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About Lilly Goren
Lilly J. Goren
is professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lilly:
Political Science
February 25, 2021
Madam President?
Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House
Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman, both scholars of gender and politics as well as scholars of the American Presidency, have assembled a wide array of essays[*] to revisit the …
Political Science
February 18, 2021
Violence Against Women in Politics
Mona Lena Krook
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Mona Lena Krook examines the unique phenomena of violence against women in politics, which is distinct from the broader concern and issue of violence against women in general. Krook pulls …
Postscript
February 15, 2021
Postscript
Trump, Trumpism, and the Future of the GOP
Lilly J. Goren and Susan Liebell
Hosted by Lilly Goren
As the impeachment trial ends, Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell explore the future of the GOP with two media-savvy political scientists. Dr. Jonathan Bernstein is familiar to many as the …
Political Science
February 11, 2021
The Economic Other
Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky have written an incredibly timely and fascinating study of our understanding of income inequality in the United States, and how this understanding contributes to the …
Political Science
February 4, 2021
Homer's Hero
Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey
Michelle M. Kundmueller
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Michelle Kundmueller, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University, presents a thoughtful analysis of both Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in her analysis of how we might want to …
Political Science
January 28, 2021
Electoral Capitalism
The Party System in New York's Gilded Age
Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Jeff Broxmeyer has written a fascinating and insightful book about the party system in New York during the Gilded Age, but this is really only the foundation of the analysis …
Political Science
January 21, 2021
Amateur Hour
Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership
Lara M. Brown
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political scientist Lara Brown’s new book, Amateur Hour, is a complex and important multi-method study of the presidency, starting from the original conception of the office at the constitutional convention …
Political Science
January 14, 2021
Transforming Prejudice
Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights
Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Melissa Michelson and Brian Harrison, co-authors of the book Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017), which focused on how people …
Political Science
January 7, 2021
International Relations and the Problem of Time
Andrew R. Hom
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Andrew Hom’s new book examines what he calls the “problem of time” in context of international relations and international relations theory. The subject of time is a growing field of …
Political Science
December 31, 2020
Queer Alliances
How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation
Erin Mayo-Adam
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only the policies that political movements advocate for, and those that are achieved, but the research pays …
Political Science
December 24, 2020
After Trump
Reconstructing the Presidency
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, two attorneys who have worked, respectively, in the Barack Obama and the George W. Bush Administrations, have written a blueprint of considerations to reform and …
Political Science
December 21, 2020
New Books in Political Science 2020 Round Up
Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell
Hosted by Lilly Goren
The co-hosts of New Books in Political Science, Dr. Lilly J. Goren (Carroll University) and Dr. Susan Liebell (Saint Joseph’s University) looked back at the year. We want YOUR insights …
Political Science
December 17, 2020
The Drama of Celebrity
Sharon Marcus
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Sharon Marcus’s new book, The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton UP, 2020), sets out to help us understand celebrity culture and how it has shifted and evolved since its contemporary inception …
Political Science
December 10, 2020
Suffrage at 100
Women in American Politics since 1920
Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) is a wonderful and sweeping exploration of the way that women and their access to the ballot …
Political Science
December 3, 2020
The Inclusion Calculation
Why Men Appropriate Womens' Representation
Melody Ellis Valdini
Hosted by Lilly Goren
The thematic research question in The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women’s Representation (Oxford UP, 2019) is whether there is a distinction between women’s power itself and the strategic value of having …
Political Science
November 5, 2020
From Slave Cabins to the White House
Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
Koritha Williams
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Koritha Mitchell, Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, has written a complex, interdisciplinary, and important analysis focusing on black women as the lens to explore the intersection …
American Studies
October 15, 2020
Learning from Loss
The Democrats, 2016-2020
Seth Masket
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Seth Masket’s new book, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020 (Cambridge UP, 2020) takes the outcome of the 2016 presidential race and Donald Trump’s unexpected winning of the presidency as …
African American Studies
October 8, 2020
Mobilized by Injustice
Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race
Hannah L. Walker
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Hannah Walker’s new book, Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race (Oxford UP, 2020), brings together the political science and criminal justice disciplines in exploring how individuals …
American Studies
October 1, 2020
That Is Not Who We Are!
Populism and Peoplehood
Rogers M. Smith
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Rogers M. Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, has written a new book on the connection between our understanding of peoplehood …
African Studies
September 24, 2020
Histories of Dirt
Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
Stephanie Newell
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, came to this project, which explores the concept of “dirt” and how this idea is used and applied to people and spaces …
African American Studies
September 10, 2020
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968
Boris Heersink and Jeffery A. Jenkins
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Prior to the 1960s, Democrats were seen as having a lock on the South in national and local electoral politics, while Republicans had strengths in other parts of the country …
American Studies
September 3, 2020
America's Inequality Trap
Nathan J. Kelly
Hosted by Lilly Goren
America's Inequality Trap (University of Chicago Press, 2020) focuses on the relationship between economic inequality and American politics. Nathan J. Kelly, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee …
American Studies
August 27, 2020
Burning Down the House
Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
Julian E. Zelizer
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Nearly everyone in the United States is aware of the fiery rhetoric and divisive political stratagems of Donald Trump and the contemporary Republican party. What many people forget, however, is …
Intellectual History
August 20, 2020
Contesting Conformity
Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging
Jennie C. Ikuta
Hosted by Lilly Goren
In her new book, Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging (Oxford University Press, 2020), political theorist Jennie C. Ikuta traces the idea of nonconformity and how this …
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