Peter Ekman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and at the Berggruen Institute. This interview is based on his new book, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt […]
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The Author’s Corner with Christopher E. Hendricks
Christopher E. Hendricks is Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus. This interview is based on his new book, The Colonial Towns of Piedmont North Carolina (University of Tennessee Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write The […]
The Author’s Corner with Lindsey Bestebreurtje
Lindsey Bestebreurtje is a Curatorial Assistant with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This interview is based on her new book, Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil […]
The Author’s Corner with Brett Bannor
Brett Bannor is the manager of Animal Collections at the Atlanta History Center. This interview is based on his new book, American Sheep: A Cultural History (University of Georgia Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write American Sheep? BB: […]
The Author’s Corner with Richard E. Ocejo
Richard E. Ocejo is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. This interview is based on his new book, Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City (Princeton […]
The Author’s Corner with Zachary Brodt
Zachary Brodt is the University Archivist and Records Manager for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. This interview is based on his new book, From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition (University of […]
The Author’s Corner with Joseph Giacomelli
Joseph Giacomelli is Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Duke Kunshan University. This interview is based on his new book, Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write […]