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In Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate (Cornell UP, 2025), Dr. Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French past—a contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggl... more

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World (Princeton UP, 2025) by Professor John Blair provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire ... more

In Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future (University of Arizona Press, 2025), archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, t... more

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origins remain the subject of heated debate. Were th... more

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian(Harvard University Press, 2018), Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Cla... more

In 1923, archaeologist Leonard Woolley stumbled upon a room that dated back to 530BC, the time of the Babylonians. Oddly, the room was filled with artifacts that were thousands of years older. A clay drum led Woolley to speculate that he might have s... more

What can a map do, beyond showing us where things are?

Michelle Wang's new book, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (U Chicago Press, 2023), explores this question through images painted on bronze, wood, and silk that were buried in tomb... more

In this episode, Sarah talks to Daniel J. Sherman about his most recent book, Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940 (U Chicago Press, 2025). Sensations is a history of the early years of professional archaeology in F... more

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Joe Watkins
Senior Consultant for Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, affiliated faculty member in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Episode: Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Angelos Chaniotis
Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Institute for Advanced Study
Episode: Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Moudhy Al-Rashid
Honorary fellow at the University of Oxford's Wolfson College and specialist in the language and history of Ancient Mesopotamia.
University of Oxford
Episode: Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Michelle Wang
Author and expert in early Chinese art and archaeology
University of Chicago Press
Episode: Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Daniel J. Sherman
Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Episode: Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
An archaeologist and historian at the University of Central Florida, director of the Kurd-Kabristan Project in Northern Iraq.
University of Central Florida
Episode: Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
Lizzie Wade
Author and science journalist specializing in archaeology and anthropology.
Harper (book publisher)
Episode: Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025)
Christopher Witmore
Professor of Archaeology and Classics
Texas Tech University
Episode: Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Graham Harman
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Southern California Institute of Architecture (PsiArch)
Episode: Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: What are the significant theories regarding Homer and the origins of epic poetry?
Theories range from single authorship to multiple poets contributing over centuries, influenced by oral traditions and cultural memories.
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: How did you come to research and write this particular study?
I grew up surrounded by the stories and monuments of Homer, which sparked my interest in connecting archaeology with his epics.
Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Q: How did the Ainu identity evolve and develop under this pressure at the turn of the century?
Watkins explains the complexities of Ainu identity formation amidst discrimination and government assimilation policies, highlighting both the desire to retain Ainu identity and negotiate their place within Japanese society.
Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Q: I'm wondering if you could tell us how you became interested in the Ainu people and the origins of the book.
Watkins recounts starting his work in archaeology, his connections to Japan through academic exchanges, and how these led to years of collaboration with Hokkaido University on Ainu archaeology.
Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Q: Is there anything you could just tell us a little bit about yourself and your background?
Joe Watkins shares his long career in archaeology, being a member of the Choctaw Nation, and the challenges of balancing his indigenous identity with his professional work.

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