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Ohio Humans
by Ohio Humanities
A podcast that shares stories to spark conversations and inspire ideas.
Episodes
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Human Powered: Odyssey Beyond Bars
This week, we’re thrilled to share a special first look at the second season of Human Powered, a podcast from our friends at Wisconsin Humanities! This episode visits with some of the key players behind the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s first credit-bearing course inside any state prison…
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Human Powered: The Power of Indigenous Knowledge
This week, we’re thrilled to share “The Power of Indigenous Knowledge,” an episode from the first season of Human Powered, a podcast from our friends at Wisconsin Humanities. This episode starts with a meal around a fire, in a place where people have been cooking and eating for more than 5,000...
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We Are Here Episode 6: The Lenape Come Home to Pennsylvania
We Are Here, a collaboration between our neighbors at PA Humanities and Keystone Edge, is a podcast about Pennsylvanians making their mark. This week, we’re thrilled to share the series’ sixth episode, “The Lenape Come Home to Pennsylvania.” For thousands of years before the arrival of European...
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Amended Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds
Amended, a podcast from our friends at Humanities New York, asks how we tell the story of the (unfinished) struggle for women’s voting rights. Who gave us the dominant suffrage narrative? And who gets left out? When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, a large number of Native American women...
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Augmented Humanity: Indigenous A.I.
Augmented Humanity, a podcast from our friends at New Mexico Humanities, features modern explorers working at the intersection of technology and the humanities who help us to understand ourselves and the worlds we create in this digital age. They are thinkers, creators, makers, and academics, all...
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Page Count Live: Turning Points in a Writing Career
Page Count, an interview-format podcast presented by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, celebrates authors, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and literary advocates in and from the state of Ohio. Guests range from internationally recognized and...
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County Lines: The Rural-Urban Divide
County Lines is WYSO's series focusing on small towns and rural communities in the greater Dayton area. Funded by a grant from Ohio Humanities, Community Voices producer Renee Wilde travels down the highways and back roads to tell stories of country life that go beyond the stereotypes. This week,...
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More Human with Rebecca Brown Asmo
Inspired by Socrates’s famous dictum that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” More Human, the official podcast of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center at Cuyahoga Community College, features conversations with scholars and students in the humanities. Each episode explores…
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The Landscape of Local Newspapers in Ohio with Tim Feran
This week on Ohio Humans, we're revisiting Rachel Hopkin's 2020 conversation with journalist Tim Feran about the changing landscape of local newspapers in Ohio. This episode is part of the Federation of State Humanities Councils' “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” initiative, which seeks to...
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Social Distances: The Miner’s Canary
Social distance…it means more than just six feet apart. What other kinds of distances did we encounter during 2020 and beyond? With support from Ohio Humanities, each episode of Toledo-based media thinkhub Midstory’s “Social Distances” podcast looks at a different cross section of society that…
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County Lines: Growing the Next Generation
County Lines is WYSO's series focusing on small towns and rural communities in the greater Dayton area. Funded by a grant from Ohio Humanities, Community Voices producer Renee Wilde travels down the highways and back roads to tell stories of country life that go beyond the stereotypes. This week,...
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May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four students and wounding nine on the campus of Kent State University. The impact of the event reverberated nationwide, triggering a dramatic increase in the ongoing student strike against US...
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Invisible Ground: The Andrew Jackson Davison Club Presents
Invisible Ground is a podcast series that explores the history of Southeast Ohio communities by telling the stories of its people, places, and events. In this episode, learn a bit more about Athens, Ohio, and its residents and places: the Berrys, the Davisons, Mount Zion, and the Westside of…
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Amended Episode 1: Myths and Sentiments
Amended, a podcast from our friends at Humanities New York, asks how we tell the story of the (unfinished) struggle for women’s voting rights. Who gave us the dominant suffrage narrative? And who gets left out? In this episode, Laura Free, a historian of women and politics, reflects on the…
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Perfecting Democracy: Why It Matters with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Today, we’re revisiting our 2021 interview with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries for our Perfecting Democracy series about his book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt and how race and racism influence voting in the United States. In this episode, journalist Ron Bryant…
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Introducing: The Ohio Country
Just before Ohio became a state in 1803, the U.S. government passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory. There was cooperation between settlers and the Indigenous people of Ohio in those years before statehood, an exchange of ideas and technology...
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Episode 31: Covid Conversations #9: Musicians and Songwriters – Floco Torres (Akron, Ohio) and Sebastian Arze (Asunción, Paraguay)
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by musicians Floco Torres of Akron and Sebastian Arze of Asunción, Paraguay. Torres is a hip hop artist based in Akron and one half of the duo Free Black!, which he formed in 2018 with producer/drummer HR3. For more information about Floco and his music, visit...
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Episode 31: Covid Conversations #8: Visual Artists – Cat Sheridan (Columbus, Ohio) and Gabriel Amza (Timișoara, Romania)
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by visual artists Cat Sheridan of Columbus and Gabriel Amza of Timișoara, Romania. Sheridan uses many different media in her artistic work, with a special focus on ceramics. She is the director of the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in downtown Columbus. Amza is a...
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Episode 30: Covid Conversations #7: YA Fiction Writers – Natalie Richards (Columbus, Ohio) and Fatima Sharafeddine (Beirut, Lebanon)
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by authors Natalie Richards of Columbus and Fatima Sharafeddine of Beirut, Lebanon. Richards is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books for young adults. Sharafeddine is an award-winning writer and translator of books for children and young adults. She is...
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Episode 29: Covid Conversations #6: Performers and Teachers of Bharatanatyam – Smitha Magal and Priya Murle
Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between Dublin, Ohio-based Smitha Magal and Priya Murle of Chennai, India. Both women are dancers and teachers of one of India’s oldest classical dance traditions, Bharatanatyam, and senior disciples of renowned dancer Sudharani Raghupathy. After some...
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Episode 28: Covid Conversations #5: Ethnographers – Dr. Lucy Long (Bowling Green, Ohio) and Dr. Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by ethnographers Dr. Lucy Long, a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros, an anthropologist with the Institute of Heritage Sciences at the Spanish National Research Council in Santiago de...
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Episode 27: Covid Conversations #4: Orchestral Musicians – Cleveland Orchestra Cellist Mark Kosower and Berlin Philharmonic Violist Matthew Hunter
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by Mark Kosower, Principal Cello with the Cleveland Orchestra, and Matthew Hunter, violist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to playing with their respective orchestras, both Mark and Matthew perform as soloists and chamber ensemble players and are...
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Episode 26: Covid Conversations #3- Quilt Makers and Quilting Group Organizers – Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi (West Chester, Ohio) and Felicity Khan (South Africa)
Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between West Chester, Ohio-based quilter and scholar Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi and quilter Felicity Khan of South Africa. Dr. Mazloomi is a quilter, quilt scholar, curator, and founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. In 2014, Mazloomi was named a...
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Episode 25: Covid Conversations #2- Dancers and Teachers of Argentine Tango – Jessica Tupa and Monica Maria Fumagalli
Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between Dayton-based dancer and psychotherapist Jessica Tupa and dancer and scholar Monica Maria Fumagalli of Milan, Italy. Tupa is a psychotherapist with a background as a dancer and educator. An alumna of the Ohio State University Department of Dance,...
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Episode 24: Perfecting Democracy- Why It Matters- Dr. Kevin Mattson
In this episode, we discuss ideas and political divisions in American politics with Dr. Kevin Mattson. Dr. Mattson received his B.A. from the New School for Social Research and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. His research focuses on intellectual history and political culture in the...
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Episode 23: Perfecting Democracy- Why It Matters- Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Hasan Kwame Jeffries was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, he graduated from Morehouse College with a BA in history and, in 2002, he earned his Ph.D. from Duke University. Dr. Jeffries’ academic background and award-winning research on the origins of the Black Power Movement in Alabama has...
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Episode 22: Covid Conversations #1 - Wordsmiths and Artists – Omopé Carter-Daboiku and Alinah Azadeh
For this first episode of Covid Conversations, host Rachel Hopkin is joined by Omopé Carter-Daboiku and Alinah Azadeh. Carter-Daboiku is a storyteller who grew up rural southern Ohio. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of place, identity and belonging, and the experience of growing up a...
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Episode 21: Perfecting Democracy- Why It Matters- Dr. Barbara Palmer
In this episode, we discuss the 1872 presidential campaign of Victoria Woodhull and the challenges women have faced in becoming elected officials in the United States with Dr. Barbara Palmer. Dr. Palmer earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her Ph.D. from…
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Episode 20: Perfecting Democracy- Why It Matters- Contested Elections
In this Episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses disputed elections with Christie Weininger and Dr. Dustin McLochlin. Christie is the Executive Director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, and Dustin is a historian and curator at the Rutherford B. Hayes…
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Episode 19: Director of Photography at the Cincinnati Enquirer Cara Owsley
In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen. Our guest in this episode is Cara Owsley who is Director of Photography at the Cincinnati Enquirer and a national award-winning visual journalist, including as photojournalist and photo editor for the Enquirer’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize...
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Episode 18: Perfecting Democracy- Why It Matters- Interview with Ron Bryant and Dr. La Trice Washington
In this episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses American democracy and the Electoral College with Dr. La Trice Washington. Dr. Washington is an Associate Professor of American Government at Otterbein University and the author of Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary...
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Episode 17: Ohio University Journalism Students
In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen. Our guests in this episode are Destiniee Jaram and Jack Boden. Both are undergraduate students in the journalism program at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and they share their perspective on the profession for which they are…
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Episode 16: Perfecting Democracy- Why It Matters- Interview with David Giffels
Perfecting Democracy—Why it Matters” explores the history of civic engagement in the United States. In this episode, we bring together award-winning broadcast journalist Ron Bryant, and Akron based journalist and author of Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America, David Giffels. Together they...
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Episode 15: Mark Curnutte, Reporting, and Race
Our guest for this episode – in which our focus is racial equity in media reporting - is Mark Curnutte (http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/sociology-gerontology/about/faculty-staff/mark-curnutte/index.html). Mark Curnutte has been on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford Ohio…
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Episode 14: Report for America Reporters
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is about Report for America. In it, we hear from some of the project’s 2020-2021 Ohio-based corps members who all began their new jobs during June of 2020. The guests interviewed are Seyma Bayram, who is reporting on minority and…
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Episode 13: Jen Miller and the League of Women Voters of Ohio
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920. Our...
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Episode 12: Tim Feran and the Landscape of Local Newspapers in Ohio
This episode’s guest is writer and reporter, Tim Feran, talks about the landscape of local newspapers in Ohio. You can find out more about Tim at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-feran-1b0944a/ and here are some links to his work: The Poynter article about Gannett, the Ithaca Journal, and ghost...
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Episode 11: Neenah Ellis and Luke Dennis of WYSO
This episode features Neenah Ellis and Luke Dennis of WYSO - https://www.wyso.org - which is the Greater Dayton area’s only NPR News station. Luke Dennis, who has a background in arts and music administration, is WYSO’s General Manager. Neenah Ellis, who was Luke’s predecessor in that role, is a...
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Episode 10: Dr Treva Lindsey- Women of Color and Universal Suffrage
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920. In this...
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Episode 9: Ladies First- A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art
Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment,...
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Episode 8: Dr Kimberly Hamlin- The National American Woman Suffrage Association
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920. Our...
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Episode 7: Patti Gallagher Newberry- U.S. Presidents Past and Present and the Press
Today, the podcast’s guest is Patricia Gallagher Newberry - https://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/mjf/about/faculty-staff/newberry-patricia/ - who is the current President of the Society of Professional Journalists - https://www.spj.org – and who runs the Journalism Program at Miami...
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Episode 6: Poet and Playwright David Hassler and the Kent State Shootings
In this episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast revisits Kent State University 50 years on from the May 4th 1970 shootings by members of the National Guard of four unarmed students on the campus. The episode includes an interview with poet and playwright David Hassler who discusses...
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Episode 5: Susan Trollinger – Rebels in Corsets
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of...
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Episode 4: Barbara Palmer – From Mrs. Satan to Madame Speaker: 150 Years of Ohio Women Running for Public Office
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of...
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Episode 3: Not Far from Me- Stories of Opioids and Ohio
Join a conversation between Ohio Humanities Executive Director Pat Williamsen and Ohio University professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz as they discuss their new book Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio. With support from Ohio Humanities, Ohio University medical school professors...
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Episode 2: Stephanie Hinnershitz - Phyllis Schlafly and the Equal Rights Amendment
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of...
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Episode 1: Mindy McGinnis on her book “Heroine”
In this episode of Ohio Humanities’ Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast, Ohio author Mindy McGinnis talks about her latest YA novel Heroine(Harper Collins, 2019). Mindy McGinnis is an Ohio-born-and-bred ninth generation farmer and an award-winning author of YA fiction. Mindy’s latest book,...
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