Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 448
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: < 100
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
Page updated: Oct 28, 2026 · How we check this data
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
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caleb@newbooksnetwork.com
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Host
Christina Gessler - Academic writing coach and editor who produces and hosts the Academic Life podcast.
Miranda Melcher - Researcher whose work focuses on post-conflict military integration, treaty negotiation, and treaty implementation in civil-war contexts, including the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
Ed Amon - Writer, stand-up comedian, and University of Auckland PhD candidate with a Master of Indigenous Studies. His interests include Indigenous studies, politics, history, and cricket.
Jane Hwang Degenhardt - Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of books on early modern drama and religious conversion, and co-editor of English Literary Renaissance.
Kelsey Brosnan - Art historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art and author of a book on still-life painter Anne Vallayer-Coster.
Booking Intelligence
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Recent Guest Discussions
Irene I. Vega - Immigration Enforcement, Race, Morality, Bureaucratic Legitimacy, And The Professional Culture Of Border Patrol And ICE Agents.
Valena Beety - Wrongful Convictions, Prosecutorial Overreach, Flawed Forensic Science, Criminalization Of Pregnancy And Motherhood, And Anti-lgbtq+ Legislation.
Asher Emanuel - New Zealand’s Criminal Justice System, Legal Aid, Imprisonment, Poverty, Rehabilitation, And The Experiences Of People Navigating The Courts And Welfare System.
Meredith Gamer - Eighteenth-century Executions, State Violence, Art And Visual Culture, Public Punishment, And Representations Of Crime.
Matthew Ritger - Early Modern Prisons And Workhouses, Bridewell, Humanist Reform, Forced Labor, Education, Punishment, And The Cultural History Of Incarceration.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Carceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)
October 26, 2026
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread belief that prisons can be improved in a socially progressive way. Even today, 'model prisons' are being built that seek to fix the shortcomings and failures of their predecessors, as if past failures were due to a lack of imagination, determination, or resources.The aim of creating model prisons is not new: it dates back to the early nineteenth...
Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America with Marie Gottschalk (Princeton UP, 2026)
October 11, 2026
The United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corporate crime wave has gone unprosecuted and unpunished, with those in the C-suites largely escaping accountability. Meanwhile, the country has doubled down on pursuing people accused of street and drug crimes and immigration offenses. Corporate impunity, the financialization of the economy, militarized policing, the burgeoning carceral state, and the forever...
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice with Federica Coppola (Cambridge UP, 2026)
October 03, 2026
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice (Cambridge UP, 2026) highlights the concept of 'belonging' as an unprecedented lens for critically interrogating the legitimacy of incarceration across penal theory, sentencing practice, and human rights frameworks. The chapters chart pathways for bridging the gap between the normative idea of punishment and the stark realities of prison life. The final chapter, written with scholars currently and ...
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New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and Reform typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Scholars, legal experts, historians, researchers, and justice practitioners with a recently published book or substantial original research on criminal justice, policing, incarceration, punishment, migration enforcement, or reform. Common among recent guests: Published a recent book with an academic or respected independent press; Hold a university faculty, research, legal, or policy role; Conduct original fieldwork, archival research, or case-based analysis. Recent guests include Irene I. Vega, Valena Beety, and Asher Emanuel.
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