Delving In with Stuart Kelter

Iñigo García-Bryce is a Professor of History at New Mexico State University since 1999, whose research focuses on Latin America, especially Peru, where he grew up. His books include  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 Twentieth Century Peru and Latin America , pu...

Kevin Mitchell  is a professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College, Dublin. His research focuses on the genetic program for the wiring of the brain, as it affects psychiatric and neurological diseases, as well as perceptual conditions, such as synaesthesia. He is editor of  The Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders , published in 2015, is the author of  Innate: How th...

Audrey Kurth Cronin is one of the world’s leading experts on security and how conflicts end. A Professor of Security and Technology, she was the founding director of the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology at American University, the director of War and Statecraft at the US National War College, and a Specialist in Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service, advising Members o...

Anita Diamant is a novelist, journalist, essayist, and author of five guidebooks to contemporary Jewish life on such topics as weddings, parenting, and mourning practices. As a journalist, her feature stories and columns in the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal included profiles of prominent people, stories about medical ethics, and first-person essays about everything from politics to popu...

Meg Weston is a photographer and poet whose frequent subject is volcanoes. Based in Maine, she has traveled around the world pursuing her desire, as she puts it, to witness the power and beauty of the earth in its raw processes of creation and transformation. Her poetry and photography express her connection to the earth in all its sensual, emotional, and spiritual power. Meg’s images can be seen...

Paul Scharre is the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the  Center for a New American Security , an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization that develops strong, pragmatic, and principled national security and defense policies. An expert in emerging weapons technologies, he led working groups at the U.S. Department of Defense to establish policies on autonomous w...

Elie Honig is a former federal and state prosecutor for over fourteen years at the renowned Southern District of New York and later as deputy director of New Jersey’s Division of Criminal Justice. He prosecuted and tried cases involving organized crime, public corruption, and human trafficking, achieving convictions of over 100 members of the American mafia, including members o...

Dean Buonomano is a neuroscientist at UCLA since 1998, and a leading researcher of the neuroscience of time. His first book,  Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives , was a  Wall Street Journal   bestseller.  Buonomano is the rare combination of cutting edge researcher and talented and engaging communicator of science to the general public. He has been interview...

Sushma Subramanian is a freelance journalist and associate professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Her writing on science and health has appeared in  Slate, The Atlantic, Scientific American,  and  Discover . She has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and was the winner of a Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award. She...

Chantel Prat ,  is a Professor at the University of Washington in the Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, with affiliations at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, the Center for Neurotechnology, and the Institute for Neuroengineering. A cognitive neuroscientist by training, her interdisciplinary research investigates the biological basis of individual differen...

Lisa Bortolotti is a philosopher at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., focusing on the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She investigates faulty reasoning and irrational beliefs; delusions, confabulations and distorted memories; and the limitations of self-knowledge given our unreliable self narratives and self-deception. She is the author, co-author, and editor of several books on s...

Gregg Sparkman is a professor of Social Psychology, who directs the Social Influence and Social Change Lab at Boston College. Using national surveys and field studies, his research focuses on harnessing the power of social influence, identity, moral reasoning, and beliefs to enhance the possibility of significant change. The findings can translate into large scale motivational interventions, in co...

Susannah Sirkin is the Director of Policy and a senior advisor at  Physicians for Human Rights  (PHR), where she has worked since 1987. From 1992 to 2001 she served as a member of the Coordination Committee of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was the co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace. She has organized health and human rights investigations in dozens of cou...

Sarah Haavind is a Senior Research Project Manager -- and specialist in asynchronous learning -- at  Concord Consortium , a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts, and Emeryville, California.  From the earliest days of the Internet, Sarah has devoted her career to the development of creative and engaging online curricula for...

David Wallace is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in the philosophy of physics. He is interested in emergence and reductionism, structural realism, decision theory, and especially the Everett interpretation of quantum theory, often called the “Many-Worlds Interpretation. His book on that topic, entitled,  The Emergent Multiverse , was published...

Stefan Rinke is a professor at the Department of History at the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute at the Free University of Berlin. He was awarded the Alzate research award by the Mexican Academy of Sciences, an honorary doctorate by the The National University of General San Martín in Argentina, as well as the Einstein Research Fellowship. His latest book,&...

  Ilyon Woo is a  New York Times  best-selling author, whose writing has appeared in the  Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine , and  The New York Times . She is the author of two books, each of which combines history and biography, based on painstaking research and employing a novelistic, narrative writing style. Her first book,  T...

  Dorothy L. Hodgson is the recently retired Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Previously she served as President of the African Studies Association, Chair and Graduate Director of the Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Institute for Research on Women, all at Rutgers U...

Richard Ambron is a Columbia University professor emeritus of cell biology, anatomy, and pathology, specializing in neuroscience research, working in the same lab as Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, Eric Kandel. For 25 years, he taught clinical anatomy to medical and dental students and was ten times voted teacher of the year. For forty years he ran a neuro-research lab at Columbia, focusi...

Sarah Lamb is a professor of cultural anthropology at Brandeis University, who focuses on how people construct their socio-cultural world and identity from the interlocking multiple dimensions of age, gender, the body, family, religion, and nation. From the points of view of those she studies, she explores the experiences and the often taken-for-granted assumptions of people in West Bengal, India...

Helen Epstein is an acclaimed writer of memoir, journalism, and biography. In her career as a journalist she interviewed such legendary musicians as Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein, and Yo-Yo Ma. She is the author of three books about the transmission of intergenerational trauma. The first,  Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors  was originall...

Philippa Strum  is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center’s former Director of the Division of United States Studies. For two decades, she was a Professor of Political Science and is now Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, focusing on constitutional law; civil liberties and human rights, especially the intersection of...

New Mexico State University physics professors, Boris Kiefer and Matthew Sievert, explain in everyday language the strange, yet fundamental, phenomena of quantum physics. Boris Kiefer has been at NMSU since 2003, following post-docs at Princeton. His research and teaching interests include Quantum Mechanics; Computational Physics; Materials Science, and even more esoterically, Quantum Te...

Shilpa Raj was one of five girls featured in the four-part Netflix documentary,  Daughters of Destiny , about growing up from age four in a residential school called  Shanti Bhavan  in Tamil Nadu, India, near Bangalore. Founded by and originally fully funded by Indian-American businessman and philanthropist, Abraham George, the school’s mission is to help children and their families...

Hilary Lips is a Professor Emerita of Social Psychology at Radford University, where she founded the Center for Gender Studies, was its director from 1989 to 2015, and was also the chair of the Department of Psychology from 2003 to 2015. She is the author of a variety of books, including  Women, Men and the Psychology of Power ;  Sex and Gender: An Introduction ;&nbsp...