Evoking History

This week I am joined by Sarah Dunn who holds two Masters degrees in History and is an expert on European witch trials. We discuss the differences in witchcraft and sorcery and werewolf and vampire trials. An entertaining and holiday-appropriate talk. 

This week I am joined by Alana M. Anton Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Georgia State University. We discuss politics and youth LGBTQ activism. We also spend some time talking about the Supreme Court in the wake of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing. You can follow Alana on Twitter @thelittlepecan and follow her work at https://alanamanton.com/ 

Thomas Bouril approached me with the idea to get the African Historians I had previously had on the podcast to do a roundtable. I liked the idea. So, Chase Barney, Alex Marino, Thomas, and Dr. David Pizzo join me to engage in a roundtable on various topics. From the impact of COVID on our research and institutions to Chinese investment in the African continent.

This week I am joined by the Chair of History and Associate Professor of Middle East, Islam, & World History at Idaho State University, Dr. Zackery Heern.  We discuss the evolution of Shi'ism and the Mahdism of The Báb. Dr. Heern also talks about his research into manners and the Islamic educational tradition, which then transitions into a discussion of his work as a department chair during the pandemic.

This week I am joined by Angela Mayfield a former nonprofit administrator and communications specialist, running to represent House District 67 in the Georgia General Assembly. We have a rollicking conversation about Southern identity our families (Are we secretly cousins?). Tales of mountain feuds and job site cooking abound. Of course, we also discuss politics and the state of the Union. Come listen to a couple of Southerners chew the fat.  You can find Angela on Twitter @pinkrocktopus You can donate to her campaign here https://secure.actblue.com/donate/angela-mayfield-for-ga 

This week I am joined by Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn, Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. We discuss his career path that bridges the gaps between the public and academic history spheres. Dr. Beorn provides an excellent debunking of the "clean Wehrmacht" myth and goes into detail about his current project, a combination monograph digital history project on the Janowska Concentration Camp, an urban camp located in the city of Lviv. We also discuss how to frame historical questions/projects and the ethical issues that arise when doing digital history projects on topics like the Holocaust. You can find Dr. Beorn on Twitter @waitmanb Visit his website: https://waitmanbeorn.wixsite.com/waitmanwadebeorn 

This week I am releasing a talk with a genocide scholar, an adjunct history professor at Kean University, and friend Michael Carter that I had taped back in July near the anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre. Ostensibly, we got together to talk about the controversy surrounding the removal of monuments but we ventured into other topics in a free-flowing discussion. This was meant to be released back in August, hence the *lost* descriptor. Good conversation about the terrible subject matter. You kind find Michael on Twitter @DeckofCarter and his latest writing for Tropics of Meta is located here: https://tropicsofmeta.com/2020/07/06/george-floyd-a-transitional-justice-martyr/ 

This week I am joined by Ph.D. Candidate Sam Harshner to discuss his work in the public sector and his forthcoming dissertation focusing on the American Revolution in urban areas. We also discuss his role as the Program Director for the Public Service (PUBS) Master's Degree program here at Marquette and the efforts to unionize academic workers.  You can find more about PUBS here: https://bulletin.marquette.edu/grad/programs/pubs/ 

This week I am joined by three of my Marquette colleagues to discuss Marquette University's Klingler College of Arts and Sciences award of $1.3 Million as part of Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Andrew W. Mellow Foundation grant renewal. Through the renewal, Marquette is now one of 16 HWW consortium members. Marquette is the first university invited to join the consortium since its inception in 2014. Joining me in discussing this award and the work being done, as a result, are. Maggie Nettesheim Hoffman, Ph.D. Candidate in History and Associate Director of Career Diversity at Humanities Without Walls Consortium. Dr. Timothy McMahon, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies. Dr. Douglas Woods, Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education and Dean of the Graduate School. For more on Humanities Without Walls Consortium at Marquette, please visit. https://www.marquette.edu/humanities-without-walls/

This week I am pleased to be joined by the co-editors of a new anthropology journal, Feminist Anthropology, which seeks to bring heterogeneous conceptions of feminism into critical scholarly conversation across a variety of disciplines and genealogies. They discuss the creation of the journal as well as the behind the scenes efforts that make a journal possible. They also give us a sneak preview of issue two coming out soon. Dr. Dána-Ain Davis is a Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at the City University of New York (Queens College and the Graduate Center). Her work on reproductive justice is at the forefront of feminist interrogations about the biopolitics of race and class.  Her work on reproductive justice is at the forefront of feminist interrogations about the biopolitics of race and class. She is the author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (New York University Press, 2019), and her impressive publication record is a model of the intersection of feminist ethnography and activism. Dr. Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (New York University Press, 2014) and the recipient of the 2017 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology honoring her dedication to public anthropology.

This week I am joined by fellow podcaster Seth Reeves to discuss his excellent podcast on the Spanish Civil War, "The Iberian Knot." We discuss what drew him to this project, his background, and of course, The Spanish Civil War itself. A great conversation about history and the art of podcasting. For more information about Seth's work you can look on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Iberian-Knot-A-History-of-The-Spanish-Civil-War-112982850064697 and his website https://spanishcivilwarpodcast.com/.

This week, I am joined by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history Ph.D. candidate Will Tchakirides to discuss his forthcoming dissertation, “Policing Exceptionalism: Race, Law Enforcement, and the Black-led Struggle for Accountability in Milwaukee.” Will details how a series of Progressive-era laws that empowered police independence from civilian oversight created a narrative of 'policing exceptionalism' that reinforced anti-Black policing and helped create a carceral crisis in the state of Wisconsin.  He also talks about his training and experience as a public historian, including his work on the 50th-anniversary commemoration of the March on Milwaukee. We even briefly tease my dissertation towards the end. A fascinating conversation with one of the emerging scholars of carceral history. You can find out more about the March on Milwaukee here: https://uwm.edu/marchonmilwaukee/ and http://200nightsoffreedom.org/ You can keep up with Will at his website. https://willtchakirides.com/ or by following him on Twitter @willtchak

This week I am joined by Dr. Stanislav Vysotsky Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater to discuss his forthcoming book "American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism." Dr. Vysotsky and I discuss his experiences with rightwing infiltrators to the Punk music scene and the history and tactics of the various anti-fascist movements that are collectively known as Antifa. We also talk about the rise of white supremacist/nationalist movements in the last few years—a timely discourse on the extremism of the moment. You can preorder Dr. Vysotsky's book here: https://www.routledge.com/American-Antifa-The-Tactics-Culture-and-Practice-of-Militant-Antifascism/Vysotsky/p/book/9780367210601

This week I am joined by the University of Minnesota Ph.D. Candidate Jason Herbert. We spend the first few minutes discussing our mutual home state Kentucky then settle into discussing Jason's forthcoming dissertation on the introduction of cattle into colonial-era Florida. As you can tell by the title of this episode, Jason's work sits at the nexus of several historiographies. We also discuss his experience teaching secondary school and his new job as an ethnographer for The Seminole Tribe of Florida. Finally, we discuss the origins of the international Twitter phenomenon that is #HATM. The Historians at the Movies community Jason developed roughly two years ago. A jam-packed episode, hope you enjoy it.  You can find Jason on Twitter @HerbertHistory For more on Historians at the Movies check out the #HATM on Twitter or go to the website https://www.historiansatthemovies.com/

This week I am joined by Mississippi State University Ph.D. candidate Michael Adams. Michael is an intellectual historian who studies the intellectual roots of Nazi Germany’s attempted colonization of Eastern Europe and the concentration camp system. We talk about how German Romantic Nationalism evolved into the ruinous ideology of National Socialism. We also discuss the links between colonialism and the German conquest of Eastern Europe. A fascinating discussion.