AUDIO LIBRARY

The Role of Fans in Popular Culture
Constance Penley – Professor in the Department of Film Studies and teaches feminist film theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara
C. Lee Harrington – Professor in the Department of Sociology, Gerentology and Anthropology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Michael DeAngelis – Professor in the School for New Learning at DePaul University in Chicago

Video Games and Gender
Henry Jenkins: Professor of Literature and Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
Gerard Jones: Author of Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy Games, Superheroes, and Make Believe Violence
Jeanne Funk: Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo in Ohio
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Current Issues in Europe
Michael Loriaux – Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
Jeffrey Anderson – Director of Studies at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, D.C.

Social Panic
Judith Levine – journalist and author based in Brooklyn
Carole Vance – director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights in the School of Public Health at Columbia University
Susan Bandes – editor of “The Passions of Law,” a collection of essays examining the relationship between emotions and the law.

Ingredients of Democracy
Jose Cheibub – an editor of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990, and professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University
Les Campbell – Director of the Programs in the Middle East and North Africa at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Edward Gibson – author of Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective, and professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

Science and Religion
Robert Pollack – director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion, and professor in the department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University in New York
David Lindberg – Professor Emeritus in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Irons – Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

Film and Popular Music
Pam Robertson Wojeck - Co-editor of Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, teaches in the department of Film Television and Theater at Notre Dame University, in South Bend, Indiana
Anahid Kassabian - Author of Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music, teaches in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York
Jeff Smith - Author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music, teaches in the Film and Media Studies Department at Washington University, in St Louis, Missouri

Popular Culture and Democracy
Christopher Clausen - Professor the English department at Penn State University and author of Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America
Paul Apostolidis - Professor in the department of politics at Whitman College and the author of Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio
Jim Miller - Professor at the New School University in New York and the author of Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977

Supreme Court Justice Byron White
David Strauss - Professor in the Law School at the University of Chicago
Professor Merrill - Professor in Northwestern University's School of Law
Dennis Hutchinson - Senior lecturer in the Law School at the University of Chicago and author of The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White: A Portrait of Justice Byron White

Marshall McLuhan Revisited
Steve Jones - Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Liss Jeffrey - Adjunct faculty member in the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Electronic Commons Project
Paul Levinson - Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City
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"Strange Stars"
Jeremy Drake - Professor in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Center at Harvard University
Angela Olinto - Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago
Norman Glendenning - Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Drag
Patrick Johnson – Professor in the Performance Studies Department at Northwestern University
Ester Newton – Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York in Purchase, New York
Judith Halberstam – Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego

Home and the Workplace Maggie Jackson – Author of What’s Happening to Home: Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age Roberta Feldman – Director of the City Design Center and Professor in the School of
Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago Christena Nippert-Eng – Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Commodifying the Body
Jeremy Sugarman – founding director of the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Duke University
Susan Squier – the Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Penn State University
Tod Chambers – Professor in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Program at Northwestern University in Chicago

U.S. Power and the Middle East
Robert Pape – Director of the program on International Security Policy and professor Political Science at the University of Chicago
Ali Abunimah – Vice-President of the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago based non-profit advocacy group
James Ray – Professor of in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville

The Theory of Slave Power
Paul Finkleman – Professor in the College of Law at Tulsa University
Robin Einhorn – Professor in the History Department at the University of California at Berkeley
Leonard Richards – Professor of history at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst

Film Forum: Billy Wilder
Virgina Wright Wexman – Professor of film theory in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Hank Sartin – Film Critic for the Chicago Free Press and a lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Chicago
Edward Sikov – Visiting Scholar at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania

The Utility and Persistence of Paper
Edward Tenner – Visiting scholar and researcher in the department of English at Princeton University
Ben Bronson – Curator of Asian Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History
David Levy – Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington

Art and Science
Pamela Smith – Professor in the Department of History at Ponoma College in Claremont, California
Gail Wight – Lecturer in the Department of Art at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Heinrich Jaeger – Professor of Physics and director of the Materials Research Center at the University of Chicago

Law and Literalism
Tom Grey – Professor at the Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California
John McGinnis – Professor at the Cardozo School of Law, in New York City, and currently a visiting Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Law
David Strauss – Professor in the Law School at the University of Chicago

The Risks of Reinterpreting Art
Glenn Mendler – Joseph Campbell chair of Mythology at Lucas College, and author of Chewbacca's Purse: Androgyny and Sexual Dissonance in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Michael Barrett – editor of the Cambridge Review of Literature, Massachusetts' oldest bound periodical
Diane Peabody-Lopez – Art Historian at the University of Lawsonomy, and author of Lizards and Lute Players: Carravaggio Revisisted