My guest is Yuhua Wang, professor of Government here at Harvard. We are going to be talking about your new book published by Princeton University Press in October entitled, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 8: Yuhua Wang
I’m delighted to have with me as a guest for the discussion Frank Dobbin, who is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology and who is co-author of the really important new book –Getting to Diversity– What Works and What Doesn’t….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 7: Frank Dobbin
My guest for this discussion is Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy. And he is also currently chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies. We are focused on Professor Shelby’s newest book, The Idea of Prison Abolition….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 6: Tommie Shelby
It is my pleasure to be talking with William C Kirby today. He is the TM Chang Professor of China Studies as well as the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration. We’ll be talking about his new book, Empires of Ideas….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 5: William C. Kirby
My guest today is Caroline Elkins, and we will be talking about her major new book, Legacy of Violence, A History of the British Empire, published this year by Knopf. Professor Elkins, welcome. You are, of course, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Imperial Reckoning, The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 4: Caroline Elkins
My guest today is Claudia Goldin. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics in the Economics Department and is the author of a major new book from Princeton University Press entitled Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 3: Claudia Goldin
My guests are Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and together they’ve written a fascinating new book entitled Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation. This is really an exciting piece of work….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 2: Edward Glaeser & David Cutler
My guest today is David Pedulla, a professor of sociology and of public policy, and a relatively new arrival here to Cambridge. We will be talking about his latest book Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 1: David Pedulla
