Delving In with Stuart Kelter

Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Each one deserves a poem! A conversation and recitations with poet Jessy Randall.Jessy Randall is curator of special collections at Colorado College and the author of several poetry collections, including Suicide Hotline Hold Music, (which includes her own accompanying comics), There Was an Old Woman, Injecting Dreams into Cows, and A Day in Boyland, which was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She has also written a young adult novel The Wandora Unit, about poetry nerds in high school, and a collection of collaborative poems, Interruptions, written with Daniel M. Shapiro. Randall’s most recent book, Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science,” empathizes with the challenges these women faced and their complex responses, conveying a mix of reverence and vicarious irreverence, outrage and bemusement, anger and equanimity, pride and cheerful self-effacement.(Recorded 11/1/22.)Note: This episode won Second Place in the Podcast Division of the New Mexico Press Women 2023 Communications Contest. (The Delving In interview with Jamie Raskin (Episode #12) won First place.)

A professor of social science, anthropology, and Italian studies at Brown University, David Kertzer is the author of thirteen books. The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 and the American Historical Association prize for best book in Italian history. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara was a National Book Award finalist in 1997 and will be adapted for film by Steven Spielberg, with the screenplay by Tony Kushner. His latest book, published this year, is The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler, which is the subject of this interview.(Recorded 9/22/22.)

Stuart Kelter interviews Dr. Chris Churchill, a professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University, whose work focuses on the evolution of galaxies using chemical line spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with state-of-the-art cosmological simulation software. He has also taught futuristic classes – entitled, “Life in the Universe,” “Into the Final Frontier,” and “Space Colonization.”(Recorded 8/19/21.)