This week I am joined by West Virginia University Ph.D. student Tristan Williams. We discuss her transition from studying psychology to the discipline of history, and how that impacts her research. Speaking of her research, Tristan discusses both the anxieties surrounding the potential of mutually assured destruction and disparities in civil defense planning in the Appalachian region. She tells us how the COVID19 Epidemic has impacted both West Virginia and her studies. We also briefly talk about the reflection of the Cold War in popular culture and cryptids. A very fun wide-ranging conversation.  You can find Tristan on Twitter @the_T_inHistory and you can find her Podcast Mountain Mamas + One Dude here: https://soundcloud.com/user-586961921

This week I am joined by Arash Azizi, a Ph.D. Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies. We discuss his forthcoming dissertation looking at the role that both Iran and the Arab World had in constructing the Global Cold War. Arash also talks about socialist and Islamist movements during the Global Sixties and beyond. We also touch on his work with IranWire, growing up in Iran in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War, and, finally, his pending first book: The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, The US and Iran's Global Ambitions.  Arash provided a fun and informative hour that went by too quickly.  You can find Arash on Twitter @arash_tehran

For Arash's work with IranWire look here: https://iranwire.com/en/author/929

For information on, or to pre-order his book look here: https://oneworld-publications.com/the-shadow-commander-hb.html

This week I am joined by Syracuse University Ph.D. candidate Thomas Bouril to discuss his forthcoming dissertation. Thomas studies how the colonial state, missionaries, and the Kikuyu community fought over who qualified as children and how society should treat children throughout the colonial period. We also discuss the realities of doing doctoral research in a time of the COVID19 pandemic, and a myriad of other topics. A fun conversation, Thomas can occasionally be found on Twitter @ThomasBouril 

This week I am joined by one of my colleagues from Marquette University's History graduate program, Ambar Rodriquez. Ambar is currently teaching high school in California and I wanted to have her on to discuss both her experiences as an educator and what it was like teaching during the COVID19 Epidemic. We also discussed her research into Californian History. To find out more information about decolonizing your curriculum. Please visit, Decolonize your Curriculum on Facebook @thelitcircle 

This week I am joined by the University of Arkansas Ph.D. candidate Alex Marino to discuss his forthcoming dissertation, “Space, Race, and the Cold War in Africa: The United States and Portuguese Angola.” We discuss American intervention in Angola in 1975-1976, during which the Central Intelligence Agency, Zaire, and South Africa were defeated by Angolan communists led by Cuba and the Soviet Union—giving specific attention to Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi. Alex also reveals how the Space Race influenced US Foreign Policy towards Angola individually and Southern Africa as a region. You can find Alex on Twitter at @Alex_J_Marino 

This week I am joined by Marquette University Ph.D. Candidate Michele Weber to talk about her research into how the American Military continued to enforce the punishments towards homosexual victims of the Holocaust in the American zone of Occupation from 1945-47. We discuss the establishment of Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code & US and German attitudes towards homosexuality prior and post 1933. Michele addresses the two major German movements (Hirschfeld & Radszuweit) that advocated for homosexual rights from the end of the 1890s until June 30th, 1934--the infamous Night of the Long Knives. She then provides two specific examples of arrests of men by the Nazis for homosexual behavior that were subsequently prosecuted by the United States military after Occupation. 

This week I am joined by JLTV's Brad Pomerance to discuss the history of Sephardic Jews, specifically those of Portugal from the "golden era" through the years of the Portuguese Inquisition.  Brad also talks about his travels and his family's experience during the Holocaust. An enlightening conversation.  You can follow Brad on Twitter @bradpomerance. You can find JLTV @JewishLifeTV. 

For more information on Brad's global travel show "Air, Land & Sea" visit http://jltv.tv/page.php?id=141&play=335/

If, like me, you want to someday visit Portugal after listing to Brad talk about it (Once international travel is a thing again) check out the Visit Portugal website: https://www.visitportugal.com/en

This week I am joined by Dr. Bryan Rindfleisch, an Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University who specializes in Early (Colonial) American, Native American, and Atlantic World history. We discuss his education and training as well as his new book, George Galphin's Intimate Empire: The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America available from the University of Alabama Press. We also discuss the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) and the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW). After the recording, Dr. Rindfleisch also gave a recommendation for an indigenous podcast, the All My Relations podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/adrienne-keene/all-my-relations 

You can find his book: http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/George-Galphins-Intimate-Empire,7100.aspx

More on GLIFWC: https://www.glifwc.org/About/

More on CSVANW: https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/

This week I am joined by the University of Michigan alumnus Nick Machinski. Nick is the man behind the A History of the Inca podcast, a deep dive into the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. We talk about his education and experience in archaeology and how he became a podcaster. You can find more information about the Inca on Nick's website https://ahistoryoftheinca.wordpress.com/, and you can follow him on Twitter @Incapodcast a fun episode. Check it out!

This week I am joined by Brian M. Watson to discuss the history of Sexology. Brian is an Archivist-Historian for the Consensual Non-Monogamies taskforce of the American Psychological Association. They also work as a graduate assistant at the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections. We discuss their first book, "Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad" along with current projects and Brian's thoughts on Foucault. A fun episode I hope you will enjoy. You can find Brian on Twitter @Brimwats and follow along with their website https://www.brimwats.com . Brian's book can be found here: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/annals-of-pornographie-how-porn-became-bad