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University of California, Irvine (as stated in interview)

Episode: Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Chris Griswold

Policy Director of American Compass; author/contributor on The New Conservatives

American Compass

Episode: The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold

Jim Downs

Author of Maladies of Empire

Gettysburg College (Gilder Lehrman NEH Professor)

Episode: Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Eileen G'Sell

Author of Lipstick, professor/reviewer of film and art

Bloomsbury Lipstick (Lipstick, Book)

Episode: Eileen G'Sell, "Lipstick" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Miranda Banks

Professor of Film, Television, and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

Episode: Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, "Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers" (U California Press, 2026)

Kate Fortmueller

Associate Professor of Film and Media History

Georgia State University

Episode: Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, "Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers" (U California Press, 2026)

Emely Rumble

Author of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

Row House Publishing

Episode: Emely Rumble, "Bibliotherapy in The Bronx" (Row House, 2025)

Lewis Sage-Passant

Author of Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector

Edinburgh University Press

Episode: Lewis Sage-Passant, "Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Alisa Kessel

Author of Rape Fantasies, Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence

Oxford University Press (publisher)

Episode: Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold

Q: To flesh out that outline a bit, did you have politics on your mind when you were working with the nonprofit in Johannesburg and also when you were studying at Princeton Theological Seminary and at Wheaton College, or did you have a more religious calling in mind?

The conversation expanded from personal career moves to a broader critique of economic orthodoxies, highlighting how global experiences and moral philosophy inform a more worker-centered approach to policy that still respects market dynamics.

The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold

Q: Did you have politics on your mind when you were working with the nonprofit in Johannesburg and also when you were studying at Princeton Theological Seminary and Wheaton College, or did you have a more religious calling in mind?

I was always a political junkie, but my training in English literature, philosophy, and divinity shaped how I analyze political economy through first principles, not through a predetermined political path; the experience abroad and in ministry added a humanizing lens to economic issues.

Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Q: In what ways did ordinary people influence medical knowledge before traditional laboratories fully defined the field?

Downs argues that patient reports, community actors, and activists contributed to early epidemiological observations, and that these non-expert sources helped shape what clinicians later codified, especially in moments like HIV activism and the MPOX era.

Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Q: How do you acknowledge the experiences of marginalized populations in your writing without dehumanizing them?

Downs explains that he centers the voices of those marginalized by traditional histories, uses them as protagonists, and carefully chooses language to avoid implying inferiority or exoticizing, while explicitly acknowledging the violence of colonialism that enabled knowledge production.

Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

Q: What are the main theoretical interventions of your book?

The book challenges traditional ethnography by centering racialized Islam and analyzing pious transformation within racial capitalism, using concepts like racializing Islam and subjectivation to explain how pious selves are produced under power dynamics.

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