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Thomas Aiello
Professor of History and Africana Studies and Animal Studies at Valdosta State University
Valdosta State University
Episode: Thomas Aiello, "Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
Saundra Weddle
Professor of Architecture at Drury University
Drury University
Episode: Saundra Weddle, "The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice" (Penn State UP, 2026)
Betty Boyd Caroli
Historian and author of A Slumless America
Oxford University Press
Episode: Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Terry Williams
Ethnographer at the New School for Social Research and author of Life Underground
Columbia University Press
Episode: Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Professor Simon Devereaux
Historian specializing in capital punishment
Cambridge University Press
Episode: Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Terrence Keel
Award-winning scholar, founding director of the Biocritical Studies Lab, and a professor of human biology, society, and African American studies at UCLA.
UCLA
Episode: Terence Keel, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Stephen Legg
Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Episode: Stephen Legg, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
Malcolm Harris
Freelance writer living in DC and author of 'Kids These Days' and 'Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit'
Little, Brown
Episode: Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Sara Swenson
Assistant Professor, Religion, and Affiliate Faculty in Asian Societies, Culture and Languages
Dartmouth College
Episode: Sara Ann Swenson, "Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host and scholar of Urban Studies, associated with the New Books Network and various academic projects.

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Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Q: Did the Murder Act achieve its intended goals?
Yes and no. The genius of the Murder Act is that it provides a particular category of bodies that can be reliably provided to the College of Surgeons.
Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Q: What is the significance of the Murder Act?
The central purpose of the Murder Act was to end the problem of public riots at executions at Tyburn in London.
Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Q: What are some of the other factors that drove officials in England to make the changes from the restoration period onwards?
One of the things that we might invoke is what many people have called the civilizing process following Norbert Elias.
Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write the book?
I've been working on the history of capital punishment for many years now, especially capital punishment in London in the long 18th century.
Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Q: What happened to all of this? What happened to Black Power Urbanism?
Black Power Urbanism experienced partial success and dismantling due to state repression, economic changes, and societal shifts, but its ideas have been absorbed and recontextualized in ongoing movements.

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