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Our Professor PodcastSlavery, The Indian Ocean, and Painting: Professor Gunja SenGuptaWe made up and interviewed Professor SenGupta. It was wonderful. Professor Gunja SenGupta's current interests lie in 19th-century U.S.history as well as slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean; sectional conflict; African American and women's history. She earned her PhD from Tulane University. She is the author of For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918, and her third, co-authored, book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire, wa...
2024-01-0537 minOur Professor PodcastBoston, Tolkien, and The Future: Professor Michael RawsonYou know what, not only did Carter do nothing for this episode, his presence was harmful. A house divided cannot stand and he refuses to reach across the aisle. He's also being like really annoying when it comes to tomatoes. Refuses to eat them. Like just grow up already.Professor Michael Rawson is a historian of environmental, urban, and cultural history and is particularly interested in how ideas about nature have shaped environmental change. He studied with William Cronon while earning his PhD at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Brooklyn College in 2007, he taught at the U...
2024-01-0530 minOur Professor PodcastIndia, Families, and Tagore: Professor Swapna BanerjeeCarter had a great interview with Professor Banerjee. Only Carter.Professor Swapna Banerjee focuses on women, servants, children, fathers, masculinity, and family history. She received her BA from Presidency University, her MA from University of Calcutta, and her PhD from Temple University. She is the author of Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India, Men, Women and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal, and co-editor of Mapping Women's History. Supported by the Australian Research Council, she is currently working on a joint project that historicizes the traveling Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs of the...
2024-01-0546 minOur Professor PodcastFrance, Aging, and Pizza Ebraica: Professor David TroyanskyCarter had a terrific interview with Professor Troyansky on the latest episode of My Professor Podcast. Native New Yorker Professor David Troyansky is a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French history. He has published on the history of old age, French provincial culture, the French Revolution, and transnational space and identities in the Francophone world He returned to Brooklyn and joined the faculty of Brooklyn College in 2005 after teaching for 21 years at Texas Tech University. He earned his BA from Carleton College and his MA and PhD from Brandeis University. Over the years he has lived and...
2024-01-0532 minOur Professor PodcastCocaine, Dabbling Docs, and Lead Poisoning: Professor Chris WarrenCarter tried and failed to stop an excellent interview that Micah had with Professor Warren. He's not a real threat to the podcast, it's just kinda sad.Professor Chris Warren specializes in the history of medicine and public health in the United States. He received his BFA from Florida State University, his MLA from the University of South Florida, and his PhD from Brandeis University. and is working on a book tracing the history of American's "migration" into the indoors. His doctoral dissertation, "The Silenced Epidemic: A Social History of Lead Poisoning in the United States Since 1900,"...
2024-01-0537 minOur Professor PodcastDid George Washington Burn Down NYC?: Professor Benjamin CarpCarter interviewed Professor Carp and learned a lot. Micah on the other hand, somehow learned less than he already knew.Benjamin Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He received his BA from Yale and his MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, which won the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati in 2013, and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, and his new book, The Great New York...
2024-01-0533 minOur Professor PodcastGermany, War Crimes, and Cinema: Professor Steven RemyMicah's interview with Professor Remy went very well, no thanks to Carter.Professor Steven Remy has taught modern European history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center since 2002. He earned his BA from Miami University and his MA and PhD from Ohio University. He teaches courses in modern European and German history, Nazi Germany, the politics and culture of memory in 20th-century Europe, colonial wars, and historical methodology. He is the author of The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University, The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy, Adolf Hitler: A Reference...
2024-01-0542 minOur Professor PodcastGraffiti, Bread, and 70s Punk: Professor Karen SternCarter had an engaging talk with Professor Karen Stern and to be honest, Micah kind of dropped the ball hereProfessor Karen Stern is an award-winning author who draws from fields of archaeology, anthropology, history and religion to research the daily lives and material cultures of Jews of the ancient Mediterranean, Arabia and Mesopotamia. She earned an A.B. in Classics at Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown University and has conducted field research in Greece, the Middle East and North Africa with grants, fellowships and residencies from National Endowment for the Humanities, Council...
2024-01-0534 minOur Professor PodcastLife In Technicolor: Professor Brigid O'KeeffeMicah had an outstanding conversation with Professor O'Keeffe. Carter did alright, but was kind of a liability. Professor Brigid O'Keeffe is a historian of late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. She received her BA from Ohio University and her PhD from NYU. She is the author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise, Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia, and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union. She is currently at work on her next book, The Family Litvinov: A History of the Twentieth Century.Artwork b...
2024-01-051h 00Our Professor PodcastAsia, Dao, and Rock & Roll: Professor Andrew MeyerCarter talked with Professor Andrew Meyer. Was Micah there?Professor Andrew Meyer is a historian of the intellectual history of ancient and medieval China and teaches courses on all eras of East Asian history. He received his BA from Brown University and his PhD from Harvard. He is the author of The Dao of the Military: Liu An's Art of War and is the co-author of The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China.Artwork by Layal SuliamanMusic by Nate Sander
2024-01-0529 minOur Professor PodcastMonks, Ricotta, and Magisterial Feminae: Professor Lauren ManciaMicah and Professor Mancia had an enlightening discussion while Carter was doing something else idk.Professor Lauren Mancia is a historian of medieval Christian devotional practices. She received her BA from Columbia University, her MA from University of Toronto, and her PhD from Yale. She is the author of Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp and Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Toward God. She is also a lecturer at the Met Cloisters and will be a Visiting Scholar in the Performance Studies Dept. at NYU.
2024-01-0545 minOur Professor PodcastNew York, Istanbul, Tel Aviv: Professor Louis FishmanCarter had a spectacular conversation with Professor Louis Fishman and Micah helped out.Professor Louis Fishman is a historian of Palestinian and Israeli history during the late Ottoman period, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, modern Turkey and late Ottoman history. He divides his time between New York, Istanbul, and Tel Aviv. He finished his BA at Haifa University, and his MA and PhD at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland and is currently working on a book on the history of today’s Turkey. He re...
2024-01-0549 minOur Professor PodcastBrazil, Café, and Choirs: Professor Christopher EbertMicah and Sander had a great conversation with Professor Christopher Ebert. Professor Christopher Ebert is a historian of Latin American history from an Atlantic perspective. He received his PhD from Columbia University. His research has focused on colonial Brazil and Portuguese Atlantic expansion, including trade and shipping. He has also studied Dutch trade and Atlantic expansion. He is the author of Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy, 1550-1630 and is now completing a book manuscript based on research in Europe and Brazil on the social and economic history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first...
2024-01-0535 minOur Professor PodcastVeterans, Photography, and The Blues: Professor Philip NapoliCarter and Micah had a chat with Professor Philip Napoli. Professor Philip Napoli is a historian of 20-century US social and public history and has been involved in collecting oral histories for 18 years. He received his BA from McGill and his MA and Phd from Columbia. He is the current Department Chair of the History Department.He is the author of Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City’s Vietnam Veterans, co-curator of “In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn’s Vietnam Veterans,” and was one of the chief researchers for Tom B...
2024-01-0536 minOur Professor PodcastCampaigning From The Carriage: Professor KC JohnsonMicah and Carter sat down for a talk with Professor KC Johnson.Professor KC Johnson is a historian specializing in US constitutional history, congressional history, and diplomatic history. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard and his MA from the University of Chicago. Before coming to CUNY, he taught at Arizona State University and Williams College. He also served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at Tel Aviv University.He is the author of such works as All the Way with LBJ : The 1964 Presidential Election (2009), Congress a...
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