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Raiders Of The Lost Archive

Raiders Of The Lost Archive

By: Jesse Driscoll & Christian Davenport
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 TRUE TALES of Discovery in the Social Sciences! Brought to you by Christian Davenport & Jesse Driscoll.Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. Science Social Sciences
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  • Episode 27: Michael Kofman

    Episode 27: Michael Kofman
    Oct 17 2025

    How does one study war up close without acquiring dangerous habits of mind? How is the professional path of a military analyst different from a ‘pure’ academic path - and what do cloistered academics who never work in the government miss? Michael Kofman (Carnegie) shares insight on his fieldwork experiences.
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    54 mins
  • Episode 25: Rose McDermott

    Episode 25: Rose McDermott
    Oct 3 2025

    Our podcast’s first bona fide political psychologist! Rose McDermott (Brown) has expertise spanning subjects from pharmacology to polygyny. In this lively episode we cover everything from male club behavior in security studies to the challenges of navigating graduate school if statistics aren’t your thing. Even nuclear war is easier to handle if you can laugh at it a little.
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    52 mins
  • Episode 25: Kirsten Weld

    Episode 25: Kirsten Weld
    Sep 26 2025
    How do you describe the smell of a newly-opened secret police archive, accidentally discovered in Guatemala City near a salvage yard for junked police cars? Only a few rare researchers can speak themselves into the Raiders of the Lost Archive canon as vividly as Kirsten Weld (Harvard). A can’t miss episode for anyone interested in pushing the boundaries between critical scholarship and activism.

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    54 mins
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