We made up and interviewed Professor SenGupta. It was wonderful.

Professor Gunja SenGupta's current interests lie in 19th-century U.S.history  as well as slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean; sectional conflict; African American and women's history. She earned her PhD from Tulane University. She is the author of For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas,  From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918, and her third, co-authored, book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire, was just published by the University of California Press in 2023. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including the American Historical Review, Journal of African American History, Civil War History, Kansas History,  Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Transition Magazine. 

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You know what, not only did Carter do nothing for this episode, his presence was harmful. A house divided cannot stand and he refuses to reach across the aisle.  He's also being like really annoying when it comes to tomatoes. Refuses to eat them. Like just grow up already.

Professor Michael Rawson is a historian of environmental, urban, and cultural history and is particularly interested in how ideas about nature have shaped environmental change. He studied with William Cronon while earning his PhD at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Brooklyn College in 2007, he taught at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. Rawson is the author of Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, which was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History, and The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future. He is also a member of the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently working on a large-scale, narrative history of Boston.

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Carter had a great interview with Professor Banerjee. Only Carter.

Professor Swapna Banerjee focuses on women, servants, children, fathers, masculinity, and family history. She received her BA from Presidency University, her MA from University of Calcutta, and her PhD from Temple University. She is the author of Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India, Men, Women and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal, and co-editor of Mapping Women's History. Supported by the Australian Research Council, she is currently working on a joint project that historicizes the traveling Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was the Endowed Chair in Women's and Gender Studies from 2016-2018 and has been selected as a Distinguished Scholar for the Advanced Research Collective at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Music by Nate Sander