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The COVID-19 pandemic delivered its first and most devastating strike in the United States in New York City in the Spring of 2020. Closely connected to the world by air travel, with a virus able to circle the globe in a single flight, and with a popu... more

Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without being linked to animals. So how did the rat become the symbol of one of history's deadliest diseases? In... more

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool UP, 2026) is about the way the Romantic National Tale exercises power and defines the boundaries of citizenship through the categories of health, illness,... more

Kira Ganga Kieffer (Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University; PhD, Boston University, 2023) studies contemporary American spiritualities, health, gender, and marketing. Her first book, a history of religion and vaccine s... more

Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.

For centuries, opium has been... more

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussmannization,” helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded... more

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Katie Batza on their recently published book, AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics. Published by the University of North Carolina Press, AIDS in the Heartl... more

Most people today understand contraception as central to women’s liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it would usher in a sexual revolution. But a surprising number of religious Americans in the mid-twentieth... more

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Matthew L. Reznicek
Associate Professor of Medical Humanities
University of Minnesota Medical School
Episode: Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Kira Kieffer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
Episode: Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Benjamin Siegel
Historian; associate professor of history at Boston University
Boston University
Episode: Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Peter Soppelsa
Author of Paris After Haussmann, Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914
University of Oklahoma
Episode: Peter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
Katie Batza
Health activist, author of AIDS in the Heartland
University of Kansas
Episode: Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
Miranda Yaver
Author of Coverage Denied; political scientist focusing on health policy
Cambridge University Press (publisher)
Episode: Miranda Yaver, "Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Samira Mehta
Author, God Bless the Pill
University of North Carolina Press
Episode: Samira K. Mehta, "God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion" (UNC Press, 2026)
David Blumenthal
Physician, professor at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; former government advisor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Harvard Medical School; U.S. government
Episode: David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science" (Yale UP, 2026)
James Morone
Professor of political science, public policy, and urban studies at Brown University
Brown University
Episode: David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science" (Yale UP, 2026)

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Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Q: what is the Glorvina solution and why is it central to understanding the national tale's politics of health?
The Glorvina solution refers to the way the English protagonist gains social legitimacy through the benevolence and legitimacy granted by Glorvina and her Irish family, highlighting how health and illness intersect with power, belonging, and national legitimacy in the narrative.
Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Q: could tell us more about how you came to this project, what got you interested in the genre of national tale, and reading it through a lens of health and biopolitics?
The project grew from teaching two classes simultaneously—one on nationalism in Romantic fiction and another on medical humanities—revealing recurring patterns of health, caregiving, and biopolitics that shaped the book's argument.
Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
Q: How do you define 'home' in relation to individuals with HIV/AIDS, and what does the White Heartland imaginary mean for care and community?
Home is a flexible concept encompassing where one hangs their hat, where one is ill, and where communities create care; the White Heartland imaginary often excludes certain groups, complicating care and visibility but offering a framework to examine shared obligations and legitimacy.
Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
Q: Could you share a little bit about how you came to this project and what methods you used?
Batza describes stumbling into archives on campus, using oral histories to complement archival research, and recognizing the Heartland as a discursive space that challenges traditional HIV/AIDS historiography.
The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
Q: What inspired you to undertake this project?
The book grew out of long-standing engagement with families who lost loved ones to police violence, a recognition that autopsy records and death investigations were opaque, and a commitment to building a democratic, transparent system by assembling a public death ledger and working with communities to hold authorities accountable.

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Scholarly conversations that pair authors and researchers with expert hosts to unpack recently published work in health, public health policy, medical history, and related social themes. Episodes regularly explore how medicine, biopolitics, religion, race, and social structures intersect with public health, policy, and everyday life, often weaving in historical case studies and methodological insights. The format tends to be studio-style interviews that illuminate complex ideas through accessible storytelling, practical examples, and close readings of texts. Noteworthy aspects include a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches, long-form book discussions, and guests who are university professors, researchers, or researchers-turned-au... more

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