The Jangle Podcast
Conversations about History
Listen below to episodes of the Department of History’s The Jangle. We sit down with historians to learn how our interviewees arrived at their careers, what they are researching, and to dig into their thoughts on how history has led us to where we are today.
Season 1, Episode 1
Beau Gaitors
We sat down (on Zoom) with Professor Beau Gaitors, a new Assistant Professor of Latin American History, to learn how he became a historian, what research was like at the archives in Veracruz, Mexico, and what he looks forward to teaching hear at the University of Tennessee.
Season 1, Episode 2
Monica Black
On Episode 2 of The Jangle, we sit down with Professor Monica Black for a conversation on her accidental path to becoming a historian, the impact of study abroad, living and researching in one of the world’s great cities, and her new book, A Demon Haunted Land.
Season 1, Episode 3
Brandon Winford
We start the new semester off with a new episode of The Jangle. Professor Brandon Winford spoke to us about growing up in North Carolina, his path to becoming a historian, his work on black banking and the Civil Rights movement.
Season 1, Episode 4
Charles Sanft
For Episode 4, The Jangle interviewed Charles Sanft, Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese History here in the Department. We talk about Dr. Sanft’s journey to becoming a historian, from his college days in Minnesota all the way up to his recent award winning book, Literate Community in Early Imperial China. We enjoyed the conversation, and hope that you will too. The Jangle is now available on Spotify. If that’s where you enjoy your podcasts, please subscribe!
Season 2, Episode 1
Sara Ritchey
To kick off Season 2 of The Jangle, we look back to a conversation we had with professor Sara Ritchey as we trace her journey to becoming an historian. Ritchey’s research interrogates premodern conceptual categories such as nature, the body, and most recently, periodization and time. In her most recent book, Acts of Care: Regulating Women in Late Medieval Health (Cornell, 2021), Ritchey digs into women’s health in the Middle Ages.
Season 2, Episode 2
Shellen Wu
On the second episode of The Jangle Season 2, we chat with Professor Shellen Wu on her path to becoming an historian of modern China. We also discuss her new course offering for the Spring semester on the history and experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
“Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.”
—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
