IHS on 15 Minute History
The 15 Minute History podcast is devoted to short, accessible discussions of important topics in World History and US History. Co-coordinated by NEP and Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium of the area studies centers in the College of Liberal Arts, the discussions are conducted by the award winning faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. Listen to episodes featuring interviews with IHS Internal Faculty Fellows, Visiting Research Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Speakers, at the links below.
Visiting Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Speakers on 15 Minute History
- Islam’s Enigmatic Origins
Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago - Urban Slavery in the Antebellum United States
Leslie M. Harris (Fellow, 2013-2014) and Daina Ramey Berry (Fellow, 2012-2013) - Rethinking the Agricultural “Revolution”
Rachel Laudan, University of Texas at Austin (IHS Affiliate, 2016-2017) - The Paris Commune
John Merriman, Yale University - Fishmeal—The Superfood That Never Was
Kristin Wintersteen, University of Houston (IHS Fellow, 2014-2015) - Seven Skeletons
Lydia Pyne, University of Texas at Austin (IHS Affiliate, 2013-present)
Internal Faculty Fellows on 15 Minute History
- The Senses of Slavery
Daina Ramey Berry | Fellow, 2012-2013 - Simón Bolívar
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra | Fellow, 2012-2013 - Simone de Beauvoir and ‘The Second Sex’
Judith Coffin | Fellow, 2015-2016 - Developing the Amazon
Seth Garfield | Fellow, 2010-2011, and Director 2013-2017 - The Harlem Renaissance
Frank Guridy | Fellow, 2008-2009 - The First Illegal Aliens?
Madeline Y. Hsu | Fellow, 2016-2017 - Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe
Brian P. Levack | Program Coordinator, 2016-2016 - Segregating Pop Music
Karl Hagstrom Miller | Fellow, 2012-2013 - The Ottoman Balkans
Mary Neuburger | Fellow, 2016-2017 - The Royal Proclamation of 1763
Robert Olwell | Fellow, 2008-2009 - Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an
Denise A. Spellberg | Fellow, 2012-2013 - The Precolumbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica
Ann Twinam | Fellow, 2010-2011 - The American Revolution in Global Context, Part I and Part II
James M. Vaughn | Fellow, 2014-2015
