Stuart Kelter interviews Sarah Haavind, a Senior Research Project Manager -- and specialist in asynchronous learning -- at Concord Consortium, a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts, and Emeryville, California. From the earliest days of the Internet, Sarah has devoted her career to the development of creative and engaging online curricula for both student learning and teacher training. She has taught at every grade level from elementary to graduate school and has led teacher professional development in multiple STEM subjects. She has designed and participated in virtual schools and virtual professional development in ways that have helped define the field. She is a co-author of the book Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators, published in the year 2000, based on the Concord Consortium’s early work with virtual teaching and learning.
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Stuart Kelter interviews Susannah Sirkin, the director of policy and a senior advisor at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), where she has worked since 1987. From 1992 to 2001 she served as a member of the Coordination Committee of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was the co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace. She has organized health and human rights investigations in dozens of countries, documenting genocide and systematic rape in Darfur, Sudan; exhumations of mass graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; attacks on health care facilities in Syria, Yemen, and other war zones; and Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s. In 2019 and again in 2020, she addressed the U.N. Security Council about the deliberate targeting of hospitals in Syria.
Stuart Kelter interviews Sushma Subramanian, a freelance journalist and associate professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Her writing on science and health has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and Discover. She has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and was the winner of a Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award. She is the author of the recently published book, How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch, which is the subject of today’s interview.
Stuart Kelter interviews Dean Buonomano, a neuroscientist at UCLA since 1998, and a leading researcher of the neuroscience of time. His first book, Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Buonomano is the rare combination of cutting edge researcher and talented and engaging communicator of science to the general public. He has been interviewed about his research on timing and neural computation for Newsweek, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, The New Yorker and on NPR’s Fresh Air. His most recent book, Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time was published in 2017 and is the subject of today’s interview.
Stuart Kelter interviews Benjamin Jerry Cohen, a specialist in international political economy at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1991 to 2021. He previously taught at Princeton and Tufts University. His publications have addressed issues of international monetary relations, U.S. foreign economic policy, currency integration, sovereign debt, theories of economic imperialism, and the history of the discipline of international political economy. He is the author of sixteen books. His newest book, Currency Statecraft: Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019.
Stuart Kelter interviews Meg Weston, a photographer and poet whose frequent subject is volcanoes. Based in Maine, she has traveled around the world pursuing her desire, as she puts it, to witness the power and beauty of the earth in its raw processes of creation and transformation. Her poetry and photography express her connection to the earth in all its sensual, emotional, and spiritual power. Meg’s images can be seen on her website www.volcanoes.com. In 2020, she and Kathrin Seitz cofounded ThePoetsCorner.org, an online forum to bring together poets worldwide, to “bring community to the often solitary yet transformational experience of writing poetry and prose.”
Stuart Kelter interviews Robert Foster, a specialist in the international development of renewable energy, who has worked in over 40 countries for the past 35 years, implementing thousands of renewable energy projects with solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and biomass technologies. Robert has been a member of the American Solar Energy Society since 1990 and its current chairman of its board of directors. For 25 years Robert was the International Manager for the Southwest Region Solar Experiment Station at New Mexico State University and still teaches NMSU renewable energy courses. Robert grew up on the Mexican border in El Paso where he still lives and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. His work both in the Peace Corps and subsequently, has included projects in Mexico, Central America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
Stuart Kelter interviews Anita Diamant, a novelist, journalist, essayist, and author of five guidebooks to contemporary Jewish life on such topics as weddings, parenting, and mourning practices. As a journalist, her feature stories and columns in the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal included profiles of prominent people, stories about medical ethics, and first-person essays about everything from politics to popular culture, from pet ownership to food. Anita’s best-known book, The Red Tent, published in 1997, is a novel inspired by the brief yet provocative story about Jacob’s only daughter, Dina, from the book of Genesis. The book became a word-of-mouth and New York Times bestseller thanks to reader recommendations, book groups, and support from independent bookstores, has been published in more than 25 countries, and was adapted as a two-part, four-hour miniseries by Lifetime TV. Her latest book, published just this year, is Period. End of Sentence: The New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice, which is the topic of today’s interview.
Stuart Kelter interviews Iñigo García-Bryce, Professor of History at New Mexico State University since 1999, whose research focuses on Latin America, especially Peru, where he grew up. His books include Crafting the Republic: Lima’s Artisans and Nation-Building in Peru, 1821-1879 published in 2004 and Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in Twentieth Century Peru and Latin America, published in 2018. He was the Director of NMSU’s Center for Latin American and Border Studies since 2011-2016.
Stuart Kelter interviews Steven Sloman, a professor in the department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University, who studies how our habits of thought influence the way we see the world, how we make decisions, how we process conversations, and how we respond to conflict. His current research focuses on collective cognition, or how we think as a community, explored in his book co-authored with Phil Fernbach, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone, published in 2017, which is the topic of today’s interview.
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