2002-52 (12/29/02)

Handel's Messiah

John Finney, Associate Conductor and Chorus Master, Handel and Haydn Society.

Kwaanza!

De Ama Battle, Founder and Director, Art of Black Dance and Music.

2002-51 (12/22/02)

Three Centuries of Christmas in New England

Kenneth Turino, Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

The Nutcracker: A View from Backstage

Gianni Di Marco, Dancer, Choreographer, Boston Ballet

2002-50 (12/15/02)

Teaching Thinking

Robert Swartz, Emiritus Professor of Philosophy, UMass Boston; Director, National Center for Teaching Thinking

Chinese Exclusion

Jonathan Chu, author of article, George Frisbie Hoar and Chinese Exclusion: The Political Construction of Race; Professor of History, UMass Boston

2002-49 (12/8/02)

Mai's America

Marlo Poras, Producer, Director, Mai's America

Music of the Spanish Jews

Judith Wachs, Director, Voice of the Turtle

2002-48 (12/1/02)

When Race Becomes Real

Bernestein Singley, Editor, When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories

On Acting White

Lisa Dodson and Odessa Dorian Cole, co-authors, On Acting White: Mother-Daughter Talk featured in, When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Authors Confront Their Personal Histories

2002-47 (11/24/02)

Thanksgiving: Memory, Myth and Meaning

Richard Pickering, Special Projects Writer, Plimoth Plantation,

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2002-46 (11/17/02)

The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912

James Beauchesne, Visitor Services Supervisor, Lawrence Heritage State Park

Menopause in Society

Lynette Leidy-Sievert, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst

2002-45 (11/10/02)

The Birth of Public Relations

Larry Tye, Author, The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

Film and Community

Garen Daley, Movie Critic and Owner, Dedham Community Theatre

2002-44 (11/3/02)

Bad Art

Louise Sacco, Acting Interim Executive Director, Museum of Bad Art (MOBA),

A New Peabody Essex Museum

Dan Monroe, Executive Director, Peabody Essex Museum

2002-43 (10/27/02)

On Witches and Stone-Throwing Devils

Emerson Baker, Associate Professor of History, Salem State College.

Mexican Day of the Dead

Ann Blum, Assistant professor, Department of Hispanic Studies, UMass Boston

2002-42 (10/20/02)

Leaving Pico: A Coming-of-Age Story.

Frank Gaspar, author Leaving Pico

The Future of Long-Term Care

Yung-Ping Chen, Senior Fellow, Gerontology Institute;Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar's Chair in Gerontology; Professor of Gerontology, UMass Boston.

2002-41 (10/13/02)

Reexploring the Role of Skin Tone

Keith Maddox, Co-author, Cognitive Representations of Black Americans: Reexploring the Role of Skin Tone; Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, Tufts University.

How to Become a Race Traitor

Noel Ignatiev, Founder and Co-editor, Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism; Associate Professor, Department of Critical Studies, Massachusetts College of Art.

2002-40 (10/6/02)

Tomorrow's Leaders

Sherry Penney, Director, The Center for Collaborative Leadership and Development, UMass Boston.

Asian American Political Participation in Massachusetts

Paul Watanabe, Co-author, Asian American Voter Registration in Massachusetts: A preliminary report on ten cities and towns; Co-Director, Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston.

2002-39 (9/29/02)

My Fight with Suicide

Susan Blauner, Author, How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention.

Coping With Cancer

Harriet Berman, Program Director and Yasemin Turkman, Participant, The Wellness Community of Greater Boston.

2002-38 (9/22/02)

Envisioning UMass Boston

Jo Ann Gora Chancellor, UMass Boston

The Cohousing Alternative

Diane Simpson, Founder and Marketing Director, Jamaica Plain Cohousing

2002-37 (9/15/02)

The Boston Folk Festival

Dick Pleasants, Folk Radio personality.

Friendship in Black and White

Beverly Tatum, President, Spelman College; Andrea Ayvazian, Dean of Religous Life at Mount Holyoke College.

2002-36 (9/8/02)

Through the Lens of Lou Jones

Lou Jones, photographer photographer.

The Birth of Television

Evan Schwartz, author, The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television.

2002-35 (9/1/02)

Massachusetts Diners

Michael Steinitz, Director of Preservation, Planning Division, Massachusetts Historical Commission.

King Philip's War

Eric Schultz, author, King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict.

2002-34 (8/25/02)

Studying Prostate Cancer Treatment

Floyd Fowler, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Survey Research.

Green Chemistry

John Warner, Director, UMass Boston Center for Green Chemistry.

2002-33 (8/18/02)

Last Witnesses

Erica Harth, professor of Humanities and Women's Studies, Brandeis University; author, Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans..

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

Richard Minear, professor of History, UMass Amherst; author, Dr. Seuss Goes To War.

2002-32 (8/11/02)

Plasticware Empire: The Tupperware Story

Laurie Kahn Levitt, independent filmmaker.

Age of Homespun

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth.

2002-31 (8/4/02)

Antiquarian Society

Ellen Dunlap, Executive Director, American-Antiquarian Society.

Women and the Kitchen

Mary McFeely, author, Can She Bake A Cherry Pie?

2002-30 (7/28/02)

The Microbes Fight Back

Steve Brecher, Director of Microbiology, VA Boston Health Care System; Member, Alliance of the Prudent Use of Antibiotics..

Film and Society

Charlene Gilbert, filmmaker and fellow at Bunting Institute, Harvard University

2002-29 (7/21/02)

Sexual Intelligence

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn, authors of Sexual Intelligence; professors of psychology, UMass Boston.

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2002-28 (7/14/02)

North Pole Legacy

S. Allen Counter, author North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo.

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2002-27 (7/7/02)

Discussion with an Arctic Expeditionist

Heddi Vaughan Siebel, artist and Arctic expeditionist.

A Women's Language

Cathy Silber, assistant professor of Chinese, Williams College

2002-26 (6/30/02)

Washington's First Ladies

Catherine Allgor, Assistant Professor of History, Simmons College; author, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government.

A History of Marriage

Nancy Cott, Woodward Professor of History and American Studies, Yale; and author, Public Vows, A History of Marriage and the Nation.

2002-25 (6/23/02)

Asian American Writing

Rajini Sinkanth and Esther Iwanaga, both professors of English, UMass Boston, editors of Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing.

Little House Alternative School

Laura Baring-Gould, community-based artist; Sage Marsters, social studies teacher, The Little House Alternative School.

2002-24 (6/16/02)

The Music of Drugs, Guns and Guerrillas

Elijah Wald, author, Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas.

The Maverick Photography Project

Jennifer Gilbert, city planner; housing consultant; project director, Maverick Photography Project.

2002-23 (6/9/02)

A Look At the Friendship Between Four Abolitionists

John Stauffer, associate professor of English and American Civilization, Harvard University; author, The Black Hearts Of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.

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2002-22 (6/2/02)

Boston's Haitian Community

William Dorcena, publisher, Boston Haitian Reporter.

The Global Village

Peggy Levitt, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College; author, The Transnational Villagers.

2002-21 (5/26/02)

Cooking and History

Barbara Haber, author, From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.

The Fishing Industry

David Terkla, Professor, Economics Department, UMass Boston.

2002-20 (5/19/02)

"Touchable Stories"

Shannon Flattery, director and founder, Touchable Stories.

Who Was the Boston Strangler?

Susan Kelly, author, The Boston Stranglers.

2002-19 (5/12/02)

Searching for Family Roots

Ralph Crandall, Executive Director, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

History of Midwifery in Boston

Amelie Kass, author, Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876.

2002-18 (5/5/02)

Is Your House Making You Sick?

Jeff May, author, My Home Is Killing Me.

The Building of the Mass Pike

Yanni Tsipis, author, Building the Mass Pike.

2002-17 (4/28/02)

Florence Luscomb

Sharon Strom, author, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform.

Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

Matilde Zimmermann, assistant professor of history, Bridgewater State College; author, Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution.

2002-16 (4/21/02)

Latino Public Policy Conference 2002

Lorna Rivera, Research Associate, The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy

Discussion with Designer Joseph Abboud

Joseph Abboud, fashion designer

2002-15 (4/14/02)

Cleaning the Charles River

Anna Eleria, Environmental Scientist, Charles River Watershed Association.

Assessing Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Lois Biener, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Survey Research.

2002-14 (4/7/02)

Discussion with poet Charles Coe

Charles Coe, poet; author, Picnic On the Moon.

Favorite Poem Project

Maggie Dietz, Favorite Poem Project.

2002-13 (3/31/02)

The Lives and Times of McLean Hospital

Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist; author, Gracefully Insane.

Imagining Robert

Larry Hott, filmmaker, Florentine films, Hott Productions.

2002-12 (3/24/02)

Massachusetts Diners

Michael Steinitz, Director of Preservation, Planning Division, Massachusetts Historical Commission.

King Philip's War

Eric Schultz, author, King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict.

2002-11 (3/17/02)

The Afro-Asian Connection

Vijay Prashad, author, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.

The Education Achievement Gap

Pedro Noguera, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

2002-10 (3/10/02)

Conditioning the Teenage Athlete

Avery Faigenbaum, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, UMass Boston.

Teen Voices repeated from March 2001

Jillian Cohan, Managing Editor, Teen Voices.

2002-09 (3/3/02)

Studying Prostate Cancer Treatment

Floyd Fowler, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Survey Research.

Green Chemistry

John Warner, Director, UMass Boston Center for Green Chemistry.

2002-08 (2/24/02)

The Girls' Project

Marie Celestin, G.I.R.L.S. Project.

The Clemente Humanities Course

Kent Jacobson, Director, Clemente Course in the Humanities.

2002-07 (2/17/02)

Recent Discussions in Astronomy

Jonathan McDowell, scientist at the Chandra X-Ray Center at the Harvard-Smithsonean Center for Astro Physics.

State Science Fair

Jenna Morrison, senior Plymouth High School student, and Mary Ellen Stephen, President Massachusetts State Science Fair.

2002-06 (2/10/02)

Zoom: Behind the Scenes

Jim Johnston, Producer, Zoom.

Women on Top Festival

Joe Antoun, Artistic Director, CentaStage.

2002-05 (2/3/02)

Last Witnesses

Erica Harth, professor of Humanities and Women's Studies, Brandeis University; author, Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans..

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

Richard Minear, professor of History, UMass Amherst; author, Dr. Seuss Goes To War.

2002-04 (1/27/02)

Tales From The American Shtetl

Alan Lupo, Boston Globe staffwriter, author, The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American Shtetl..

Books of Hope

Part Two of our discussion with Anika Nailah, author, Free; Director, Books for Hope project.

2002-03 (1/20/02)

The Microbes Fight Back

Steve Brecher, Director of Microbiology, VA Boston Health Care System; Member, Alliance of the Prudent Use of Antibiotics..

A Natural History of the Mosquito

Andrew Spielman, professor of tropical health, Harvard School of Public Health; author, Mosquito: A Natural History of Man's Most Persistent and Deadly Foe.

2002-02 (1/13/02)

Free and Other Stories

Anika Nailah, Director, Books for Hope project; author, Free.

The Culture of Debt

Tim Wright, independent filmmaker.

2002-01 (1/06/02)

Building Community, Building Gardens

Betsy Johnson, vice president, Boston Natural Areas.

Aid to Incarcerated Mothers

Jean Fox, Executive Director, Aid to Incarcerated Mothers