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Interviews with authors of University of Chicago Press books.

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Kate Epstein
Author and scholar focused on technology and national security.
Author of Analog Superpowers
Episode: Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Ladelle McWhorter
Stephanie Bennett-Smith, Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emerita, at the University of Richmond
University of Richmond
Episode: Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Michelle Wang
Author, expert in Chinese art and archaeology
University of Chicago Press
Episode: Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Dr. David Singerman
Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Episode: David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Kevin Schultz
Professor and Chair of History at the University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois Chicago
Episode: Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Daniel J. Sherman
Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and scholar of museums and commemorative practices in modern Europe.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Episode: Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jacinto Cuvi
Associate Professor of Sociology and Development Studies
Universite Libre de Brussels
Episode: Jacinto Cuvi, "The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Dan Davies
Author of The Unaccountability Machine
University of Chicago Press
Episode: Dan Davies, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Daniel Wortel-London
Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College
Bard College
Episode: Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)

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Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Q: What led you to focus on the technology theft narrative?
The intriguing story of naval gunnery and the legal battles surrounding Pollan and Isherwood's inventions drew me into exploring the tension between national security and intellectual property rights.
Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Q: What does it mean to say that maps are diagrams? And why is it important?
Wang explains that in Early China, the distinction between a map and a diagram doesn't exist due to the shared terminology.
Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Q: Could you talk a little bit about the process of writing this book?
Michelle Wang explains the process began two years after starting her job at Reed, inspired by a drawing she discovered in archaeology reports.
Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Q: Could you sketch how you got from losing it with the dryer to the question of personhood?
I became worried about corporate power, particularly Dominion Energy, and my attempts to minimize usage led me to literally question what it means to be a good person in today's corporate-dominated world.
Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Q: Can you start off with your background as a philosopher and how you came to write this book?
I grew up in Alabama in a blue collar family and was fortunate to be able to go to college as a scholarship student; my career has been primarily in undergraduate education at liberal arts colleges.

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