Through podcasts, departments across the College of Arts and Sciences are opening their research and scholarship to the public — for free. By producing media grounded in current events, looking toward the future while being mindful of the past, these departments transport an Ohio State education beyond campus to communities, classrooms and mobile devices around the world.
Voices of Excellence
Voices of Excellence, hosted by David Staley, associate professor of history, highlights the research of Arts and Sciences faculty and staff and takes listeners into the research labs, classrooms and studios of our experts.
A Story of Us
Anthropology graduate students launched this podcast to identify who anthropologists are, what they study and how they perform their research. They also seek to explain why anthropology is relevant to understanding diversity, our origins, human variation and behavior. Each episode draws on the four anthropology subfields studied at Ohio State: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology and linguistics.
Project Narrative
The Project Narrative podcast, launched in November 2021, is a monthly series in which a scholar selects a short narrative, reads it aloud, and then discusses it with a host. The discussion is organized around the questions, “what is this narrative doing, how is it doing it, and why do both of those things matter?”
Nouvelles Nouvelles
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies hosts an occasional podcast with visiting lecturers and Ohio State faculty and graduate students.
Thinking Through Design
Design is all around us, but how designers think through their work is often a mystery. Understanding that process can fuel our own curiosity and creativity. Adam Fromme hosts Thinking through Design as a series of long-format discussions to reveal the designer's mindset and realize its value.
Latin@ Stories
Latin@ Stories is a podcast born out of the oral history project about Latin@s in Ohio, Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio (ONLO). It seeks to amplify the Latin@ experience with interviews in Spanish, English and Spanglish.
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
Every month, more than 65,000 people from every continent connect with the Department of History’s Origins, an online magazine of podcasts, articles, essays, book reviews and more that look at current events from a historical perspective.
Discovering Sarah Piatt
Discovering Sarah Piatt explores the life of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919). This podcast is hosted by Elizabeth Renker, a professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University.
Shakespeare in the “Post”Colonies
This project is a collaboration between authors, theatre practitioners, academics, and artists working in a variety of modes. The participants reflect on their relationships to Shakespeare’s texts in places and times of postcolonial inheritance.