Our Professor Podcast

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. She is also a lecturer at the Met Cloisters and will be a Visiting Scholar in the Performance Studies Dept. at NYU.

Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander

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: Claiming the Homeland and is currently working on a book on the history of today’s Turkey. He regularly contributes to Haaretz, where he writes about Turkish and Israeli affairs, in addition to writing and providing political analysis to media outlets in Turkey, Israel and the US.

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Music by Nate Sander

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 completing a book manuscript based on research in Europe and Brazil on the social and economic history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first colonial capital.

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Music by Nate Sander

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 Vietnam Veterans,” and was one of the chief researchers for Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation.

Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander

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.

He is the author of such works as All the Way with LBJ : The 1964 Presidential Election (2009), Congress and the Cold War (2005), a co-author of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case (2008), and a co-editor on the presidential recordings of Lyndon B Johnson. 

Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander