Guest
Paul Sabin, Assistant Professor of History

Previous Episodes

dunning

October 28, 2009
Guest: Thad Dunning, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale
Subject: Cross-cutting cleavages and ethnic voting in Mali

clarke

October 21, 2009
Guest: Kamari Clarke, Professor of Anthropology
Subject: International Criminal Court and Legal Pluralism in Africa

harms

October 14, 2009
 Guest: Robert Harms, Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies
Subject: Slave traders and colonialism in equatorial Africa

Wood

October 7, 2009
 Guest: Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science
Subject: Sexual violence during war
 

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Episode: May 20, 2009

An assistant professor of environmental history, Professor Sabin’s research and teaching focus on United States environmental history, energy politics, and political and economic history, including natural resource development in the American West and overseas. His book, Crude Politics, examines how politics and law shaped a growing dependence on petroleum in California and the nation.  Professor Sabin talks about how history can prepare us for the climate crisis and energy transition.

Learn more about Paul Sabin