Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
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An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals with Matthew Engelke
Aug 28, 202654 min
Yuri Pines, "China's Aristocratic Age: Politics and Power in the Springs-and-Autumns Period" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 27, 202646 min
How to Write a Book Proposal and Make Your Manuscript Work with Laura Portwood-Stacer
Aug 26, 202626 min
David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 26, 202631 min
Paul Johnson, "Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 26, 202650 min
Arturo Chang, "A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 20, 202645 min
Bordering On Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality
Aug 13, 202651 min
Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 12, 202655 min
Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 10, 202648 min
Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 20261h 26m
In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship
Aug 6, 202659 min
The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez
Jul 30, 2026
Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 29, 202645 min
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202651 min
Max H. Bazerman, "Negotiation: The Game Has Changed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 24, 20261h 10m
Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 23, 202641 min
Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 3m
Philippa Gander, "Life in Sync: The Science of Internal Clocks and How We’re Disrupting Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 13, 202656 min
A. G. Hopkins, "The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 9, 202654 min
Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families
Jul 9, 202656 min
Lila Corwin Berman, "Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 6, 20261h 3m
Alexandre Frenette, "Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 6, 202643 min
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jul 1, 202656 min
Jeremy D. Popkin, "The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 1, 20261h 4m
Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 26, 202647 min
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 23, 202646 min
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 16, 20261h 31m
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 16, 202658 min
Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 3, 202652 min
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 2, 202640 min
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 30, 20261h 6m
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 20, 20261h 4m
Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 13, 202643 min
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 9, 20261h 5m
Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 8, 202638 min
Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 7, 202645 min
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "The Gospel of John: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 6, 202650 min
William Stell, "Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 5, 202647 min
Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 1, 20261h 32m
David Womersley, "Thinking Through Shakespeare" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 28, 20261h 1m
Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202655 min
Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202642 min
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202647 min
Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 17, 20261h 1m
Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 15, 20261h 5m
Michael L. Satlow, "An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 13, 202653 min
Money Beyond Borders with Barry Eichengreen
Apr 13, 202659 min