This Guy Sucked

Claire and Dr. Roel Konijnendijk talk trash about ancient Athens’ most treacherous twink. Guest Our guest Dr. Roel Konijnendijk is a Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Oxford. Follow him on Bluesky or find him on r/AskHistorians . Sensitive Themes & Topics Murder/violence and warfare Credits - Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin &nbsp...

Claire and Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd grade the man behind Mississippi’s mid-century campus culture wars. He (unsurprisingly) gets an F. Guest Our guest Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities, and the host of American Campus . Her book Resistance From The Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is available here . Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky , or v...

Claire and Dr. Zack Furness let loose on the antisemitic calorie-counting surveillance pervert behind America’s most mediocre homegrown auto manufacturer. Guest Our guest Dr. Zack Furness an Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny. His book One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility is available here . Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram , or visit...

Claire and Dr. Moiya McTier ascend to the heavens and nuke 2nd century astrophilosophers from orbit. Guest Our guest Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrofolklorist and the host of Pale Blue Pod . Her book The Milky Way: An Autobiography Of Our Galaxy, is available here . Follow her on Twitter and on Instagram , or visit her website here . Credits - Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her o...

Claire and Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray flip the script on one of the world’s first French poets with our inaugural This Guy Rocked episode. Guest Our guest Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray is a Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing at Baylor University and the founder of The Greats Story Lab . Follow her on Twitter and visit her website . To learn more about Marie’s incredible stories, SJ and Claire also r...

Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion. Guest Our guest Dr. Jonathan Fine is a Germanist specializing in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbfine and on Bluesky @jonathanbfine , or visit his website . Sensitive Themes & Topics Antisemitism Credits - Host & Execut...

Claire and Dr. Madeleine Baker set out on an intrepid journey deep into the heart of darkness itself: Harvard Business School. Guest Our guest Dr. Madeleine Baker is a historian of labor and lecturer at Harvard. Her new book Make Your Own Job: How The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America is out now with Harvard University Press. Follow her on Twitter @ madeleineebaker and on Bluesky madele...

Claire and Dr. Matt Lodder discover why being born left-handed and a woman mean they missed out on their real calling: a life of crime. Guest Our guest Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. His newest book Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art is now out with Yale University Press. Follow him on Twitter @mattlodder and on Bluesky mattlodde...

Claire and Dr. Andrew Hartman discuss Marxism, labor movements, and why everybody’s favorite presidents might’ve made things a whole lot worse. Guest Our guest Dr. Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. His newest book Karl Marx in America , is available for pre-order from University of Chicago Press. Follow him on Twitter @hartmanandrew and Bluesky andrewhartman ....

Want to hear the rest of this episode? Hear the full conversation only on Patreon Claire and Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique attempt to answer an age-old question: what’s Scotland’s whole deal?  Guest Our guest Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early...

Claire and Dr. Matthew Gabriele go on a holy crusade to figure out what’s up with Charlemagne the Actually-Not-That-Great. Guest Our guest Dr. Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech. His new book with David M. Perry, Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe is available here . Follow him on Bluesky profgabriele or visit his w...

Claire and Dr. Drew McKevitt go to the gun range. Not really, but there are definitely some shots fired. Guest Our guest Dr. Drew Mckevitt is a professor of History at Louisiana Tech. His book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America , is available here . Follow him on Twitter @drewmckevitt and Bluesky drewmckevitt Sensitive Themes & Topics Racism, gun violence Cre...

Claire and Dr. Robert Komaniecki ask an important question: was Jerry Lee Lewis a gigantic jerk to everyone, about everything? Their answer will absolutely not surprise you. Guest Our guest Dr. Robert Komaniecki is a lecturer in music theory and music history at the University of British Columbia. Follow him on Twitter @Komaniecki_R and on Bluesky @komaniecki Sensitive Themes & Topics Racism,...

Claire sits down with Dr. Eleanor Janega to talk Candide-ly (get it?) about the guy who ruined medieval studies. Guest Our guest Dr. Eleanor Janega is a medieval historian and host of the podcast We’re Not So Different and History Hit TV’s Going Medieval. Her book, The Once and Future Sex, is available here . Follow her on Twitter @GoingMedieval and on Instagram @dreleanorjanega , or visit her web...

This Guy Sucked is a history podcast for haters, by haters. Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the world’s worst guys and gals - from the beloved to the relatively unknown. No historically-significant dead person is safe, and every episode proves that the best part of understanding the past is criticizing it. New episodes every Thursda...