By Zoya Brumberg Graduate students often wonder how their work fits into their lives outside the university. We publish and present papers with the hope that they contribute significantly to our fields. But for many scholars, public engagement in the form of podcasts, blog posts, youtube channels, and creative writing have helped us feel that […]
Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast
How often do you stop and wonder how paper money and checking accounts became a part of our daily life? Can you pinpoint the moment in time when investing in the stock market became an activity available to ordinary citizens? How and why did the United States government become involved in funding railroads, paved roads, […]
American Pulse Project
By Zoya Brumberg How will the moment of time in which you live be remembered? Will Occupy Wall Street or the anti-Trump movement be written into history as the 1968 of the 21st century? Are our lives a turning point in the political, economic, or social conditions of the modern world? For Rutgers University History […]
Front Porch Gatherings
By Zoya Brumberg East Austin has only recently become home to craft cocktail bars, yoga studios, high-end vintage clothing stores, art house movie theaters, and food trucks lauded by the New York Times dining section. For someone new to Austin, unfamiliar with its complex history, it is difficult to imagine that these neighborhoods were intentionally […]
The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Ajay Singh Chaudhary taught the first course of what would become the country-wide nonprofit interdisciplinary teaching and research institute, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York City in 2012. This single course about Plato and Aristotle, initiated by a recent Columbia University Comparative Literature PhD, has grown into a national organization with active […]