AUDIO LIBRARY

Children, Libraries and the Internet
Ann Bishop – professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Elizabeth Hearne – professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Emily Buss – University of Chicago Law Professor

The Duties of Citizenship
Adam Green – Professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University, and co-editor of the forthcoming Time Longer Than Rope: African-American Activism from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement
Michael Schudson – Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California-San Diego, and author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life
Michael Lind – Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and co-author of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics

Consequences of campaign finance reform
Jeff Milyo – Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Elizabeth Garrett – Professor in the Law School at the University of Chicago
Kirk Jowers – Director of Academic Affairs and Legal Counsel for The Campaign and Media Legal Center

Rhetoric and Science
Robert Richards – Professor in the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago, and author of The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Ken Alder – Professor of History at Northwestern University, and author of the forthcoming book The Measure of All Things
Joan Leach – Professor in the Rhetoric of Science Program at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and editor of the academic journal Social Epistemology

Joan of Arc
Kelly Devries - Associate Professor in the Department of History at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of Joan of Arc: A Military Leader
Francoise Meltzer - Professor in and Chair of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Chicago. She is also author of ForFear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
Nadia Margolis - Independent scholar and author of Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film: A Select, Annotated Bibliography
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The Evolution of Comics
Art Spiegelman - Creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series Maus: A Survivors Tale, co-founder of Raw (aka Real.Art.Works) Books and Graphics. He also co-edited the Little Lit anthology of comics for children
Chris Ware - Author of the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth. Ware also penned the comic book series The ACME Novelty Library. He currently writes and draws the weekly comic strip Rusty Brown
Scott McCloud - Comics artist and theorist, and author of Reinventing Comics and Understanding Comics
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The Right to Vote
Richard John - Associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
Alex Keyssar – Professor of history and public policy at Duke University and the author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in America
Barack Obama – Illinois State Senator from 13th district and a senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago
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The Presidency and Congress
Michael Mezey – Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at DePaul University
John Frendreis – Professor of Political Science at Loyola University and co-author of The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy
James Thurber – Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington, and author of “Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations”

Hair
Julie Willett – Professor of History at Texas Tech University, and author of Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop
Noliwe Rooks – Associate Director of the African American Studies Program at Princeton University, and author of Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women

The state of nuclear deterrence
Jack Mendelsohn – Senior Associate at the Center for Defense Information and Vice President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, and adjunct professor at the Elliot School of George Washington University
Tony Blankley – Syndicated columnist for the Washington Times and former Press Secretary for Rep. Newt Gingrich
Charles Glaser – Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, co-director the International Security Policy program at the University of Chicago, and co-author of the essay “National Missle Defense and the Future of U.S. Nuclear Policy” that appeared in the journal International Security

Appearance of Impropriety
Julia Driver – Professor of ethical theory at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and author of the essay, “Caesar’s Wife: On the Moral Significance of Appearing Good”
Charlie Madigan – editor of the Chicago Tribune’s weekly “opinion and editorial” Perspectives section
Kathleen Clark – Professor in the Law School at Washington University in St. Louis

Branding
William Mazzarella – Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming Shovelling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India
Tom O’Guinn – Professor marketing and sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
John Seabrook – a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, and author of NoBrow: The Culture of Marketing, and the Marketing of Culture

Historians and the Public Trust
Alfred Young – Senior Research Fellow at the Newberry Library, and author of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
Alex Keyssar – Professor of History and Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

Film Forum: Death and Cinema
Hank Sartin – Film Critic for the Chicago Free Press and a lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Chicago
Nancy Hogan – Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Miami
Martina Sturken – Professor in the Annenberg School For Communication at the University of Southern California, and author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic and the Politics of Remembering

The Aesthetic of Beauty
James Conant – Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago
Wendy Steiner – Richard L. Fischer Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and author of Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in 20th Century Art
Arthur Danto – Art critic for The Nation, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York City, and author of Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations

Biological Evolution
Chung-I Wu – chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago
Peter Ward – Paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle
Christopher Wills – Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of California, San Diego

Eating Habits
Lauren Berlant – Chair of the Center for Gender Studies and professor of English at the University of Chicago
Diane Lauderdale – Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago
Claire Pentecost – Professor in the Department of Photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Identity and Citizenship
John Torpey – Professor of Sociology and European History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, co-editor of Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World
Pamela Sankar – Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of the forthcoming Regulating Criminal Identity: From Log Books to DNA-Typing
Jeffrey Rosen – Professor at George Washington University Law School, legal affairs editor of The New Republic, and author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America

The promise of "Internet 2"
Steve Corbato – Director of Network Infrastructure for Internet 2, a consortium of universities, industry and government working develop advanced network applications and technologies
Joe Mambretti – Northwestern University’s International Center for Advanced Internet Research
Michael Wellings – Chief Engineer at Research Channel, a technology group working on multimedia internet applications