ORIGINS | Origins Podcasts

Re-Mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later (February 2012: David Stebenne)

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security and Gene Banks (January 2012: Nurcan Atalan-Helicke)

Down and Out (Again): America's Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment (December 2011: Daniel Amsterdam)

Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America (November 2011: William R. Childs)

Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping (October 2011: Donald A. Hempson, III )

The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drugs Trafficking (September 2011: Steven Hyland, Jr. )

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s 'Crazy' Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal (August 2011: James C. Helicke)

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations (July 2011: Ryan Irwin)

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan (June 2011: Craig D. Nelson)

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900 (May 2011: Douglas Little )

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style (April 2011: Marc Horger)

Currency Wars, Or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money (March 2011: Steven Bryan)

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti (February 2011: Leslie Alexander)

Where Have You Gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren't 'Alienated' Anymore (January 2011: David Steigerwald)

South America's 'Sleeping Giant' Wakes: Brazil's 2010 Election (December 2010: Sarah Brooks)

The Summer of '10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy (November 2010: Michael J. Wishnie)

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege? (October 2010: M.M. Silver)

The Kids Aren't Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Debt (September 2010: Lawrence Bowdish)

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women's Struggles in Zimbabwe (August 2010: Brandy S. Thomas)

The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa (July 2010: Russell Field)

Updating 'No Child Left Behind': Change, or More of the Same? (June 2010: John Spencer)

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again (May 2010: Anne Sealey)

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis (April 2010: Nicholas Breyfogle)

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis (March 2010: Chris Otter)

Charles Darwin's American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts (February 2010: Steven Conn)

Child Kidnapping in America (January 2010: Paula Fass)

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe (December 2009: Theodora Dragostinova)

Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population (November 2009: Mytheli Sreenivas)

From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine (October 2009: Peter R. Mansoor)

The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan (September 2009: Scott Levi)

Becoming 'European': The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics (August 2009: Donald A. Hempson)

Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order (July 2009: Sebastien Peyrouse)

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia (June 2009: Andrew J. Carlson)

Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America (May 2009: Kevin Boyle)

The Real Marriage Revolution (April 2009: Stephanie Coontz)

Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future (March 2009: Edin Hajdarpasic and Emil Kerenji)

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict (February 2009: Ahmad A. Sikainga)

With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare (January 2009: Patricia Weitsman )

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age (December 2008: Mitchell Lerner)

Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia (November 2008: Stephen F. Jones )

Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008) (October 2008: Bruce Kuklick )

A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters (September 2008: Mansel Blackford)

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present (August 2008: Alfred Senn)

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist' (July 2008: David Watt)

Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'? (June 2008: Christopher A. Reed)

(Fore)Closing on the American Dream (May 2008: Lawrence Bowdish)

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya (April 2008: Claire Robertson)

After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections (March 2008: Marlene Laruelle)

The Second Amendment Goes to Court (February 2008: Saul Cornell)

The Politics of International Adoption (January 2008: Peter Conn)

Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies (December 2007: John Guilmartin)

Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World (November 2007: Stephen Dale)

Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America (October 2007: Justin Lance)