Nostalgia Trap Creators & Guests

Sarah Milov is an author, and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

Yekaterina Oziashvili is a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence College.

Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and union organizer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and editor of the anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (IAS/AK Press, 2022). His work has appeared in places such as NBC News, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Daily Beast, Truthout, In These Times and Protean.

Felix Biederman is one of the three founding hosts of Chapo Trap House. He is known for his comprehensive understanding of Middle East politics and the Metal Gear Solid video games.

Dr. Moustafa Bayoumi is a journalist and writer. Currently, he is a Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a columnist at The Guardian.Bayoumi's work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Nation, CNN.com, The London Review of Books, The National, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Progressive. He has edited several books and published three books of his own writing.

Alice Bag is the stage name of Alicia Armendariz. Armendariz is a punk rock singer, and leader and co-founder of the punk-rock band The Bags, a pioneering Los Angeles punk band in the 1970s.Armendariz's first book, "Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage: A Chicana Punk Story," was published in 2011. Her second book, "Pipe Bomb for the Soul," was published in 2015. Her debut self-titled debut album, "Alice Bag," was released in 2016.

Max Chafkin is a features editor and a tech reporter at Businessweek.

Corey Robin is an American political theorist, journalist, and professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Carl Lindskoog is an Assistant Professor of History at Raritan Valley Community College.

Samuel Stein is a geographer and urban planner who studies and writes about the politics of planning in New York City, with an emphasis on housing, real estate, labor and gentrification.

Liza Featherstone is a staff writer at Jacobin and the author of Diving Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation.

Michael Kazin is an American historian, professor at Georgetown University, and co-editor of Dissent magazine.

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, writer, and author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South.

Dr. Bruce J. Schulman is a historian of 20th-century U.S. history. Currently, he is the William E. Huntington Professor at Boston University.Schulman's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, Politico and Reuters. He has appeared the History Channel, PBS, and ABC-News.Schulman's first book, "From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980," was published in 1991. His second book, "Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents," was published in 1994. His most recent book, "The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society," was published in 2001.Schulman received his B.A. in History from YaleUniversity, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Stanford University.

Dr. Jeremy C. Young is a historian and the senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America.Previously, Young was the communications and marketing manager at the American Historical Association, and directed the AHA’s Freedom to Learn Initiative combating legislative censorship in history classrooms. Before that, he was an assistant professor of History and Director of the Institute of Politics and Public Affairs at Utah Tech University.Young's first book, "The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940," was published in 2017.Young received his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Indiana University.

Dr. Brooke Newman is a historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic, with current special interest in the history of slavery, the abolition movement, and the British royal family. Currently, she is a Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University.Newman co-edited the textbook "Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas," which was pubished in 2014. Her first book, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica," was published in 2018 and received the Gold Medal for World History in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards.Newman received her B.A. in History and English from Texas State University and her Ph.D. in Early Modern Britain & the British Atlantic from the University of California Davis.

Erin Bartram is a historian of women, gender, religion, and ideas in the 19th century U.S., and a founder and editor of Contingent.

James Oakes is an American historian, and is a Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he teaches history courses on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery, the Old South, Abolitionism and U.S. and World History. He taught previously at Princeton University and Northwestern University.

Mike Pearl is a Webby Award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The Awl, The Hollywood Reporter, Grist, and Death and Taxes, and his columns “How Scared Should I Be?,” “Climate 2050 Predictions,” and “Hours and Minutes” have been featured in VICE & was a VICE Magazine Columnist. Mike is a self proclaimed Apocalyptic Expert, he is based in Los Angeles, CA. The Day It Finally Happens is his first book.