Our Professor Podcast

Micah Sander & Carter Greene

Micah Sander and Carter Greene interview Brooklyn College’s history professors to give students insight into their specialties, how they got where they are, and their personal interests. 

  1. 01/05/2024

    Slavery, The Indian Ocean, and Painting: Professor Gunja SenGupta

    We made up and interviewed Professor SenGupta. It was wonderful. Professor Gunja SenGupta's current interests lie in 19th-century U.S.history  as well as slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean; sectional conflict; African American and women's history. She earned her PhD from Tulane University. She is the author of For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas,  From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918, and her third, co-authored, book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire, was just published by the University of California Press in 2023. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including the American Historical Review, Journal of African American History, Civil War History, Kansas History,  Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Transition Magazine.  Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  2. 01/05/2024

    Boston, Tolkien, and The Future: Professor Michael Rawson

    You know what, not only did Carter do nothing for this episode, his presence was harmful. A house divided cannot stand and he refuses to reach across the aisle.  He's also being like really annoying when it comes to tomatoes. Refuses to eat them. Like just grow up already. Professor Michael Rawson is a historian of environmental, urban, and cultural history and is particularly interested in how ideas about nature have shaped environmental change. He studied with William Cronon while earning his PhD at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Brooklyn College in 2007, he taught at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. Rawson is the author of Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, which was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History, and The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future. He is also a member of the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently working on a large-scale, narrative history of Boston. Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  3. 01/05/2024

    India, Families, and Tagore: Professor Swapna Banerjee

    Carter had a great interview with Professor Banerjee. Only Carter. Professor Swapna Banerjee focuses on women, servants, children, fathers, masculinity, and family history. She received her BA from Presidency University, her MA from University of Calcutta, and her PhD from Temple University. She is the author of Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India, Men, Women and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal, and co-editor of Mapping Women's History. Supported by the Australian Research Council, she is currently working on a joint project that historicizes the traveling Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was the Endowed Chair in Women's and Gender Studies from 2016-2018 and has been selected as a Distinguished Scholar for the Advanced Research Collective at the CUNY Graduate Center. Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  4. 01/05/2024

    France, Aging, and Pizza Ebraica: Professor David Troyansky

    Carter had a terrific interview with Professor Troyansky on the latest episode of My Professor Podcast. Native New Yorker Professor David Troyansky is a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French history. He has published on the history of old age, French provincial culture, the French Revolution, and transnational space and identities in the Francophone world He returned to Brooklyn and joined the faculty of Brooklyn College in 2005 after teaching for 21 years at Texas Tech University. He earned his BA from Carleton College and his MA and PhD from Brandeis University. Over the years he has lived and conducted research in Paris, Provence, Picardy, Alsace, Normandy and the Limousin. He has taught at the Université de Limoges and held a Fulbright senior research fellowship at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. In 2008 he was president of the Western Society for French History and served as chair of the Department of History at Brooklyn College from 2005-2013. He is the author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France and Aging in World History, and a co-editor on Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World and The French Revolution in Culture and Society. Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  5. 01/05/2024

    Cocaine, Dabbling Docs, and Lead Poisoning: Professor Chris Warren

    Carter tried and failed to stop an excellent interview that Micah had with Professor Warren. He's not a real threat to the podcast, it's just kinda sad. Professor Chris Warren specializes in the history of medicine and public health in the United States. He received his BFA from Florida State University, his MLA from the University of South Florida, and his PhD from Brandeis University. and is working on a book tracing the history of American's "migration" into the indoors. His doctoral dissertation, "The Silenced Epidemic: A Social History of Lead Poisoning in the United States Since 1900," won the American Society for Environmental History's Rachel Carson Prize. He is the author of Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning, which won the APHA'a Arthur Viseltear Award, co-author of Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America, completing his latest book, Starved for Light: How Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency Shaped Modern America, and is working on a book tracing the history of American's "migration" into the indoors. He has published articles in the Journal of Southern History, Business History Review and Public Health Reports, and guest editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  6. 01/05/2024

    Did George Washington Burn Down NYC?: Professor Benjamin Carp

    Carter interviewed Professor Carp and learned a lot. Micah on the other hand, somehow learned less than he already knew. Benjamin Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He received his BA from Yale and his MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, which won the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati in 2013, and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, and his new book, The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution. He has written about nationalism, firefighters, wet nurses, Benjamin Franklin, and Quaker merchants in Charleston, for scholarly journals like Early American Studies, Civil War History, New York History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and popular publications such as BBC History, Colonial Williamsburg, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.  Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  7. 01/05/2024

    Germany, War Crimes, and Cinema: Professor Steven Remy

    Micah's interview with Professor Remy went very well, no thanks to Carter. Professor Steven Remy has taught modern European history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center since 2002. He earned his BA from Miami University and his MA and PhD from Ohio University. He teaches courses in modern European and German history, Nazi Germany, the politics and culture of memory in 20th-century Europe, colonial wars, and historical methodology. He is the author of The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University, The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy, Adolf Hitler: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works, and War Crimes: Law, Politics, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World. He appears as a commentator in the National Geographic documentary series, Hitler: the Lost Tapes of The Third Reich, streaming on Hulu. Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

  8. 01/05/2024

    Graffiti, Bread, and 70s Punk: Professor Karen Stern

    Carter had an engaging talk with Professor Karen Stern and to be honest, Micah kind of dropped the ball here Professor Karen Stern is an award-winning author who draws from fields of archaeology, anthropology, history and religion to research the daily lives and material cultures of Jews of the ancient Mediterranean, Arabia and Mesopotamia. She earned an A.B. in Classics at Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown University and has conducted field research in Greece, the Middle East and North Africa with grants, fellowships and residencies from National Endowment for the Humanities, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Getty Villa. She is the author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa, Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity, which won a 2020 Schnitzer Book Award, and co-editor of With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal: Essays on Relationships in the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Saul M. Olyan. The Daily Beast, Atlas Obscura, NPR, and The Guardian have all featured her work and her current book project considers Jewish history through the senses.  Artwork by Layal Suliaman Music by Nate Sander

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Micah Sander and Carter Greene interview Brooklyn College’s history professors to give students insight into their specialties, how they got where they are, and their personal interests. 

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  • Creator
    Micah Sander & Carter Greene
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    15
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    Explicit
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