The Edge Effects podcast features interviews with scholars, scientists, activists, and artists who engage with questions of environmental and cultural change. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a rating and a review wherever you get your podcasts.
Latest episodes
Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin
In 2024, the FDA announced the banning of several types of PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” and the EPA issued the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect people from PFAS exposure. Community members have long been speaking out against PFAS and fighting for regional of state-wide standards. We’re ...
Maroon Geographies, Black Placemaking, and Abolitionist Futures: A Conversation with Celeste Winston
I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Celeste Winston about her recent book How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing from Duke University Press. Dr. Winston’s book intervenes in practical and academic discussions about police abolition by arguing that Black maroon communities’ practices of ...
Death, Leisure, and “Feeling Alive”: A Conversation with Adam Kaul
I spoke with Adam Kaul, a professor of anthropology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, about Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying, a book he co-edited with Jonathan Skinner. Dr. Kaul was one of my undergraduate anthropology professors, so we began with his personal journey ...
Goats, Bees, and Poetry: A Conversation with Nickole Brown
In October of 2023, I was given the chance to interview Nickole Brown, Black Earth Institute Fellow and author of several books of poetry including Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems. We discussed her ideas about speaking for the more-than-human world, her relationship with animals and poetry, and her upcoming ...
