History Against the Grain supports an ongoing dialogue about history, and how the stories we tell about the past frame our understandings of who we are and the world we share today. We wish to thank the artists, educators, and scholars who have made our conversations so very rich with insight and creative vision.
Ali Anooshahr
Ali Anooshahr is an award-winning Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Augstin, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic History from UCLA. He is the author of several articles, essays, and books in comparative Islamic periods. His recent book is Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires: A Study of Politics and Invented Traditions (2018).
To hear our Interview with Ali Anooshahr, listen to Episode 18 The Anarchy of History, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anarchy-of-history/id1505429529?i=1000485924718
Jeremy Best
Jeremy Best is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. His research is on the history of race, religion, and culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, and his recent book Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire (2021) investigates the theological, cultural, and political activities of missionaries, missionary societies, and missionary intellectuals in the wider context of Western imperialism and globalization. His current reserach focuses on German-American relations in the early Cold War. He is a Holocaust educator and was a Fellow at the Summer Institute of the Holocaust Educational Foundation and a participant in the Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
To hear our interview with Jeremy Best listen to Episode 36 Fatherlands, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fatherlands/id1505429529?i=1000506968560
Ricardo Catón
Ricardo Catón is History Professor at American River College, were he teaches Chicano History, Latin American History, and World History. He earned his B.A. at the University of the Pacific, and M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also taught at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Massachusetts.
To hear our interview with Ricardo Catón, listen to Episode 11 The History of Now, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-now/id1505429529?i=1000476874941
Gregory Downs
Professor, University of California, Davis
Professor Downs studies the political and cultural history of the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He focus has been the transformative impact of the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the role of military force in establishing new meanings of freedom. He is the author of several articles and three books on the era of Reconstruction, including After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War; Declarations of Dependence: The Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908; and The Second American Revolution: The Civil War Era Struggle and the Rebirth of the American Republic,. With co-editor Kate Masur, The World the Civil War Made. He and Masur also currently co-edit The Civil War Era scholarly journal.
To hear our Interview with Greg Downs, listen to Episode 28 American Amensia click the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-amnesia/id1505429529?i=1000496571039
Xin Fan
Associate Professor, SUNY Fredonia
Xin Fan is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Fredonia, where he teaches courses in world history, East Asia, and China. His research interest includes Chinese Intellectual history and historiography, and world/global history. He is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century.
To hear our interview with Xin Fan in Episode 38 The Knowledge Producers, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-knowledge-producers/id1505429529?i=1000510738770
Kyle Fitzpatrick
Teacher, Cupertino High School
Kyle Fitzpatrick has taught at Cupertino High School in Cupertino, California, since 2004, where he currently teaches U.S. Government, Economics, and AVID. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he earned a degree in both history and geography.
Kyle Fitzpatrick has taught at Cupertino High School in Cupertino, California, since 2004, where he currently teaches U.S. Government, Economics, and AVID. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he earned a degree in both history and geography.
To hear our Interviews with Kyle Fitzpatrick, listen to Episode 8 Living with History and Episode 25 Deadwood by click on the links below:
mmhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadwood/id1505429529?i=1000494127797
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-with-history/id1505429529?i=1000474696226
Edward Hashima
Professor, American River College
Edward Hashima earned his bachelors degree from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from UCLA. He is history professor at American River College, where he teaches the U.S. history survey along with the Asian American, U.S. Intellectual History, and honors courses in U.S. history. An award-winning teacher, he was also the faculty coordinator for the college’s Center for Teaching and Learning. In 2019-20 Ed was selected as an EPIC Community College Fellow for Stanford’s Global Studies Program: https://stanford.app.box.com/s/6atv9ewmefnf2i07paxwiwwlsdqnc91g
To hear Episode 34 This is Who We Are, for which Ed was our special guest HAG co-host, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-who-we-are/id1505429529?i=1000505438416
Adam Hatch
Educator, Business Owner Taipei, Taiwan
Adam Hatch is a Taipei, Taiwan-based educator, blogger, and owner of Englist, a premier elementary to High School english writing program. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a degree in Geography.
To hear our Interview with Adam Hatch, listen to Episode 5 Sparks of Hope in the Past, by clicking on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sparks-of-hope-in-the-past/id1505429529?i=1000472497286
André Just
André Just is a New York City-based artist and art writer. After immigrating from his native Haiti to the U.S., André attended Brooklyn College where he devoured works on the African Diaspora and post-colonialism.
To hear our Interview with André Just, listen to Episode 21: listen to Haiti.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/listen-to-haiti/id1505429529?i=1000488763969
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Vincent Leung
Professor, Vincent Leung is Department Head and Associate Professor of History at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He earned both an B.S. degree in Mathematics and Economics and a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. His specialty is the intellectual history and historiography of early China. His recent book is The Politics of the Past in Early China (2019).
To hear our Interview with Vincent Leung, listen to Episode 7 The Past is Political, click on the links below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-past-is-political/id1505429529?i=1000473962517
Patrick Manning
Patrick Manning is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, Emeritus, at the University of Pittsburgh. He served from 2008 to 2015 as founding director of the World History Center, within the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.
Trained as a specialist in the economic history of Africa, Manning also became a specialist in world history overall. Since 2014 he has focused on theorizing human history, including early social evolution, institutional change through social groups and networks, the history of science and knowledge, and on today’s inequality, environmental destruction, and popular social movements. These new studies draw on his earlier work in demographic history (African slave trade), social and cultural history of francophone Africa, global migration, and the African diaspora—all as dimensions of global history.
Manning served as president of the American Historical Association (AHA) from 2016 to 2017 and as vice president of the AHA Teaching Division, from 2004 to 2006. He is also president of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research and international exchange in world history. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology (B.S. in Chemistry, 1963) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (M.S. in history and economics, Ph.D. in history, 1969). Manning was at Northeastern University for two decades before moving to the University of Pittsburgh in 2006.
https://patrickmanningworldhistorian.com/about-patrick-manning/
To hear our interview with Patrick Manning in Episode 42 The Human System, click on the link below:
Jordan McGowan
Jordan McGowan is an educator, coach, and activist in Sacramento, California, where he teaches history at Rio Terra Junior High School.
To hear our interview with Jordan McGowan in Episode 14 A World Cut in Two, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-world-cut-in-two/id1505429529?i=1000479707120
Elise Robison
Teacher, Cupertino High School
Since 2010 Elise Robison has taught U.S. History, World History, Government, Economics, and AVID at Cupertino High School in Cupertino, California. She attended the University of California, San Diego and earned a degree in History with a minor in Sociology. Elise has studied with Gilder Lehrman and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
To hear our Interviews with Elise Robison, listen to Episode 8 Living with History and Episode 25 Deadwood by click on the links below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadwood/id1505429529?i=1000494127797
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-with-history/id1505429529?i=1000474696226
Jenny Padgett
Teacher, Cupertino High School
Since 2002 Jenny Padgett has taught high school english, both college prep and advanced placement, along with teaching the Theory of Knowledge for the International Bacalaurete program. She is a graduate of Weber State University, where she earned a degree in both English and History.
To hear our Interview with Jenny Padgett, listen to Episode 15 There’s Something About Karen:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theres-something-about-karen/id1505429529?i=1000482293892
Pernille Røge
Pernille Røge is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses in Atlantic History, the French Revolution, Slavery and Abolition, the West and the World, and Europe in the eighteenth Century. She is also affiliated with Pitt’s Early Modern Worlds Initiative. She earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge. Her publications focus on the area of French political economy and unfree labor in the Atlantic World and Indian Ocean, and her recent book is Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802.
To hear our interview with Pernille Røge in Episode 24 Polyrhythmic History, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/polyrhythmic-history/id1505429529?i=1000493346511
Priya Satia
Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University. She earned her advanced degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the London School of Economics. Her scholarly focus is the material and intellectual infrastructure of the modern world in the age of empire.
Her first book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (OUP, 2008) won the 2009 AHA-Herbert Baxter Adams Book Prize, the 2009 AHA-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, and the 2010 Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Prize.
Her second book, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (Penguin Press/Duckworth, 2018) won the 2019 Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Prize, the Wadsworth Prize in Business History, and the AHA’s Jerry Bentley Prize in world history. It was also a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in History and shortlisted for the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
Prof. Satia’s third book, Time’s Monster: How History Makes History (Belknap HUP/Penguin Allen Lane, 2020), focuses on the role of the modern historical imagination in the history of the British empire, while also recovering alternative ethical visions embraced by anticolonial thinkers.
Her work has also appeared in the American Historical Review, Past and Present, Technology and Culture, Humanity, Annales, History Workshop Journal, edited volumes across a range of fields (e.g. environmental history, Middle Eastern history, the Indian Ocean world, British politics, aerospatial theory, humanitarianism), and mainstream media (the Financial Times, the Nation, Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Aeon, the Tribune, Slate.com, CNN.com, and other sites).
To hear our interview with Priya Satia in Episode 47 Time’s Monster, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/times-monster/id1505429529?i=1000527595443
Gina Anne Tam
Gina Anne Tam is an assistant professor of history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She completed her Ph.D. in modern Chinese history at Stanford University in 2016, and received her B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Her book, Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 was published in 2020 by the University of Cambridge Press and tackles the question of language and nationalism in modern China. You can visit her website https://www.ginaannetam.com.
To hear our interview with Gina Anne Tam in Episode 44 Who and What We Are, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-and-what-we-are/id1505429529?i=1000522620842
Molly Warsh
Molly Warsh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches courses in world history, the Portuguese Empire, environmental history, and early America. She earned her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her book American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire 1492-1700 (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2018) considered the global repercussions of patterns of human and environmental resource management established in the sixteenth-century Spanish Caribbean pearl fisheries. She also co-edited with Philip D. Morgan, Early North America in Global Perspective. Routledge, 2013. Molly is also Associate Director of the World History Center and Head of Educational Outreach
To hear our interview with Molly Warsh in Episode 26 American Baroque, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-baroque/id1505429529?i=1000494948682
Benno Weiner
Benno Weiner is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches courses in Chinese Imperial History and Modern China. He earned a B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and his research focusses on Modern China and Tibet. His recent book is The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (2020). Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Weiner taught at Appalachian State University.
To hear our interviews with Benno Weiner in Episode 5 Sparks of Hope in the Past and Episode and Episode 20 Weaponizing History, click on the links below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sparks-of-hope-in-the-past/id1505429529?i=1000472497286
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weaponizing-history/id1505429529?i=1000488107367
Asha Wilkerson
Asha Wilkerson is an award-winning Attorney and Professor and Department Chair of Legal Studies at American River College. She earned her undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University with a major in English and Communications, before going to the UC Hasting College of the Law in San Francisco, where she earned the J.D. degree. Her legal career has centered on human rights with a focus on assisting in the empowerment of underserved communities.
To hear our interview with Asha Walkerson in Episode 17 The Imaginaries of Power, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weaponizing-history/id1505429529?i=1000488107367
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