Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work she explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism. Dr. Gaskins’ work explores how to generate art using algorithms in different ways, especially through coding. She also teaches, writes, "fabs" or makes, and does other things. She has taught multimedia, computational media, visual art, and even Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles with high school students who majored in the arts. She earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She received a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech in 2014. She has taught at the secondary and post-secondary levels in the Boston Public Schools and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Currently, Dr. Gaskins is the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University. She will publish her first full-length book through The MIT Press.
Marcial Morales Garcia on ICE Detention and Hunger Strike at Bergen County (NJ) Jail
Marcial Morales Garcia recently won his release from ICE detention through a hunger strike undertaken in desperation for untreated medical conditions and is now speaking out about the ongoing hunger strike now in its fourth week at the jail.
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Desiree Desierto on Monopoly Rents, Trade and Sunken Treasure
Desiree Desierto is an affiliate faculty at George Mason University. She was a postdoctoral associate at the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham. Details about her research can be found at https://desireedesierto.com/.
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Carola Frydman On the Economic Impact of the 1918 Influenza
Carola Frydman is a Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management. Professor Frydman's research focuses on American business history. Recent research projects examine the evolution of financial markets during the early twentieth century, with special emphasis on the role of financial intermediaries for firm growth, and on financial crises. She has also studied the long-run trends in executive compensation, the market for managers, and corporate governance. Her work has been published at journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Economic History, and featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The Economist. She is on the Editorial Board of Explorations in Economic History, the Journal of Economic History, and of the Review Studies in Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Kellogg, Professor Frydman was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management (2006-2011) and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University (2011-2016). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Universidad de San Andres, Argentina, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Jesse Bruhn on Charter Schools
Jesse Bruhn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University and an affiliate of the Annenberg Institute. Prior to joining the economics department at Brown, he spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. from Boston University. Jesse is a labor economist who studies the economics of education (teacher labor markets, educator effectiveness, school choice) and the economics of crime (street gangs). Prior to his career as an economist, Jesse spent four years on active duty in the United States Army and one year as a Mathematics Educator in the Springfield, MA, public school system.
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Kent Ford on the Portland Protests and the Black Panther Party
Kent Ford is a co-founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party in Oregon in 1969.
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Daniel Gallardo Albarrán on Global Economic Inequality
Daniel Gallardo Albarrán completed his Ph. D. at the University of Groningen in 2018 with a thesis entitled Health, well-being and inequality over the long term. He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Rural and Environmental History Group at Wageningen University. His research focuses on the determinants of living standards over the long term and the impact of public health measures on health outcomes.
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Bruno Caprettini on Patriotism, The New Deal and the Rage Against the Machines
Bruno Caprettini is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) in 2015. In August 2017 he won a 4-years grant offered by the Swiss National Foundation: the Ambizione grant. His research interests include development economics and economic history. His work appeared on the American Economic Review.
Horse-powered threshing machine
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Ernest Leif Boyd and Fiori Berhane on the 2020 Election
Ernest is a film editor, born and raised in New York City. He started out his career working in reality television for NYT Television where he was an instrumental part of Local 700, The Motion Picture Editors Guilds successful union organizing campaign. Fiori Berhane is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Brown University. Berhane's research focuses on refugee's political activism as it pertains to local histories, diaspora and the migration crisis. Broadly, it asks how do refugees make political claims to belonging under conditions of protracted political and social crisis; this research is based on the experiences of third wave Eritrean diaspora in relation to the first wave diaspora in Bologna, Italy.
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Muhammad Muwakil of Freetown Collective on What it Means to be Free
Bob Marley sang ... “when music hits you, you feel no pain”. The Caribbean has a new timeless musical sound, musical medicine, for our generation, coming from Freetown Collective in Trinidad and Tobago which resonates with the greats that came before. In this episode, we speak to Muhammad Muwakil, lead singer of Freetown Collective. The motto of Freetown Collective is ‘till everywhere is free’ and Muhammad is not afraid to tell the story of our times and encourage imagination, hope, love and justice through the poetry of music in his own very unique and authentic way. Freetown Collective launched its first studio album Born in Darkness to critical acclaim in 2018. Their beautiful second studio album YAGO was released in 2020. He also starred in the 2013 film God Loves the Fighter. For the show, Muhammad brings his guitar along to grace us with two beautiful songs to start and end the show called Amen and Osun. Enjoy!
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