In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast

In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer in American Religious History and Ethics at Harvard Divinity School, about her new book, Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2019). You can find her article, "Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Characte...

Sarah Pickman, a PhD candidate at Yale University, speaks with Michael Robinson, a professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford, about history and podcasting. Robinson started his blog and associated podcast, "Time to Eat the Dogs," in 2008, and has used it as a platform to interview scholars about their work in the history of science and exploration.

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, about her new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020).

John Raimo, a founding editor of the JHI Blog and PhD candidate at New York University, interviews Professor Gisèle Sapiro of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. They discuss her new book, "Les écrivains et la politique en France : De l’affaire Dreyfus à la guerre d’Algérie" (Seuil, 2018).

Brendan Mackie, the host of "The Making of a Historian" podcast (https://www.historian.live/), speaks with Professor Joshua Fogel of York University about his book 'A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War' (Association for Asian Studies, 2019).

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Christopher Cameron, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about his new book Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019).

In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Nasser Zakariya , Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, about his book A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

In Theory: With Priyamvada Gopal by JHIdeas

In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Professor Carhart about his new book: Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Disha Karna Jani speaks with Professor Emma Kuby about her new work Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell, 2019).

A discussion of Professor Case's 2018 "The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond."

Political Myth in Blumenberg's thought: Dr. Andrew Hines interviews Prof. Angus Nicholls by JHIdeas

Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Prof. Adom Getachew by JHIdeas

Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Eli Cook by JHIdeas

Simon Brown interviews Sophia Rosenfeld by JHIdeas

Boundaries of the International: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Jennifer Pitts by JHIdeas

Richard Calis and Lillian Datchev interview Pamela Long by JHIdeas

Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder about their Theses on Theory and History.

Introduced by Oz Frankel, Joan Wallach Scott and Gary Wilder discuss “Theses on Theory and History" at the New School on October 8, 2018.

Conversation with Eli Cook on "The Pricing of Progress" by JHIdeas

In today’s podcast, our Editor Sarah Dunstan speaks with Professor Stefanos Geroulanos about his latest book Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (Stanford University Press, 2017).

In our inaugural podcast, Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng speaks with Prof. Surekha Davies about her book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history.

Hosted by John Handel, with Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (UChicago, 2015); William Deringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (HUP, 2018); and Jamie Pietruska, Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America (UChicago, 2017);