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Episode 144:
Thursday, 15 October, 2026

Edda Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon University) on her work as an accomplished historian of West Africa, rice, and the African diaspora. She discusses the role of linguistics and fieldwork in her writing about rice farming in Guinea and then turns to her prize-winning book, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 202[…]