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The Black Studies Podcast

The Black Studies Podcast

The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field.

Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski

322 episodesEN

Show overview

The Black Studies Podcast has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 322 episodes. That works out to roughly 300 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 47 min and 1h 2m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 111 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski.

Episodes
322
Running
2024–2026 · 2y
Median length
55 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

Latest Episodes

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Alex Gil - Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University

Sep 30, 20261h 21m

Samantha Pinto - Department of English, University of Texas, Austin

Sep 28, 202647 min

Zahra Caldwell - Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies, Westfield State University

Sep 25, 202645 min

Will Mosley - Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland

Sep 23, 20261h 0m

Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh - Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University

Sep 21, 20261h 27m

Earl Brooks - Department of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Sep 18, 20261h 35m

Yveline Alexis - Department of Africana Studies, Oberlin College

Sep 16, 202652 min

Shana L. Redmond - Department of English, Columbia University

Sep 14, 202645 min

Mabel Wilson - Departments of Architecture and of African American and African Diasporic Studies, Columbia University

Sep 11, 202644 min

Brandon Byrd - Department of African American Studies, Vanderbilt University

Sep 9, 202653 min

James Smethurst - Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sep 7, 20261h 16m

Marcia Chatelain - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Sep 4, 202629 min

Yvonne Chireau - Department of Black Studies, Swarthmore College

Sep 2, 202658 min

Régine Jean-Charles - Department of Africana Studies, Northeastern University

Aug 31, 20261h 9m

Paula Austin - Department of African American and Black Diaspora Studies, Boston University

Aug 28, 20261h 2m

Ra Malika Imhotep - Department of Global and Diaspora Studies, Spelman College

Aug 26, 202658 min

Janelle Brady, Toronto Metropolitan University - Ezi Odozor, Writer and Activist - and Njoki Wane, University of Toronto

Aug 24, 20261h 5m

Alix Chapman - Department of African American Studies, Emory University

Aug 21, 20261h 0m

Jonathan Howard - Departments of English and Black Studies, Yale University

Aug 19, 202658 min

Meredith Gadsby - Department of Africana Studies, Oberlin College

Aug 17, 20261h 7m
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