#1314 Roderick Beaton - Europe: A New History
Dr. Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature at King’s College London. He is the author of Europe: A New History. More»
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#1293 Amy McPhie Allebest: Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest is the host of the Breaking Down Patriarchy podcast and YouTube channel (@breakingdownpatriarchy). She has a BA in English from Brigham Young University, where she studied abroad in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, and spent a year and a half in Chile. She also has a master's degree in liberal arts from Stanford University, where she gained the training to analyze and write about literature, philosophy, and history. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Utah, studying Education, Culture, and Society. More»
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#1292 Nima Bassiri: Capitalism, Psychiatry, and the Emergence of Pathological Value
Dr. Nima Bassiri is a social theorist, historian & philosopher of the human sciences, and associate professor at Duke University, where he teaches in the Program in Literature, Duke’s interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies program. He is also the co-director of Duke’s Institute for Critical Theory, where he convenes the Critical Theory Workshop. He is the author of Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value. More»
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#1288 Omer Bartov - Israel: What Went Wrong?
Dr. Omer Bartov is Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Dr. Bartov's early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, and Hitler's Army. He then turned to the links between total war and genocide, discussed in his books Murder in Our Midst, Mirrors of Destruction, and Germany's War and the Holocaust. His latest book is Israel: What Went Wrong? More»
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#1285 Luke Kemp - Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Dr. Luke Kemp is Research Affiliate and former Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He looks at the past (civilization collapses) and future (climate change and emerging technologies) to guide policy in the present. He is an honorary lecturer in environmental policy at the Australian National University (ANU), holds a PhD in international relations from the ANU and was previously a senior economist at Vivid Economics. He is the author of Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. More»
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#1237 Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Dr. Timothy Winegard is Associate Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University. Dr. Winegard teaches classes in the fields of Military History, Indigenous Studies, Global Civilizations, and North American History. Dr. Winegard is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. More»
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#1190 Eric Storm - Nationalism: A World History
Dr. Eric Storm is Associate Professor of History at Leiden University. He is a specialist in Spanish history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also conducted extensive research into the construction of regional identities in France, Spain and Germany between 1890 and 1940. At present, he mainly publishes about nationalization processes in a comparative perspective. He is the author of Nationalism: A World History. More»
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#1187 Peter Turchin: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Elite Overproduction, and Social Unrest
Dr. Peter Turchin is Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut in the departments of ecology and evolutionary biology, anthropology, and mathematics. He is a project leader at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and a research associate at the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is a complexity scientist who works in the field of historical social science that he and his colleagues call cliodynamics. He is the author of books like War and Peace and War, Ages of Discord, Ultrasociety, End Times, and The Great Holocene Transformation. More»
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#1170 Walter Scheidel: What Is Ancient History?
Dr. Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University. Dr. Scheidel's research ranges from ancient social and economic history and premodern historical demography to the comparative and transdisciplinary world history of inequality, state formation, and human welfare. He is particularly interested in connecting the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences. He is the author of several books, the most recent one being What Is Ancient History? More»
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#1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
Dr. Edward Watts is presently the Vassiliadis Professor of Byzantine Greek History at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests center on the intellectual and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. He is the author of several books on ancient history, including Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny, and The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea. His latest book is The Romans: A 2,000-Year History. More»