Academic Podcast Roundup
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A short daily podcast hosted by Mount Holyoke College president Lynn Pasquerella for Albany's WAMC and featuring researchers speaking briefly about a wide range of topics, from gender in academia to alcohol dependence treatment.
Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast on KPSU, sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History, and currently run by history students, Lily Hart and Madelyn Miller. Beyond Footnotes features interviews with the talented faculty and students of PSU, as well as local historians. It provides a forum for them to share their work with each other and the community. The show was co-created and formerly hosted by Ryan Wisnor and Joshua Justice of Dive Audio
"A podcast on everythwere the life sciences meet the biological sciences with Dr. Dan Quintana and Dr. James Heathers." A bi-weekly conversation-style podcast about the nuts & bolts of scientific research and academic life issues, like writing and publishing, the PhD to Postdoc transition, and work-life balance.
In this podcast series, Robert Denning and James Fennessy of Southern New Hampshire University interview historians inside and outside academia to find out what they do with their lives. So far Rob and James have interviewed a presidential library archivist, elected government official, consultants, cultural resource managers, museum curators, doctoral students, and professors, among others. Interviewees talk about their academic and professional backgrounds, their current projects, and, of particular interest to current students in history, how they built their professional careers.
Rob Denning can be reached at snhuhistory@gmail.com or r.denning@snhu.edu. James Fennessy can be reached at j.fennessy@snhu.edu. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.
A series of episodes produced in 2012 and 2013 by Alex Gallarza, Andrea Zellner, and Benjamin Sawyer, PhD students at Michigan State University, in which they discuss topics related to graduate school life, academia, and the digital humanities. The podcast was produced as a companion to the GradHacker blog (before it moved to Insider Higher Ed).
The Harvard EdCast is a weekly series of podcasts from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that features 15-20 minute conversations with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world. Hosted by Matt Weber, the Harvard EdCast is a space for educational discourse and openness, focusing on the myriad issues and current events related to the field.
Harvard Medical School scientists tackle a variety of important questions, ranging from how your neurons work to which genes play a role in particular diseases. This podcast provides context and highlights the latest trends in medical education and biomedical research through interviews and analysis.
This weekly podcast from the BBC features interviews with historians on a wide variety of topics.
History graduate students, Jen Vannette (Central Michigan University), Katie Krawetzke (Central Michigan Unviersity), and Alex Greff (University of Minnesota) share stories from their experiences as graduate students. Topics include what it's like to study history, be a grad student, and teach.
A new interview podcast that describes itself as "about the people and projects bridging art, activism, and academia to build better worlds ... creators who use culture for social justice and explore the nitty-gritty work of imagining and creating more just worlds," hosted by editor, indexer, and academic consultant Cathy Hannabach.
American Studies
A podcast about ten landmark American Presidents hosted by producer Roifield Brown and featuring expert narrators on each president's public career.
A podcast for educators, students, and history buffs about Texas, US, and World History featuring historians from the University of Texas at Austin.
Fifty episodes examining the history of central Florida through local area objects found in museums, historical organizations, and other places produced by UCF Associate Professor of history and H-Net VP for Research & Publications Robert Cassanello and students in his Historical Documentary and New Media class.
A public radio show and podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh that give historical perspective to topics in the headlines.
A new podcast produced by the collaborative project "Global History of Sports in the Cold War," part of the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project. Led by Robert Edelman (UC San Diego) and Robert Edelman (University of Cambridge), the research project has had conferences in Moscow and New York, and some of the participating scholars have contributed so far to the podcast. The host and producer of the podcast is Vince Hunt, who has been a producer and reporter for the BBC.
A list of podcast episodes and audio compiled by the H-Haiti network of Haiti-related content.
Heartland History, hosted by Jon Lauck and produced by Dana Brown, is the podcast of the Midwestern History Association.
The Midwestern History Association, created in the fall of 2014, is dedicated to rebuilding the field of Midwestern history, which has suffered from decades of neglect and inattention. The MHA will advocate for greater attention to Midwestern history among professional historians, seek to rebuild the infrastructure necessary for the study of the American Midwest, promote greater academic discourse relating to Midwestern history, support the work of the new journal Middle West Review and other journals which promote the study of the Midwest, and offer prizes to scholars who excel in the study of the Midwest.
Heartland History is extension of the MHA's mission with16 episodes featuring academics and public historians. The podcast is currently available on SoundCloud. or at the MHA website.
An accessible new American history podcast hosted by College of Holy Cross historian Edward T. O'Donnell.
A podcast shared by H-DC that explores the lingusitics of Washington D.C. This episode was reported by Matthew S. Schawrtz and produced by WAMU 88.5.
Interviews and series from the Library of Congress, like Digital Preservation, Voices from the Days of Slavery, or Alan Lomax and the Soundscapes of the Upper Midwest.
Anthropology
The Familiar Strange is a podcast about doing anthropology: that is, about listening, looking, trying out, and being with, in pursuit of uncommon knowledge about humans and culture. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and all the other familiar places. Find show notes, plus our blog about anthropology's role in the world, at www.thefamiliarstrange.com.
Recent episodes: "#19 Anthro & policy-making, digital disruption, online research, & what is love? This month on TFS", "#18 What taste is made of: Brad Weiss talks pig farming and the meaning of food in America"
Twitter: @tfsTweets. FB: facebook.com/thefamiliarstrange. Instagram: @thefamiliarstrange.
Brought to you by your familiar strangers: Ian Pollock, Jodie-Lee Trembath, Julia Brown, and Simon Theobald, four PhD candidates in anthropology at Australian National University, with support from the Australian Anthropological Society, the Australian National University’s Schools of Culture, History and Language and Archeology and Anthropology, and the Australian Centre for Public Awareness of Science, and produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association.
We acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we record this podcast, and pay our respects to the elders of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, past, present, and emerging.
Architecture
An interview podcast with authors about architecture from the New Books Network.
A podcast that explores the built environment and design hosted by producer and Radiotopia founder Roman Mars.
The AIA Podnet discusses architecture, urban planning, and design with practitioners. The podcast is no longer active, but an archive of episodes can be found on Soundcloud.
The Archispeak podcast, hosted by Evan Troxel, Neal Pann, and Cormac Phalen, is an every-other-week show about architecture as a profession. The hour-long show features interviews with architects about a variety of topics. Listeners may like to start with the episode on A Day in the Life.
The ArchitectChats is the official podcast of ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects. It features interviews with architects "working at the cutting edge of design, technology, and practice," about news and trends in architecture and design. Episodes come out approximately twice monthly.
The Architectural Association of Ireland has a podcast that discusses architecture in Ireland and further afield. Each episode features a conversation with a national or international figure from the field of architecture, art or design about their work, their thinking, and their process.
Started in 2005, Design Matters with Debbie Millman was the first design podcast distributed on iTunes. Produced out of the Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and hosted by designer, author, educator, and brand strategist Millman, the show features interviews with designers and a wide variety of luminaries and cultural commentators about design and creative culture.
On the Grid was a conversation podcast where hosts Andy Mangold, Dan Auer, and Matt McInerney discussed design through recent events and news. The show ran from July 2012 through March 2016.
This weekly podcast, hosted by Russell Manthy, managing director of IA Interior Architects' Houston office, offers an insider's look inside a working architecture firm. Issues discussed include design, strategy, culture, and sustainability. The show features discussions and interviews with architects, designers, and strategists. Particularly interesting are the two parter on the History of the Astrodome of Houston (1, 2) and the episodes on An International Design Education and Repositioning an Historic Building.
The Royal Academy of Arts has a podcast collection that talks about architecture, recommendations, and interviews with individuals in the field.
Art
An interview podcast with authors about architecture from the New Books Network.
This eight-part podcast is a lecture series on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in the Western philosophical tradition, presented by University of Oxford philosophy professor James Grant.
The Art Gallery of Ontario podcast shares audio of artist talks, tours, symposia, and other gallery events, as well as thematic series, such as Into the Anthropocene: Our Impact on Earth, and a lecture series on Catherine the Great.
ArtCurious Podcast explores the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in Art History. The ArtCurious Podcast is written, produced, and hosted by Jennifer Dasal, a contemporary arts curator with nearly twenty years of art-historical studies and experience.
Hosted by Jon Kay, Director of Traditional Arts Indiana and Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, this series covers a wide range of material culture topics, interviews with folklorists, artisans, archivists, genealogists, and more.
A podcast series from the Mathers Museum of World Culture hosted by MMWC Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Jon Kay, it features interviews with museum professionals and culture workers.
Begun in 2005 as a record of course lectures by photographer and Professor Emeritus of Photography Jeff Curto, this podcast has morphed into more a more focused series of episodes on selected topics in the history of photography.
Ten short episode series produced for BBC 4 radio that traces the story of ten antiquities and cultural sites, like the Winged-Bull of Nineveh or the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, presented by author and journalist Kanishk Tharoor.
A new arts and culture podcast from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Raw Material’s first season, Otherworld, is hosted by Bay Area artist and writer Ross Simonini, and documents artists who work with the unknown. Rituals, hauntings, magic—the podcast's first six-episode season conjures these topics and more.
The Royal Academy of Arts has a podcast collection that talks about architecture, recommendations, and interviews with individuals in the field.
Asian Studies
An interview podcast produced by the Asia Society that interviews scholars, journalists, and Asia experts who illuminate the politics, economics, arts, and culture in the region.
A podcast hosted by journalist Eric Fish, writer, researcher & analyst Hudson Lockett, and journalist Nicole Sy that answers young China watchers' questions about Chinese society and culture, produced by Project Pengyou, the alumni network for President Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, committed to building bridges between the US and China through such topics as Chinese literature, Chinese Christianity, philosophy, LGBT issues, Chinese apolotical youth, and more.
Hosted by amateur historian (and LA-based businessman long involved in China trade) Laszlo Montgomery, this podcast aims to cover 5,000 years of Chinese history from ancient to modern, looking at dynasties, historical persons, culture, and more, including multi-part series on the History of Tea, Zhou Enlai, the History of Hong Kong, and more.
A podcast about East Asian popular culture and media. Hosted by two historians, Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki, the podcast uses East Asian pop culture products - including movies, television, fiction, and memoirs - to understand different aspects of East Asia life and culture.
A weekly podcast covering the entire span of Japanese history, from prehistoric to modern day, produced by Isaac Meyer, a PhD student at the University of Washington.
10-part series on tea in China by Laszlo Montgomery on The China History Podcast.
An interview podcast about East Asian history with authors hosted by, among others, historian and H-Podcast advisory board member Carla Nappi.
An interview podcast with authors of new books in South Asian studies, hosted by sociologist and H-Podcast subscriber Ian Cook.
A series about premodern Japanese history, from ancient Japan to the end of the Samurai, featuring historiographically engaged discussions of culture, warfare, and literature, as well as interviews.
A podcast produced by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, the Sinica Podcast is a weekly English-language show hosted by Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and occasional guests discussing current affairs and social, cultural, and political issues in China.
Classical Studies
Ten short episode series produced for BBC 4 radio that traces the story of ten antiquities and cultural sites, like the Winged-Bull of Nineveh or the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, presented by author and journalist Kanishk Tharoor.
Current Events
Cold Call distills the Harvard Business School’s legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by Brian Kenny, the podcast airs every two weeks and features HBS faculty discussing cases they’ve written and the lessons they impart.
From CBC Radio, 5 podcasts that cover landmark stories from Olympic Games throughout the years.
A public radio show and podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh that give historical perspective to topics in the headlines.
A compliation of podcasts from hosted by various CNN reporters and analyst. These podcasts focus on the impact of Brexit and how the UK's decision will impact the world.
Produced by podcaster Siobhan Barco for the H-Law network, this series interviews legal historians and touches on all areas of legal history. The first episode interviews Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate.
The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance, and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers, and decision makers.
History Talks brings smart conversations about today’s most interesting topics. Podcast topics include Korean History, American politics, and Sub-Sahara Africa. Each episode of History Talks features different experts in the subject and is produced by the History Department at The Ohio State University.
History graduate students, Jen Vannette (Central Michigan University), Katie Krawetzke (Central Michigan Unviersity), and Alex Greff (University of Minnesota) share stories from their experiences as graduate students. Topics include what it's like to study history, be a grad student, and teach.
A podcast shared by H-DC that explores the lingusitics of Washington D.C. This episode was reported by Matthew S. Schawrtz and produced by WAMU 88.5.
Ten short episode series produced for BBC 4 radio that traces the story of ten antiquities and cultural sites, like the Winged-Bull of Nineveh or the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, presented by author and journalist Kanishk Tharoor.
Economics
A new world history podcast produced by graduate students at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. The first episode features PhD Candidate Malcolm Purinton on why the pilsner came to dominate the beer world, through the British Empire, globalization, trade, technologies, science, and consumption.
A compliation of podcasts from hosted by various CNN reporters and analyst. These podcasts focus on the impact of Brexit and how the UK's decision will impact the world.
The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance, and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers, and decision makers.
This episode from Radiolab highlights the five-part series from On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone. Questions of American poverty and debunking "Security Blanket" myths are discussed. In addition, we learn a little about Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
A monthly interview podcast that tries to explain how capitalism has changed over time, hosted by Betsy Beasley and David Stein.
Hosted by the Southern Labor Studies Association president and H-Podcast advisory board member Beth English, this podcast seeks to inform public debate and dialogue about some of today's key labor, economic, and political issues with the benefit of historical context.
Environment
A podcast that explores the built environment and design hosted by producer and Radiotopia founder Roman Mars.
The AIA Podnet discusses architecture, urban planning, and design with practitioners. The podcast is no longer active, but an archive of episodes can be found on Soundcloud.
The Art Gallery of Ontario podcast shares audio of artist talks, tours, symposia, and other gallery events, as well as thematic series, such as Into the Anthropocene: Our Impact on Earth, and a lecture series on Catherine the Great.
A podcast about environmental issues and interests in the Great Lakes region. Produced for Great Lakes Echo and supported by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
A podcast about human societies and the environment in the past, featuring interviews with people working in the field, reports on conferences and discussions abou thte use and methods of environmental history produced by K.Jan Oosthoek, an environmental historian and an Associate Member of the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University.
Nature’s Past is a quarterly audio podcast about the environmental history research community in Canada. The podcast examines the field of environmental history through interviews, round-table discussions, and lectures. Founded in 2008, Nature’s Past has explored a variety of topics and issues in environment history, including: forestry education, fisheries, urban environments, non-human animals, industrialization, environmental justice, digital humanities, natural resource conflicts, traditional ecological knowledge, rivers, and e-waste.
The Plan is a weekly architecture and design talk show on Radio Adelaide 101.5fm. The show discusses all things architecture, environment and affect and gets a conversation going on integrated design issues and practices in and around Adelaide. Weekly features will profile local designers, practices and thinkers from all corners of the built environment.
Hosted by John Byleveld, Martin Ridge, Sharon MacKay and Dr Jo Russell-Clarke and proudly supported by the Australian Institute of Architecture – SA Chapter (AIA/SA), Design Institute of Australia (DIA/SA), Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture – SA Chapter (AILA/SA), University of South Australia – School of Art, Architecture & Design, Adelaide University – School of Architecture and Built Environment, Planning Institute Australia SA Chapter (PIA/SA) and the Office of Design and Architecture South Australia (ODASA)
Food
Culinary historian Linda Pelacchio discusses food history with academic historians, cookbook authors, and chefs. This long-running weekly podcast has over 200 back episodes to enjoy as well as new weekly content. Hosted by Heritage Radio in Brooklyn, NY.
The best interviews are more recent (2014 on) and feature serious food historians who have generally published books on the subject being discussed.
A new world history podcast produced by graduate students at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. The first episode features PhD Candidate Malcolm Purinton on why the pilsner came to dominate the beer world, through the British Empire, globalization, trade, technologies, science, and consumption.
Produced by the Southern Foodways Aliance, this podcast shares stories of the changing American South through its foods.
10-part series on tea in China by Laszlo Montgomery on The China History Podcast.
Preserves: A Manitoba Food History Podcast explores the rich history of Manitoba food and the people who make it, sell it, and eat it. Preserves considers the cultural, social, and commercial aspects of Manitoba food and what it means to us. The podcast is produced by the Manitoba Food History Project research team and hosted by Kent Davies (Oral History Centre) and food and business historian, Janis Thiessen (University of Winnipeg).
Preserves is a part of the The Manitoba Food History Project, an oral history project based out of the University of Winnipeg, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, together with support from Diversity Foods, the University of Winnipeg Research Office, and the UW Oral History Centre. The goal of our project team is to produce a comprehensive history of food manufacturing, production, retailing, and consumption in the province of Manitoba from 1870 to the present day through digital scholarship and public history.
A bi-weekly blog on the intersection between food, race, gender, and class.
A project of Traditional Arts Indiana, the Folklore and Folklife center for the Hoosier State, this podcast criss-crosses the state to collect interviews and recipes, perform taste-tests, and produce an entertaining audio program.
Did you know Andrew Jackson once threw a dinner party where guests ate nothing but cheese?
That a 17th century pope once spent $25,000 on sugar sculptures?
And just why was Marie Antoinette so hung up about cake?
The Feast podcast presents delectable stories from the dining tables of history. Using an immersive story-driven experience, each episode gives you a seat at the table of a historical meal. Make bread with medieval monks; share a martini with Churchill. Find out what wars were won & which kingdoms were lost all for the sake of a good meal.
Gender
"Sew What?" is a podcast about historic needlework and the gals who stitched it, hosted by historic needlework expert. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. New episodes out every Thursday.
A podcast covering each episode of The Golden Girls television show from a scholarly perspective, incorporating feminist and gender studies, archetypal patterns, eldercare and healthcare concerns, and more.
Enough Wicker features academic papers, journal publications, and social science guest posts and TED talks on scholarly themes in The Golden Girls, as well as interviews with guest scholars such as Elliott Powell of University of Minnesota, Deborah Macey of University of Portland, and more.
A production of the Bancroft Library's Oral History Center at the University of California, Berkeley, this six-episode series seeks to showcase important interviews in the library collection with women who, against tremendous odds, broke through glass ceilings and forged their own paths in the political arena. The episodes chart the political advancement of women in the United States through the lives and achievements of ten noteworthy pioneers from universal suffrage and elected office to community organizing and brokering party politics. Narrated by Belva Davis, researched and written by Todd Holmes, and produced and edited by Shanna Farrel and Cristina Kim.
Hosted by The New Republic senior editor Jamil Smith, a bi-weekly podcast about issues of race, gender, and identity.
Conversation with Timothy Stewart-Winter on his new book Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics published by Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press.
Podcast conversations with authors of new books in women, gender and sexuality.
In each episode, fairy tale and media studies scholar Dr. Shannan Palma, founding faculty director of the graduate program in writing and digital communication at Agnes Scott College, and award-winning survivor advocate Wanda Swan, director of the Office of Respect at Emory University, sit down with a special guest for a creative, laughter-filled conversation that both celebrates and critiques Disney’s influences on generations of Americans. Tracing the fairy tales’ origins in folklore and significant adaptations in cinema, season one’s six episodes focus on Disney’s fairy tale adaptations, both animated and live-action, and center the voices and perspectives of people of color and LGBT and queer individuals. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud.
From the Southern Oral History Program, this podcast showcases the richness of our archive of nearly 6,000 interviews with people from across the South. We discuss the interpretive, ethical, pedagogical, and technological complexities of learning history by interviewing people who lived it. Recent episodes have covered LGBTQ life in the South; feminism; segregation in the rural south; how to handle and interpret silences; emotion; and what to do when pets interrupt your interview! Subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss next month's episode.
Sexing History is a new podcast that examines how the history of sexuality shapes present day cultures and politics.
This podcastis hosted by historians Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman. Sexing History uses oral histories, archival sound clips, commentary and analysis, and interviews with other scholars in the field to tell compelling stories about the past to illuminate the sexual politics of our present.
Our first episode looks at the story of Aaron Fricke. In 1980, Aaron sued his Rhode Island school district after they prohibited him from bringing his same-sex partner to prom. We are delighted that Aaron shared his story with us and you can access the episode on our website.
The second episode tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, an African American abortion provider, who was charged with manslaughter for performing a legal abortion shortly after Roe v Wade.
Our most recent episode explores the history of the postwar obsession with large breasts in the United States and the products sold to women to enhance their bodies.
You can subscribe to our podcasts through iTunes, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sexing-history/id1264132399, Feedburner, http://feeds.feedburner.com/SexingHistory, and Stitcher, https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sexing-history?refid=stpr, and please head over to our website, www.sexinghistory.com, for more information or to get a sneak peak of future episodes.
Sexing History
Gillian Frank--host and co-creator
Lauren Gutterman--host and co-creator
Rebecca L Davis--producer and story editor
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A popular podcast that introduces listeners to female characters in history, factional or fictional, through lively audio and in-depth show notes by podcasters Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider.
History
"Sew What?" is a podcast about historic needlework and the gals who stitched it, hosted by historic needlework expert. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. New episodes out every Thursday.
A podcast about ten landmark American Presidents hosted by producer Roifield Brown and featuring expert narrators on each president's public career.
A history lecture podcast about the Byzantine Empire through the study of twelve of its rulers, hosted and produced by author, speaker, and podcaster Lars Brownworth.
A podcast for educators, students, and history buffs about Texas, US, and World History featuring historians from the University of Texas at Austin.
A list compiled by Whitney Matheson on mental_floss magazine.
A history podcast hosted by Philip Perrin and Ros Evans. In this show, the UK historians explore different towns, cities, or locations by walking through them and sharing the points of interest, history, and culture of the location. The website also includes maps and photos from the walks.
Fifty episodes examining the history of central Florida through local area objects found in museums, historical organizations, and other places produced by UCF Associate Professor of history and H-Net VP for Research & Publications Robert Cassanello and students in his Historical Documentary and New Media class.
A 100-episode radio program produced by The British Museum and the BBC that uses objects to tell the history of the world.
Culinary historian Linda Pelacchio discusses food history with academic historians, cookbook authors, and chefs. This long-running weekly podcast has over 200 back episodes to enjoy as well as new weekly content. Hosted by Heritage Radio in Brooklyn, NY.
The best interviews are more recent (2014 on) and feature serious food historians who have generally published books on the subject being discussed.
A podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora, hosted by Michigan State University historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb.
Ideas
This eight-part podcast is a lecture series on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in the Western philosophical tradition, presented by University of Oxford philosophy professor James Grant.
An eclectic show that pulls together reporting, inverviews, and personal essays on topics like the sharing economy, internet culture, wine, and appropriately for this space, the history of podcasting, produced by Benjamen Walker on Radiotopia.
Researchers at the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University use nature’s design principles to develop bio-inspired materials and devices that may transform medicine and create a more sustainable world. In this podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks with institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision the future as it faces disruptive technologies.
Produced by podcaster Siobhan Barco for the H-Law network, this series interviews legal historians and touches on all areas of legal history. The first episode interviews Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate.
The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance, and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers, and decision makers.
A chronological series that aims to cover the entire history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the present, and including the Islamic world, India, and China, produced and hosted by Peter Adamson, a professor of philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and King's College London. A series of companion books are published by Oxford University Press.
History’s Ink is a podcast series on history, with Malory Nye. The title comes from Mark Twain’s enigmatic phrase: ‘The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.’
History is the product of our own prejudices, whoever we might be. It is fluid, it is in motion, it becomes something in the process of being written down. We see in history our own prejudices, our ideas, our present. History's Ink is a podcast on history by an anthropologist, through the lens of culture and critical race and religion.
The podcast looks at themes in particular related to Britain, Scotland, and Empire and Colonialism. History's Ink aims to explore and discuss the racialized present by placing it within this history.
Long-running (since 1965) CBC radio program covering social issues, culture & the arts, geopolitics, history, biography, science & technology, and the humanities, mostly through documentary.
A new interview podcast that describes itself as "about the people and projects bridging art, activism, and academia to build better worlds ... creators who use culture for social justice and explore the nitty-gritty work of imagining and creating more just worlds," hosted by editor, indexer, and academic consultant Cathy Hannabach.
A BBC show about the history of ideas presented by writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg featuring guest experts who explain and discuss topics in culture, history, philosophy, religion, and science.
Interviews
Cold Call distills the Harvard Business School’s legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by Brian Kenny, the podcast airs every two weeks and features HBS faculty discussing cases they’ve written and the lessons they impart.
An interview podcast with authors about architecture from the New Books Network.
Culinary historian Linda Pelacchio discusses food history with academic historians, cookbook authors, and chefs. This long-running weekly podcast has over 200 back episodes to enjoy as well as new weekly content. Hosted by Heritage Radio in Brooklyn, NY.
The best interviews are more recent (2014 on) and feature serious food historians who have generally published books on the subject being discussed.
This monthly podcast from Oklahoma State University Library tells stories about people in Oklahoma by sharing voices from the OSU Library's oral history collections, and visiting with experts, students, and the interviewing team to examine various topics related to Oklahoma history and culture. Hosted by Juliana Nykolaiszyn, faculty member with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the OSU Library.
The ArchitectChats is the official podcast of ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects. It features interviews with architects "working at the cutting edge of design, technology, and practice," about news and trends in architecture and design. Episodes come out approximately twice monthly.
The Art Gallery of Ontario podcast shares audio of artist talks, tours, symposia, and other gallery events, as well as thematic series, such as Into the Anthropocene: Our Impact on Earth, and a lecture series on Catherine the Great.
Hosted by Jon Kay, Director of Traditional Arts Indiana and Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, this series covers a wide range of material culture topics, interviews with folklorists, artisans, archivists, genealogists, and more.
An interview podcast produced by the Asia Society that interviews scholars, journalists, and Asia experts who illuminate the politics, economics, arts, and culture in the region.
Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast on KPSU, sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History, and currently run by history students, Lily Hart and Madelyn Miller. Beyond Footnotes features interviews with the talented faculty and students of PSU, as well as local historians. It provides a forum for them to share their work with each other and the community. The show was co-created and formerly hosted by Ryan Wisnor and Joshua Justice of Dive Audio
A podcast series from the Mathers Museum of World Culture hosted by MMWC Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Jon Kay, it features interviews with museum professionals and culture workers.
Irish Studies
A ten-part series of lectures by renowned Irish historian Professor Michael Laffan on the Irish Revolution, which was a module taught by Professor Laffan in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin from the late 1970's until his retirement in 2010. The series was recorded for History Hub.ie by Real Smart Media.
This podcast makes available papers presented at the annual interdisciplinary Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference at the University College Dublin and Maynooth University since 2011. Over 100 speakers from history, English, archaeology, art history, and others, recorded by Real Smart Media for History Hub.ie.
Language
A podcast shared by H-DC that explores the lingusitics of Washington D.C. This episode was reported by Matthew S. Schawrtz and produced by WAMU 88.5.
A long-form journalistic, aesthetically produced Spanish-language podcast that tells Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States, produced by novelist Daniel Alarcón and a team of journalists and producers.
A short, often humorous podcast about language and etymology produced by podcaster Helen Zaltzman.
A podcast about the global history of the spoken English language, from its beginning to the present, produced and hosted by non-professional historian Kevin Straud.
We Teach Languages is a podcast and blog that explores the question, "What does excellent language teaching look like?" through conversations with K-12 and university teachers of languages. Episodes focus on many different languages and speak to vital issues, including recently, engaging students in oral history projects, indigenous language preservation, and thematic units and social justice. The podcast also has many episodes on the nuts and bolts of language teaching and learning, as well as professional development topics. We Teach Languages is a volunteer effort, and is produced by Stacey Margarita Johnson, Assistant Director of Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and Senior Lecturer of Spanish. Its team of contributors includes Maris Hawkins, Upper School Spanish teacher at Bullis School in Maryland; Carolyn Siegel, World Languages Department Chair at Gann Academy in Waltham, MA; and Janina Hanson, Middle School Spanish teacher at Latin School of Chicago.
Latin American Studies
A list of podcast episodes and audio compiled by the H-Haiti network of Haiti-related content.
A long-form journalistic, aesthetically produced Spanish-language podcast that tells Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States, produced by novelist Daniel Alarcón and a team of journalists and producers.
Legal History
Produced by podcaster Siobhan Barco for the H-Law network, this series interviews legal historians and touches on all areas of legal history. The first episode interviews Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate.
More Perfect is Radiolab's first spin-off series. This seven-part series discusses some of the U.S. Supreme Court's most interesting and difficult cases. More Perfect is hosted by Jad Abumrad and produced by WNYC Studios.
A podcast series from NPR about race and how it has impacted the country. Listen to experts and activist converse about events and topics such a race riots and civil rights moments. Race Matters was produced by the Univeristy of Ohklahoma and hosted by Merelyn Bell.
Literary Studies
Literate is a podcast that goes through The New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century” list from 1995. Each episode focuses on one book, exploring its history and author, and asking whether it really is one of the greatest books of the twentieth century.
The hosts, literary scholars Erica Lombard and Alicia Broggi, also invite two expert guests onto each episode—from translators to writers to academics to the founder of a book museum.
Monthly roundtable conversation with current PhD researchers about topics in Modernist studies.
From the podcast website: "The Modernist Podcast is a platform for PhD researchers to share their research with the wider scholarly community. It is informal yet academic, fun, thought provoking and fresh. We want to bring academic discussion beyond the page and out from within the walls of the conference, into the airwaves and across digital media."
The schedule of topics and guests for 2017 is here.
A podcast in Contemporary Quranic Studies dedicated to holistic engagement with the Quran through scholarly and spiritual commentary upon the text. Quran for All Seasons draws upon the depth and breadth of the Islamic tradition to facilitate discussions of the Quran that transcend creedal and ideological divisions.
Hosted by Joseph Lumbard of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the podcast provides an ongoing commentary on the Quran, what some might call a contemplation, or tadabbur, of the Quran. The first two seasons provide reflections upon the most frequently read and recited sūrahs of the Quran, such as the Fātiḥa, and the short ṣūrahs at the end of the Quran.
The Graphic Possibilities Podcast is the official podcast of The Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop at Michigan State University. GP is a research workshop in the Department of English at Michigan State University that engages with comics through two interrelated branches, critical inquiry, and engaged pedagogy.
VICTORIAN SCRIBBLERS is a biography and literature podcast co-hosted by Courtney Floyd, Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Oregon, and Eleanor Dumbill, Ph.D. student at Loughborough University.
Our episodes cover the lives and work of lesser-known nineteenth-century writers, and our special features highlight important cultural contexts that bring the Victorian period to life.
The Writing Westward Podcast features conversations with authors of new books on the North American West. Disciplines vary but lean heavily towards history and literature. A total of 9 episodes are currently available with a new episode released each month.
The podcast is hosted and produced by BYU Redd Center Associate Director, Professor Brenden W. Rensink.
Material Culture
"Sew What?" is a podcast about historic needlework and the gals who stitched it, hosted by historic needlework expert. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. New episodes out every Thursday.
A podcast that explores the built environment and design hosted by producer and Radiotopia founder Roman Mars.
A history podcast hosted by Philip Perrin and Ros Evans. In this show, the UK historians explore different towns, cities, or locations by walking through them and sharing the points of interest, history, and culture of the location. The website also includes maps and photos from the walks.
Fifty episodes examining the history of central Florida through local area objects found in museums, historical organizations, and other places produced by UCF Associate Professor of history and H-Net VP for Research & Publications Robert Cassanello and students in his Historical Documentary and New Media class.
A 100-episode radio program produced by The British Museum and the BBC that uses objects to tell the history of the world.
The AIA Podnet discusses architecture, urban planning, and design with practitioners. The podcast is no longer active, but an archive of episodes can be found on Soundcloud.
Hosted by Jon Kay, Director of Traditional Arts Indiana and Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, this series covers a wide range of material culture topics, interviews with folklorists, artisans, archivists, genealogists, and more.
A podcast series from the Mathers Museum of World Culture hosted by MMWC Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Jon Kay, it features interviews with museum professionals and culture workers.
Ten short episode series produced for BBC 4 radio that traces the story of ten antiquities and cultural sites, like the Winged-Bull of Nineveh or the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, presented by author and journalist Kanishk Tharoor.
Seminar convened by Alexi Baker of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge bringing together scholars, curators and artists to discuss material objects in cultural, temporal, and geographical transition.
Media
Cold Call distills the Harvard Business School’s legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by Brian Kenny, the podcast airs every two weeks and features HBS faculty discussing cases they’ve written and the lessons they impart.
A monthly podcast that presents an academic perspective on media, sponsored by Cinema Journal, the official journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and produced by Christine Becker, Michael Kackman, Joel Neville Anderson, Stephanie Brown, and Todd Thompson.
A discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums, produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and hosted by Dan Cohen, Amanda French, Mills Kelly, Stephen Robertson, and Tom Scheinfeldt.
A podcast covering each episode of The Golden Girls television show from a scholarly perspective, incorporating feminist and gender studies, archetypal patterns, eldercare and healthcare concerns, and more.
Enough Wicker features academic papers, journal publications, and social science guest posts and TED talks on scholarly themes in The Golden Girls, as well as interviews with guest scholars such as Elliott Powell of University of Minnesota, Deborah Macey of University of Portland, and more.
Press Publish is a weekly conversation with journalists, technologists, and entrepreneurs about the future of news. Produced by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard and hosted by Neiman Lab director Joshua Benton.
Sydney Screen Studies Network Talks is a research-led podcast covering all aspects of film, television, and screen-based media. Scholars and graduate students from Sydney share their research, discuss screen culture and history, and debate the latest film and television releases and technology. Each episode is recorded live in front of an audience and features a film or media scholar presenting their cutting-edge research in the form of a short talk. The talk is followed by a Q&A session with another scholar in the field, who opens up the discussion to the audience present on the day. This podcast is made possible by the kind support of the School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney.
Museum Studies
A history podcast hosted by Philip Perrin and Ros Evans. In this show, the UK historians explore different towns, cities, or locations by walking through them and sharing the points of interest, history, and culture of the location. The website also includes maps and photos from the walks.
Ten short episode series produced for BBC 4 radio that traces the story of ten antiquities and cultural sites, like the Winged-Bull of Nineveh or the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, presented by author and journalist Kanishk Tharoor.
Sidedoor is a podcast from the Smithsonian, produced and hosted by Tony Cohn & Megan Detrie. It tells stories about science, art, history, humanity and where they unexpectedly overlap. The first three episodes explore technology's grip on us, the different meanings of "delivery," and the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The Lonely Palette is a bi-weekly podcast that aims to return art history to the masses, one painting at a time. Based out of - but not affiliated with - the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tamar picks a painting du jour, interviews unsuspecting passers-by, and then dives deep into the object, the movement, the social context, and anything and everything else that will make it as exciting to you as it is to her. The Lonley Palette is hosted by Tamar Avishai, an art historian turned finance administrator who moonlights as an independent radio producer and adjunct lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Music
A podcast about the cultural influence of Jamaica around the globe post independence with the help of linguists, artists, musicians, and historians.
This bi-weekly podcast, hosted by historian and former CBC radio producer Matthew Friedman, explores the history of the avant-garde art music of the 20th and 21st centuries, giving listeners a chance to listen to in-depth commentary as well as long passages of music. The companion website http://nosoundsforbidden.org contains additional essays, playlists, and information.
Oral History
This monthly podcast from Oklahoma State University Library tells stories about people in Oklahoma by sharing voices from the OSU Library's oral history collections, and visiting with experts, students, and the interviewing team to examine various topics related to Oklahoma history and culture. Hosted by Juliana Nykolaiszyn, faculty member with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the OSU Library.
A production of the Bancroft Library's Oral History Center at the University of California, Berkeley, this six-episode series seeks to showcase important interviews in the library collection with women who, against tremendous odds, broke through glass ceilings and forged their own paths in the political arena. The episodes chart the political advancement of women in the United States through the lives and achievements of ten noteworthy pioneers from universal suffrage and elected office to community organizing and brokering party politics. Narrated by Belva Davis, researched and written by Todd Holmes, and produced and edited by Shanna Farrel and Cristina Kim.
History Talks brings smart conversations about today’s most interesting topics. Podcast topics include Korean History, American politics, and Sub-Sahara Africa. Each episode of History Talks features different experts in the subject and is produced by the History Department at The Ohio State University.
Preserves: A Manitoba Food History Podcast explores the rich history of Manitoba food and the people who make it, sell it, and eat it. Preserves considers the cultural, social, and commercial aspects of Manitoba food and what it means to us. The podcast is produced by the Manitoba Food History Project research team and hosted by Kent Davies (Oral History Centre) and food and business historian, Janis Thiessen (University of Winnipeg).
Preserves is a part of the The Manitoba Food History Project, an oral history project based out of the University of Winnipeg, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, together with support from Diversity Foods, the University of Winnipeg Research Office, and the UW Oral History Centre. The goal of our project team is to produce a comprehensive history of food manufacturing, production, retailing, and consumption in the province of Manitoba from 1870 to the present day through digital scholarship and public history.
Coming out of the Southern Oral History program at the UNC-Chapel Hill and produced by U.S. historian and SOH Associate Director Rachel F. Seidman and SOHP Field Scholar and Ph.D. candidate Evan Faulkenbury, this podcast tries to engage new audiences and to talk informally about the power and potential of oral history.
From the Southern Oral History Program, this podcast showcases the richness of our archive of nearly 6,000 interviews with people from across the South. We discuss the interpretive, ethical, pedagogical, and technological complexities of learning history by interviewing people who lived it. Recent episodes have covered LGBTQ life in the South; feminism; segregation in the rural south; how to handle and interpret silences; emotion; and what to do when pets interrupt your interview! Subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss next month's episode.
Sexing History is a new podcast that examines how the history of sexuality shapes present day cultures and politics.
This podcastis hosted by historians Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman. Sexing History uses oral histories, archival sound clips, commentary and analysis, and interviews with other scholars in the field to tell compelling stories about the past to illuminate the sexual politics of our present.
Our first episode looks at the story of Aaron Fricke. In 1980, Aaron sued his Rhode Island school district after they prohibited him from bringing his same-sex partner to prom. We are delighted that Aaron shared his story with us and you can access the episode on our website.
The second episode tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, an African American abortion provider, who was charged with manslaughter for performing a legal abortion shortly after Roe v Wade.
Our most recent episode explores the history of the postwar obsession with large breasts in the United States and the products sold to women to enhance their bodies.
You can subscribe to our podcasts through iTunes, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sexing-history/id1264132399, Feedburner, http://feeds.feedburner.com/SexingHistory, and Stitcher, https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sexing-history?refid=stpr, and please head over to our website, www.sexinghistory.com, for more information or to get a sneak peak of future episodes.
Sexing History
Gillian Frank--host and co-creator
Lauren Gutterman--host and co-creator
Rebecca L Davis--producer and story editor
Saniya Lee Ghanoui--producer
Devin McGeehan Muchmore--producer
Talking Hoosier History, hosted by historians Lindsey Beckley, Jill Weiss and Justin Clark, is a monthly podcast that features a significant person or event in Indiana History. Each episode is based on research conducted by Indiana Historical Bureau staff and features newspaper articles from Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana’s digital historic newspaper database. The project is operated by the Indiana State Library with financial support from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services along with the National Endowment for Humanities’ National Digital Newspaper Program.
A unique short-form (usually under 10 minutes) podcast from the BBC that interviews people from around the world who were witnesses to historical events.
Personal Productivity
A weekly podcast that features discussions about the teaching in higher education and personal productivity, produced by Bonni Stachowiak, Associate Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University of Southern California.
Philosophy
A long-running philosophy podcast that takes the form of an informal roundtable discussion among former philosophy grad students, hosted by Mark Linsenmayer, Seth Paskin, Wes Alwan, Dylan Casey, and Alan Cook. Each episode focuses on a short reading and at least one "big" philosophical question, concern, or idea. Some of the older episodes are by subscription and the group runs a companion blog with additional information related to the episodes.
A series of lectures by Oxford University Lecturer in Philosophy James Grant about contemporary moral philosophy as it relates to the problem of global poverty.
A chronological series that aims to cover the entire history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the present, and including the Islamic world, India, and China, produced and hosted by Peter Adamson, a professor of philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and King's College London. A series of companion books are published by Oxford University Press.
Smart, accessible conversations on big ideas and great books -- ranging from free speech and affirmative action to transformative books, by authors such as Phillis Wheatly, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Karl Marx, Franz Kafka, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Waldo Ellison, and many more. Each episode is a deep conversation with a writer, philosopher, artist, or academic.
This short-lived podcast featured interviews with leading scientists from fields like astrobiology, evolutionary biochemistry, structural biology, and many others, about recent discoveries and research in science and the philosophical implications of these. The series was produced by Dr. Emma Tobin out of the University College London Department of Science and Technology Studies. This podcast is not currently in production.
Politics
A podcast about ten landmark American Presidents hosted by producer Roifield Brown and featuring expert narrators on each president's public career.
An interview podcast produced by the Asia Society that interviews scholars, journalists, and Asia experts who illuminate the politics, economics, arts, and culture in the region.
A public radio show and podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh that give historical perspective to topics in the headlines.
A compliation of podcasts from hosted by various CNN reporters and analyst. These podcasts focus on the impact of Brexit and how the UK's decision will impact the world.
A production of the Bancroft Library's Oral History Center at the University of California, Berkeley, this six-episode series seeks to showcase important interviews in the library collection with women who, against tremendous odds, broke through glass ceilings and forged their own paths in the political arena. The episodes chart the political advancement of women in the United States through the lives and achievements of ten noteworthy pioneers from universal suffrage and elected office to community organizing and brokering party politics. Narrated by Belva Davis, researched and written by Todd Holmes, and produced and edited by Shanna Farrel and Cristina Kim.
The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance, and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers, and decision makers.
History Talks brings smart conversations about today’s most interesting topics. Podcast topics include Korean History, American politics, and Sub-Sahara Africa. Each episode of History Talks features different experts in the subject and is produced by the History Department at The Ohio State University.
A weekly podcast that aspires to bring historical insights to political and cultural debates, hosted by historians and writers Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young.
A podcast series from NPR about race and how it has impacted the country. Listen to experts and activist converse about events and topics such a race riots and civil rights moments. Race Matters was produced by the Univeristy of Ohklahoma and hosted by Merelyn Bell.
A weekly podcast series examining great political revolutions hosted by full-time podcast producer Mike Duncan.
Race
A list of podcast episodes and audio compiled by the H-Haiti network of Haiti-related content.
History’s Ink is a podcast series on history, with Malory Nye. The title comes from Mark Twain’s enigmatic phrase: ‘The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.’
History is the product of our own prejudices, whoever we might be. It is fluid, it is in motion, it becomes something in the process of being written down. We see in history our own prejudices, our ideas, our present. History's Ink is a podcast on history by an anthropologist, through the lens of culture and critical race and religion.
The podcast looks at themes in particular related to Britain, Scotland, and Empire and Colonialism. History's Ink aims to explore and discuss the racialized present by placing it within this history.
Hosted by The New Republic senior editor Jamil Smith, a bi-weekly podcast about issues of race, gender, and identity.
In each episode, fairy tale and media studies scholar Dr. Shannan Palma, founding faculty director of the graduate program in writing and digital communication at Agnes Scott College, and award-winning survivor advocate Wanda Swan, director of the Office of Respect at Emory University, sit down with a special guest for a creative, laughter-filled conversation that both celebrates and critiques Disney’s influences on generations of Americans. Tracing the fairy tales’ origins in folklore and significant adaptations in cinema, season one’s six episodes focus on Disney’s fairy tale adaptations, both animated and live-action, and center the voices and perspectives of people of color and LGBT and queer individuals. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud.
A podcast series from NPR about race and how it has impacted the country. Listen to experts and activist converse about events and topics such a race riots and civil rights moments. Race Matters was produced by the Univeristy of Ohklahoma and hosted by Merelyn Bell.
A bi-weekly blog on the intersection between food, race, gender, and class.
The full title of this Panoply Media podcast is Our National Conversation About Conversations About Race, it's hosted by authors Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby, and the title is fairly self-explanatory.
Recent Publications
An interview podcast with authors about architecture from the New Books Network.
An interview podcast with authors of new books in the histroy of religions, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha), Arthur Remillard (St. Francis University), and David Krueger (Independent Scholar).
A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer or editor on craft and career, hosted by writer/editors Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff, and produced by Longform and the Atavist Magazine.
An interview podcast about books in American Studies.
An interview podcast about East Asian history with authors hosted by, among others, historian and H-Podcast advisory board member Carla Nappi.
An interview podcast with authors of new books in Islamic Studies, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha), Elliott Bazzano (Le Moyne College), and SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College).
An interview podcast with authors of new books in the study of religion, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha) and Hillary Kaell (Concordia University).
Discussions with scientists, technologists, and social scientists about their new books hosted by, among others, historian and H-Podcast advisory board member Carla Nappi.
An interview podcast with authors of new books in South Asian studies, hosted by sociologist and H-Podcast subscriber Ian Cook.
An interview podcast about sports history hosted by historian and H-Podcast advisory board member Bruce Berglund.
Science & Technology
A new world history podcast produced by graduate students at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. The first episode features PhD Candidate Malcolm Purinton on why the pilsner came to dominate the beer world, through the British Empire, globalization, trade, technologies, science, and consumption.
"A podcast on everythwere the life sciences meet the biological sciences with Dr. Dan Quintana and Dr. James Heathers." A bi-weekly conversation-style podcast about the nuts & bolts of scientific research and academic life issues, like writing and publishing, the PhD to Postdoc transition, and work-life balance.
Harvard Medical School scientists tackle a variety of important questions, ranging from how your neurons work to which genes play a role in particular diseases. This podcast provides context and highlights the latest trends in medical education and biomedical research through interviews and analysis.
Nature’s Past is a quarterly audio podcast about the environmental history research community in Canada. The podcast examines the field of environmental history through interviews, round-table discussions, and lectures. Founded in 2008, Nature’s Past has explored a variety of topics and issues in environment history, including: forestry education, fisheries, urban environments, non-human animals, industrialization, environmental justice, digital humanities, natural resource conflicts, traditional ecological knowledge, rivers, and e-waste.
Discussions with scientists, technologists, and social scientists about their new books hosted by, among others, historian and H-Podcast advisory board member Carla Nappi.
A podcast about extraordinary technology by historian of technology, public historian, and tinkerer Dave Unger.
Sidedoor is a podcast from the Smithsonian, produced and hosted by Tony Cohn & Megan Detrie. It tells stories about science, art, history, humanity and where they unexpectedly overlap. The first three episodes explore technology's grip on us, the different meanings of "delivery," and the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
A sound studies podcast that challenges its contributors to re-think the world through the sonic epistemologies of Toronto School McLuhanism and Schaferism and to demonstrate the power of sound to shape and tell stories in a fundamentally new and challenging way.
A series of podcast compiled by Julie DeNeen, an innovator in implenting classroom technologies with a bachelor's degree in Clincial Psychology from the University of New Haven. These 50 podcasts include topics such as classroom tech tools and tips, creating webinars in the classroom, and insight to the future of technology and education.
The Received Wisdom is a discussion and interview podcast about how to realize the potential of science and technology by challenging the received wisdom. Join Professors Shobita Parthasarathy and Jack Stilgoe as they talk to thinkers and doers from around the world about governing science and technology to make the world a better place.
The show also includes study questions and additional resources for each episode to make it easy to integrate into curriculums for professors looking to diversify the voices and types of media in their classrooms.
Secularism & Religion
An interview podcast with scholars about new terrains, projects, methods, journals, book series, conferences, and directions in the study of religion, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha).
An interview podcast with authors of new books in the histroy of religions, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha), Arthur Remillard (St. Francis University), and David Krueger (Independent Scholar).
Interviews with engaging scholars to increase religious literacy and understanding. Produced by Brigham Young University's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.
Ten short episode series produced for BBC 4 radio that traces the story of ten antiquities and cultural sites, like the Winged-Bull of Nineveh or the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, presented by author and journalist Kanishk Tharoor.
An interview podcast with authors of new books in Islamic Studies, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha), Elliott Bazzano (Le Moyne College), and SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College).
An interview podcast with authors of new books in the study of religion, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha) and Hillary Kaell (Concordia University).
Part of the New Books Network, this podcast, hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans, features interviews with authors of new books in secularism.
A podcast in Contemporary Quranic Studies dedicated to holistic engagement with the Quran through scholarly and spiritual commentary upon the text. Quran for All Seasons draws upon the depth and breadth of the Islamic tradition to facilitate discussions of the Quran that transcend creedal and ideological divisions.
Hosted by Joseph Lumbard of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the podcast provides an ongoing commentary on the Quran, what some might call a contemplation, or tadabbur, of the Quran. The first two seasons provide reflections upon the most frequently read and recited sūrahs of the Quran, such as the Fātiḥa, and the short ṣūrahs at the end of the Quran.
Religion Bites is a podcast series by Malory Nye, made up of short talks intended as an introduction to the contemporary critical study of religion and culture. Topics have so far included gender, race, intersectionality, agency, the problem of belief, innovative approaches to the study of religion and culture, and decolonization.
An interview podcast with scholars who won book or fellowship awards from the American Academy of Religion, hosted by H-Podcast subscriber Kristian Petersen (University of Nebraska Omaha).
Social Sciences
The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance, and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers, and decision makers.
Somatic episodes explore the everyday, ordinary experiences, spaces, cultures, practices, and communities concerning our bodies in motion. Through this podcast, we hope to provide a digital vehicle through which contributors can broadcast creative stories about how people reflect on their bodies and issues of embodiment in their everyday lives, as well as the meaning of those experiences. It is our hope that each episode allows listeners to critically reflect on how we all experience the world through our (active) bodies. As a result, each episode is interdisciplinary in nature, discussing topics related to history, sociology, cultural studies, body studies, and physical cultural studies.
The Familiar Strange is a podcast about doing anthropology: that is, about listening, looking, trying out, and being with, in pursuit of uncommon knowledge about humans and culture. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and all the other familiar places. Find show notes, plus our blog about anthropology's role in the world, at www.thefamiliarstrange.com.
Recent episodes: "#19 Anthro & policy-making, digital disruption, online research, & what is love? This month on TFS", "#18 What taste is made of: Brad Weiss talks pig farming and the meaning of food in America"
Twitter: @tfsTweets. FB: facebook.com/thefamiliarstrange. Instagram: @thefamiliarstrange.
Brought to you by your familiar strangers: Ian Pollock, Jodie-Lee Trembath, Julia Brown, and Simon Theobald, four PhD candidates in anthropology at Australian National University, with support from the Australian Anthropological Society, the Australian National University’s Schools of Culture, History and Language and Archeology and Anthropology, and the Australian Centre for Public Awareness of Science, and produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association.
We acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we record this podcast, and pay our respects to the elders of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, past, present, and emerging.
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to launch the first series of its podcast To the Righthouse: “Engaging with human rights scepticism”.
The series focuses on different expressions of human rights scepticism: from ontological questions about the very notion of rights to culture- and religion-based perceptions of rights as an illegitimate source of external interference; from concerns about pragmatic application to doubts about the political neutrality of human rights.
The host George Ulrich, Global Campus Academic Director, engages in conversation with renowned experts like Samuel Moyn and Manfred Nowak; Koen De Feyter and Paul Gready; Nandini Ramanujam and Jerald Joseph; Lotte Leicht and Guy Haarscher; Costas Douzinas.
Tune in and join the debate!
Sports
From CBC Radio, 5 podcasts that cover landmark stories from Olympic Games throughout the years.
A new podcast produced by the collaborative project "Global History of Sports in the Cold War," part of the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project. Led by Robert Edelman (UC San Diego) and Robert Edelman (University of Cambridge), the research project has had conferences in Moscow and New York, and some of the participating scholars have contributed so far to the podcast. The host and producer of the podcast is Vince Hunt, who has been a producer and reporter for the BBC.
An interview podcast about sports history hosted by historian and H-Podcast advisory board member Bruce Berglund.
Somatic episodes explore the everyday, ordinary experiences, spaces, cultures, practices, and communities concerning our bodies in motion. Through this podcast, we hope to provide a digital vehicle through which contributors can broadcast creative stories about how people reflect on their bodies and issues of embodiment in their everyday lives, as well as the meaning of those experiences. It is our hope that each episode allows listeners to critically reflect on how we all experience the world through our (active) bodies. As a result, each episode is interdisciplinary in nature, discussing topics related to history, sociology, cultural studies, body studies, and physical cultural studies.
The Soccer History USA podcast is a monthly program examining the history of soccer in the United States. Although previous shows have focused on various topics the podcast is now in the process of recounting each season of the American Soccer League from 1921-31. The show is written and hosted by Brian D. Bunk from the History Department at the University of Masschusetts Amherst.
Teaching
A podcast for educators, students, and history buffs about Texas, US, and World History featuring historians from the University of Texas at Austin.
A discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums, produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and hosted by Dan Cohen, Amanda French, Mills Kelly, Stephen Robertson, and Tom Scheinfeldt.
The Harvard EdCast is a weekly series of podcasts from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that features 15-20 minute conversations with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world. Hosted by Matt Weber, the Harvard EdCast is a space for educational discourse and openness, focusing on the myriad issues and current events related to the field.
This podcast features one professor--Dr. Macia Chatelain, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University--and one student having conversations about "things we don't talk about in class." Produced by Dr. Macia Chatelain and Alex Tyson.
Long-form podcast for World History teachers and scholars hosted by Matt Drwenski and Dave Eaton.
Landing page for dozens of podcast series produced by faculty, departments, and colleges in Oxford University on a wide variety of subjects, both informative and useful for teaching. The Living in the Stone Age series of short films, for example, demonstrate Stone Age technologies for classroom demonstration.
A podcast devoted to a broad approach to studying history, from research to teaching to methodology to theory, hosted by historian at Indiana Univeristy-Purdue University Indianapolis, Jason M. Kelly.
A weekly podcast that features discussions about the teaching in higher education and personal productivity, produced by Bonni Stachowiak, Associate Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University of Southern California.
A series of podcast compiled by Julie DeNeen, an innovator in implenting classroom technologies with a bachelor's degree in Clincial Psychology from the University of New Haven. These 50 podcasts include topics such as classroom tech tools and tips, creating webinars in the classroom, and insight to the future of technology and education.
The Arch.Ed Podcast discusses architecture and architectural education with students and educators. It is hosted by Dr. James Benedict Brown (@jbenedictbrown / combinearchitecture.com), a Lecturer in Architecture at the Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.
Urban Studies
The AIA Podnet discusses architecture, urban planning, and design with practitioners. The podcast is no longer active, but an archive of episodes can be found on Soundcloud.
The Architectural Association of Ireland has a podcast that discusses architecture in Ireland and further afield. Each episode features a conversation with a national or international figure from the field of architecture, art or design about their work, their thinking, and their process.
This weekly podcast, hosted by Russell Manthy, managing director of IA Interior Architects' Houston office, offers an insider's look inside a working architecture firm. Issues discussed include design, strategy, culture, and sustainability. The show features discussions and interviews with architects, designers, and strategists. Particularly interesting are the two parter on the History of the Astrodome of Houston (1, 2) and the episodes on An International Design Education and Repositioning an Historic Building.
The Royal Academy of Arts has a podcast collection that talks about architecture, recommendations, and interviews with individuals in the field.
The Arch.Ed Podcast discusses architecture and architectural education with students and educators. It is hosted by Dr. James Benedict Brown (@jbenedictbrown / combinearchitecture.com), a Lecturer in Architecture at the Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.
The Plan is a weekly architecture and design talk show on Radio Adelaide 101.5fm. The show discusses all things architecture, environment and affect and gets a conversation going on integrated design issues and practices in and around Adelaide. Weekly features will profile local designers, practices and thinkers from all corners of the built environment.
Hosted by John Byleveld, Martin Ridge, Sharon MacKay and Dr Jo Russell-Clarke and proudly supported by the Australian Institute of Architecture – SA Chapter (AIA/SA), Design Institute of Australia (DIA/SA), Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture – SA Chapter (AILA/SA), University of South Australia – School of Art, Architecture & Design, Adelaide University – School of Architecture and Built Environment, Planning Institute Australia SA Chapter (PIA/SA) and the Office of Design and Architecture South Australia (ODASA)
Writing
A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer or editor on craft and career, hosted by writer/editors Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff, and produced by Longform and the Atavist Magazine.
A forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process hosted by writer, reviewer, and H-Podcast advisory board member John King.
A periodic podcast about trends and events in the world of scholarly publishing, produced by authors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing's Scholarly Kitchen Blog and featuring interviews with individuals of note in scholarly communications.