surrounding marriage. She is the author-illustr...

Suzanne Mettler is a senior professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including  The Submerged State and Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream,  published in 2014,  The Government-Citizen Disconnect,  published in 2018,  Four Threats: The Recu...

Philip Connors  is a National Parks Service fire watcher in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness since 2002. In addition to essays in the  New York Times  and  Los Angeles Times , Connors is the author of  Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout,  published in 2011;  All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found , published in 2015; and  A Song fo...

Ira Chaleff is past President of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates and award-winning author of several books, including  The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders , published in 2009;  Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong , published in 2015;  Intelligent Disobedience for Children: A Handbook for Parents...

Tim Franks has been a journalist with the BBC since 1990, as a producer, reporter, and presenter. He has covered British politics, including the conflict Northern Ireland in the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement, as well as international issues, as a foreign correspondent on the scene in Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, and in war zones, such as Iraq during the war of 2003, a...

Sophie Pavelle is a U.S. born and UK-based science writer and communicator, whose debut book,  Forget Me Not: Finding The Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain , won The People’s Book Prize for Non-Fiction (2023) and was long-listed for the 2023 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. She worked for conservation charity Beaver Trust for four years, presenting their awar...

Amin Saikal is an emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies at the Australian National University, where he was also the Founding Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. He has won several academic awards and is a member of many national and international academic organizations. In addition to numerous articles in international journals, he has also...

  Henry ("Hank") Greenspan is an emeritus psychologist and oral historian in Holocaust studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, award-winning playwright and actor, lyricist, essayist, and poet, and social activist in the area of healthcare rights. During the interview he’ll be performing one of the monologues from his remarkable play,  REMNANTS , in which he channels the perso...

Psychologists  Diane Ehrensaft  and  Michelle Jurkiewicz are the co-authors of the recently published book,  Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World.  Diane is cofounder and director of mental health at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is also a researcher and professor of...

Remi Adekoya is a political science lecturer at the University of York in the UK, focusing on national and sub-national identities and their role in international relations, especially as they affect Africa. Before joining academia, Remi was a journalist, whose writing appeared in major mainstream publications in Europe, the U.S. and Africa. He has also provided analysis and commentary f...

Maggie Mertens is a journalist in Seattle, who covers gender, culture, and sports. She has written essays and stories for such major publications as  The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic,  and  The Guardian  and has also been interviewed on NPR affiliates, as well as national and regional television and numerous podcasts. In 2021, she was nominated for the Dan Jenkins Med...

Iñigo García-Bryce is a history professor at New Mexico State University and the director of NMSU’s Center for Latin American and Border Studies from 2011-2016. His research focuses on Latin American social and political history. He is the author of Crafting the Republic: Lima’s Artisans and Nation-Building in Peru, 1821-1879, published in 2004 and Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in Peru...

Aziz Huq  is a professor of comparative and constitutional law at the University of Chicago, focusing recently on democratic backsliding and the regulation of Artificial Intelligence. He has written articles for  Politico , the  Washington Post , the  New York Times , and other mainstream publications, in addition to many scholarly articles, and award-winning books, includ...

Rachel Laryea is a Ghanaian-American entrepreneur and author of the recently published book,  Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible.  She secured a summer an internship at Goldman-Sachs while still in college at NYU and upon graduation was offered a high-paying job there, thereby introducing her to the cutthroat, hyper-competitive world of high finance. She left that world...

Shoumita Dasgupta is a Professor of Medicine at Boston University, where she has held many leadership positions. She is Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, formerly Assistant Dean of Admissions, Founding Director of Graduate Studies in Genetics and Genomics; Past President of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics, and Fulbright Specialist, serving as a U.S. State Depar...

Meg Kissinger  is an investigative journalist for the  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,  who spent more than two decades reporting on the failures of the American mental health system. She has won more than a dozen national honors, including two George Polk Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy National Journalism Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She had her first big break a...

David Pengelley is a retired math professor from New Mexico State University (NMSU). We'll be talking about math education, math history, and learning math from primary source material. Dr. Pengelley, who also does original theoretical as well as historical mathematical research, rediscovered the work of the first known female research mathematician, Sophie Germain. Recorded 7/21/20.

Mariah Blake is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in  The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones,  and  The New Republic . She was a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University. Blake is the author of the recently published,  They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. The book investigates the...

Jessy Randall  is curator of special collections at Colorado College and the author of several poetry collections, including:  Suicide Hotline Hold Music , (which includes her own accompanying comics),  There Was an Old Woman ,  Injecting Dreams into Cows,  and  A Day in Boyland,  which was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She has also written a young...