Princeton UP Ideas Podcast Creators & Guests

Alan Blinder is an American economist, professor at Princeton University, and served as the vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Dr. Francesca Trivellato is a historian, whose research focuses on cultural, economic and social history in the early modern period. Currently, she is a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study.Trivellato's publications have covered Italian history, Jewish history and trade and cultural networks. Her first book, "The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period," was published in 2009. Her most recent book, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society," was published in 2019.Trivalleto received her B.A. in History from the University of Venice, her Ph.D. in Social History from Bocconi University and her Ph.D. in History from Brown University.

Nick Haddad is a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology & the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University and author of the book, The Last Butterflies.

Dr. David M. Peña-Guzmán is a philospher. His areas of interest are animal studies, theories of consciousness, the history and philosophy of science, and contemporary European philosophy. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Humanities at San Francisco State University. He is also cohost of the podcast "Overthink."Peña-Guzmán's papers have appeared in Foucault Studies, The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and Hypatia. He is a co-author of "Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief," which was published in 2019. His first book, "When Animals Dream," was published in 2022.Peña-Guzmán received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University.

Dr. Matthew J. Lacombe is a researcher who specializes in American politics and interest groups, gun politics, political identity, and inequality. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in American Politics at Case Western Reserve University. Lacombe's work has appeared in several academic journals and in The New York Times, New Yorker, NBC News, NPR, Guardian, Washington Post, Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and Time. His first co-authored book, "Billionaires and Stealth Politics," was published in 2019. His second book, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force," was published in 2021.

Kieran Setiya is a philosopher whose work focuses on ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Currently, he is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Setiya is the author of "Practical Knowledge, Reasons without Rationalism," and "Knowing Right From Wrong," which defend a cognitive theory of intention, a form of virtue ethics, and an account of ethical knowledge that draws on Aristotle and Hume. He has also written about love, regret, and rights. Most recently, he is the author of a self-help book, "Midlife: A Philosophical Guide," and a number of essays in public philosophy.

Michelle Nickerson is an historian and author. Currently, she is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses on the history of women and gender, U.S. politics, social movements, cities and suburbs, and American religion. Nickerson's first book, "Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right," was published in 2012. She also co-authored a volume of essays called "Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region," which was published in 2011.