Penn Press Podcasts

Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the history of urban inequality and answers the question posed by the title of his latest book Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Oct 1, 2010. Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss the facets of Sustainable Lifeways, how humans adapt to changes in their environment over time.

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May 5, 2011. Listen to a candid talk with Martin H. Krieger, Professor of Planning at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development and author of Urban Tomographies. Krieger's latest book scans contemporary Los Angeles to illuminate different aspects of a community, from work to worship.

Jan 18, 2011. Stephen A. Mitchell is Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University and author of Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages, a full examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia.

Dec 2, 2010. Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the editor of Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs, a new volume on the politics and economics of human migration.

Nov 1, 2010. Anne Trubek, journalist and Associate Professor at Oberlin College, recounts her travels to writer's house museums across the United States. She has visited Hannibal, MO, the birthplace of Mark Twain; the Hemingway house in Key West, FL; and Concord, MA, home to Louisa May Alcott and a host of other American authors.

Sept 1, 2010. Rutgers University historian Howard Gillette, Jr., author of Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism, covers a century of urban planning, architecture, and reform efforts.

Aug 2, 2010. UCLA professor Felicity Nussbaum discusses the birth of celebrity culture and the changing roles of actress and women on stage and off in eighteenth-century England.

Feb 1, 2010. David Zaring of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania discusses Import Safety. What can governments, businesses and consumers do to eliminate dangerous products from the world marketplace? Zaring is co-editor, along with Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, of Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy

Sep, 2, 2009. Historian Steven Conn discusses how museums have changed over the past century and the role they play in contemporary American life.

Aug, 3, 2009. International relations scholar Mahmood Monshipouri talks about identity politics in the Muslim world.

July, 1, 2009. Joan Johnson-Freese, Professor and Chair of the Department of National Security Studies at the Naval War College, talks about U. S. military interests in space.

May, 1, 2009. Elise Lemire talks about the history of slavery in the Concord area, including Walden Pond, and the lives of African Americans in the area before Thoreau.