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Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that pre...
A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, Wh...
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Em...
In the Greco-Roman world, gods were known to tame soundscapes, or acoustic landscapes. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, and other Classical deities de...
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth explores how stones, rocks, and the broad...
Humanities Theory (Oxford UP, 2026) pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humaniti...
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the P...
On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts...
By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician,...
In this fifth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Ea...
Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on Joh...
How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideo...
Amir Saemi’s exciting book Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (Oxford UP, 2024) is a fascinating a...
In this fourth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and E...
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom by Mark Pennington This highly original and innovative book is the fir...
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as...
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognize...
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administra...
On Feb. 6, 1945, just three days after the U.S. army started to fight the Japanese in the city of Manila, General Douglas MacArthur declared...
In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that...
Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a tr...
Katelyn Stauffer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, has an excellent new book focusing on how voters an...
Borneo—split between two countries, home to some of the world’s oldest rainforests and a vast array of animal and plant life—is back in the...
Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement (Oxford UP, 2024) is a close-to-the-ground, ethnographic narrative of...
The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and expl...
Given the sometimes extraordinary politicization of culture, it is surprising that Sesame Street has gained acceptance and legitimacy in mor...
Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939 (Oxford UP, 2025) by Professor Eleanor Gordon, Professor Katie Barclay...
The battlefields were not the only places that threatened death during World War I. As conflict raged on and supply lines tightened, the all...
How can music change people’s lives? In Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music (Oxford UP, Press 2025) Ailbhe Kenny, an Associate Profess...
Jewish law, known as halakhah, is a unique legal system that has developed over a period of nearly two millennia, across multiple continents...
Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford UP, 2024) by Dr. Allison Powers offers a new...
Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nat...
How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this...
Walter Lippmann was arguably the most recognized and respected political journalist of the twentieth century. His "Today and Tomorrow" colum...
An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are w...
All over the world, masses of people watch, follow, document, and obsess over baseball. Everything remarkable about the impact of baseball d...
This episode is brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. African Climate Futures (Oxford UP, 2025) shows h...
What seems mundane today—walking into a supermarket, picking up goods, and paying at a checkout—was once a radical experiment. In our latest...
In The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India (Oxford UP, 2025), Elaine Fisher reconstructs Vīraśaiva origins from un...
Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and Germ...
In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Professor Daniel Langton, author of Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with...
While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for d...
In this book, What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine (Oxford University Press...
Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global econom...
Coined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term "voodoo" has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual prac...
“Liberal egalitarianism” refers to a family of political views that are “liberal” in taking individual rights to be of premier importance an...
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023). Few people question the importa...
Betty Boyd Caroli's biography of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch is the first full-length work on a seminal figure in the settlement house moveme...
In eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties—it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage:...
The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than...