Micah Sander and Carter Greene interview Brooklyn College’s history professors to give students insight into their specialties, how they got where they are, and their personal interests.
Slavery, The Indian Ocean, and Painting: Professor Gunja SenGupta
We 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-...
5 Jan 2024
New York, Istanbul, Tel Aviv: Professor Louis Fishman
Carter 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: Clai...
5 Jan 2024
Cocaine, Dabbling Docs, and Lead Poisoning: Professor Chris Warren
Carter 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 disser...
5 Jan 2024
France, Aging, and Pizza Ebraica: Professor David Troyansky
Carter 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 e...
5 Jan 2024
Boston, Tolkien, and The Future: Professor Michael Rawson
You 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 earni...
5 Jan 2024
Monks, Ricotta, and Magisterial Feminae: Professor Lauren Mancia
Micah 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. S...
5 Jan 2024
Asia, Dao, and Rock & Roll: Professor Andrew Meyer
Carter 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
5 Jan 2024
Did George Washington Burn Down NYC?: Professor Benjamin Carp
Carter 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 America...
5 Jan 2024
India, Families, and Tagore: Professor Swapna Banerjee
Carter 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 Histo...
5 Jan 2024
Life In Technicolor: Professor Brigid O'Keeffe
Micah 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 i...
5 Jan 2024
Graffiti, Bread, and 70s Punk: Professor Karen Stern
Carter 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 ...
5 Jan 2024
Veterans, Photography, and The Blues: Professor Philip Napoli
Carter 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 Viet...
5 Jan 2024
Brazil, Café, and Choirs: Professor Christopher Ebert
Micah 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 comple...
5 Jan 2024
Campaigning From The Carriage: Professor KC Johnson
Micah 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....
5 Jan 2024
Germany, War Crimes, and Cinema: Professor Steven Remy
Micah'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 Nazifi...
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