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March 2, 2020 (May 26, 2020)

Q&A with Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado, co-editors of Degrees of Difference

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Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado recently answered some questions about their new book, Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School. Contributors include: Aeriel A. […]

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January 8, 2020 (October 17, 2019)

Q&A with Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, author of Reimagining Liberation

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Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French at the University of Michigan. She recently answered some questions about her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French […]

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November 13, 2019 (October 31, 2019)

Top Five Tips For Traveling With Service Animals

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Henry Kisor and Christine Goodier, authors of Traveling with Service Animals: By Air, Road, Rail, and Ship Across North America, share their top tips for traveling with service animals just in […]

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October 21, 2019 (October 17, 2019)

Q&A with Sonja Lynn Downing, author of Gamelan Girls

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Sonja Lynn Downing is an an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Lawrence University. She recently answered some questions about her book, Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles. Q: […]

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October 14, 2019 (October 30, 2019)

Q&A with Vincent L. Stephens, author of Rocking the Closet

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Vincent L. Stephens is the director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity and a contributing faculty member in music at Dickinson College. He is a coeditor of Post Racial […]

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September 11, 2019 (September 4, 2019)

So You Want to Read Joanna Russ: Reading Guide by Gwyneth Jones

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Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped […]

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September 4, 2019 (July 22, 2019)

Q&A with Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of Kansas City vs. Oakland

author commentary Q&A sports history

Matthew C. Ehrlich is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture and Radio Utopia: Postwar […]

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August 29, 2019 (August 29, 2019)

Q&A with Richa Nagar, author of “Hungry Translations”

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Richa Nagar is Professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts and a core faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of […]

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August 19, 2019 (July 22, 2019)

Q&A with Hannah Durkin, author of “Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham”

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Hannah Durkin is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. She recently answered some questions about her new […]

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July 23, 2019

Roxanne Panchasi on “No Hiroshima in Africa”

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Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (2009), […]

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July 15, 2019 (July 11, 2019)

Q&A with Robert Lemon, author of “The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City”

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Robert Lemon is an urban and social researcher and documentary filmmaker. His films include Transfusión (2014), a series of vignettes on the cultural implications of taco trucks. He recently answered some questions […]

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July 9, 2019 (June 27, 2019)

Karen E. Whedbee on “Reverend Billy Goes to Main Street: Free Speech, Trespassing, and Activist Documentary Film”

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Karen E. Whedbee is an associate professor in the media studies program in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. She has published widely on topics related to free […]

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