Office Hours

Episodes

1. 9

   The Role of Poetry

   This week on Office Hours, we sat down with poet and English Professor Russell Price, whose work focuses on the exploration of identity through writing. We discussed carving an identity through art, the Chicago poetry scene, and the political power of poetry.

   Apr 6, 2017

   8m
2. 8

   The Women's Marches

   This week, we sat down with Performance Studies professor Marcela Fuentes, whose research examines the use of embodied performance as a tool for activism, both online and offline. In our post-inauguration interview, we discussed Women’s Marches around the world, the role of social media in…

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   Feb 3, 2017

   7m
3. 7

   Debriefing the 2016 Election

   This week, we sat down with Prof. Al Tillery, an associate chair of the Political Science Department who specializes in American politics, including how it interacts with media and public opinion. Prof. Tillery broke down the 2016 presidential election for us, explaining how demographics, the…

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   Dec 7, 2016

   11m
4. 6

   The Chicago Cubs, World Series Champions

   Following the Chicago Cubs’ historic World Series win on Wednesday, November 2, we sat down with English professor and lifelong Cubs fan Bill Savage. Savage teaches a class called Baseball in American Narrative and wrote a Cubs column for ESPN called “The View from Section 416.” In our Tuesday...

   Nov 14, 2016

   7m
5. 5

   Donald Trump

   Office Hours features interviews with Northwestern professors about current events. This week, we revisited an interview conducted in May with Dan McAdams, a psychology professor who wrote The Atlantic's June cover story, "The Mind of Donald Trump." McAdams, who also analyzed former president...

   Oct 30, 2016

   9m
6. 4

   Partisan conflict

   This week, we sat down with Weinberg Prof. Laurel Harbridge Yong, a political science professor who specializes in the lack of bipartisan agreement in American politics. Prof. Harbridge Yong discussed the history of partisan conflict and walked us through where it comes from, as well as how it...

   Oct 16, 2016

   8m
7. 3

   The Supreme Court and Oyez.org

   This week, we sat down with Jerry Goldman, the retired former Northwestern professor who founded Oyez.org, an online archive of U.S. Supreme Court audio. In light of the 2016 Supreme Court session opening Monday, we talked to Goldman about the role of the court, his inspirations for Oyez and more.

   Oct 3, 2016

   5m
8. 2

   The Panama Papers

   This week, we sat down with Weinberg Profs. Jeffrey Winters and Jordan Gans-Morse to discuss the “Panama Papers,” or the 11.5 million documents detailing financial and client information about offshore companies administered by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The documents, leaked to...

   Sep 29, 2016

   11m
9. 1

   Buckley Crist and the Unibomber

   Welcome to the first edition of Office Hours, a Daily Northwestern podcast in which co-hosts Madeline Fox and Jeremy Margolis sit down with Northwestern professors to discuss current and historical events. For our first episode, we sat down with McCormick Prof. Buckley Crist, who in 1978 received...

   Sep 29, 2016

   10m