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Recent Guests

Don Thomas Deere

Author of The Invention of Order on the Coloniality of Space

Texas A&M University (Philosophy), Duke University Press (publisher)

Episode: Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

Michael Staudenmaier

Author of White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago

University of North Carolina Press

Episode: Michael Staudenmaier, "White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago" (UNC Press, 2026)

Shikha Jhingan

Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Episode: Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

Jane Kanarek

Professor of Rabbinics and Dean of Faculty

Hebrew College Rabbinical School

Episode: Jane Kanarek, "Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" (Brandeis UP, 2025)

Ginger Dellenbaugh

Musician, historian of music and politics, and trained opera singer

Author of Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias

Episode: Ginger Dellenbaugh, "Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Bruno Shirley

Author of the book Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka

Heidelberg University

Episode: Bruno Shirley, "Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070-1215" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)

Mollie Barnes

Author of Paper Heroines, Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902

University of South Carolina Beaufort

Episode: Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)

Lauren Duval

Historian of North America and the Atlantic world; author of The Home Front

Omohundro Institute / UNC Press

Episode: Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)

Ronald L. Jackson II

Department Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Miami

University of Miami

Episode: On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship

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Miranda Melcher

Host of The New Books Network interview (multiple episodes)

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4.4 out of 5 stars from 125 ratings

Broad spectrum of the gender spectrum
I’ve been looking for multi-cultural gender conversations that are factual and emotionally charged…this one is perfect. Hearing from scholars from around the world helps put into perspective and also makes us see that we share certain experiences as a human culture that we will forever need to expand on. Thank you for this podcast!
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BCollLifeIsArt
United Statesa year ago
A well said arsenal of arguments against prolific bs spouted by the asinine manosphere, misogynist pmc types, & common, often unintentionally sexisxt misconceptions parroted by apolitical normies. Listening to this podcast was a cathartic and vindicating experience for me personally. it's an absolutely wildly fascinating collection of facts, citations, and analysis from two very accessible and engaging researchers that everyone needs to hear ASAP!
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therook
2 years ago
I love it
Great content! Very insightful and deep topics on gender studies from different disicplines
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rndzvs
Chile5 years ago
Just a lot of biologic essentialism, pared with a very rigid and binary view on gender.
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Kyra Typhoon
5 years ago
Excellent interviews
High quality interviews, helps to decide if to buy a book or if it’s worth the time to read
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Broad spectrum of the gender spectrum shows thoughtful, global scholarly perspectives.

Great depth and inter-disciplinary insights make it a strong book-focused interview.

Guests are typically rigorous, text-driven scholars with clear communication.

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Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

Q: To begin, how would you like to introduce the book to our listeners?

Shikha explains that the work foregrounds the sonic production of the female voice in Bombay cinema, emphasizing material practices, sound design, and the interplay of voice and image across multiple media, and aims to show how this sonic ecology shapes gendered performances.

Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

Q: You use the term transmodernity to describe a liberatory, globally entangled form of modernity. What distinguishes transmodernity from postmodernism, and what emancipatory possibilities does it offer?

Transmodernity foregrounds the global entanglement of modernity and emphasizes liberatory possibilities that emerge from cross-geographies and South-South dialogues. Unlike postmodernism, which often critiques modernity from a European-centric stance, transmodernity seeks to reconfigure modernity itself toward inclusive, emancipatory projects that acknowledge violence and domination but also point toward transformative futures.

Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

Q: Americas is described as a laboratory for modern forms of order. Could you expand on why this region functions as such and what the implications are for understanding global modernity?

The Americas served as a testing ground where space, land, and population were ordered through colonial grids, with the grid intensifying in the Americas and then re-importing into Europe in a boomerang effect. This reveals that modernity is not a singular European trajectory but a global project shaped by colonial encounters. Understanding the Americas as a laboratory helps illuminate how spatial ordering produced racialized categories and systems of control that then circulated globally.

Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

Q: In the accounts you analyze, indigenous relationships to land are often framed as illegitimate or wasteful from a colonial perspective. Why does this framing persist, and how does your work challenge it?

The framing stems from an inability to imagine land relations outside of an industrious, fixed plot model; colonial thought tends to enclose and cultivate land as the rightful labor-based claim. My work traces a prehistory of property ideas, showing that dispossession and the privileging of fixed cultivation are historically contingent and tied to broader epistemic shifts. By foregrounding diverse relationships to land and mobility, the book challenges the inevitability of enclosure and demonstrates that indigenous land relations resist the rigid grid of colonial ordering.

Fiona Rogers, "Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage" (Thames & Hudson, 2026)

Q: What are some of the early feminist collage moments in your narrative?

The book begins with 1860s examples of women creating cut-and-paste albums in domestic spaces, which served as a performance of identity and social class, and showed how women navigated male-dominated artistic spaces through collage and assemblage.

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A scholarly interview channel where researchers discuss recently published books across gender studies, history, sexuality, and related social sciences. Episodes typically pair a host with an author or expert to unpack nuanced arguments, historical contexts, and methodological approaches, often touching on topics like reproduction, race, sexuality, migration, and cultural politics. A recurring strength is rigorous, text-centered conversations that bridge archival research, theory, and contemporary implications, with guests drawn from universities, presses, and research institutes. Noteworthy is the emphasis on interdisciplinary perspectives and the careful handling of sensitive histories, making it a strong pick for listeners who want acade... more

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