Stephanie Bastek

Stephanie Bastek is the senior editor of the Scholar and the producer/host of the Smarty Pants podcast.

Women at War

The fight for a spot on the frontlines (and in the history books)

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 12, 2021

How to Be a Grown-Up

Redefining the traditional markers of adulthood

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 5, 2021

The Many Faces of Aeneas

How Virgil plays with our collective memory

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 26, 2021

Red Star Avant Garde

How contemporary artists made China modern

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 19, 2021

What’s Happening in Myanmar

Understanding the military coup in Myanmar

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 12, 2021

Home Alone, with 200,000 Friends

Coming to terms with the critters we live with

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 5, 2021

All in the Family

How the mob came to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and small towns across America

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 29, 2021

Death in Papua New Guinea

Chronicling the disappearance of an entire language—and everything else that goes with it

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 22, 2021

Looking In, Looking Out

Artist Betty Yu turns the camera on her family

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 15, 2021

The Father of Art History

The man behind the great men of the Renaissance

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 8, 2021

Kinship and Contradictions

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 13, 2024

Overconsumed

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 29, 2024

American Horror Story

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday October 31, 2024

The Writing on the Wall

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 18, 2024

This Woman’s Work

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 4, 2024

Queen of the Night

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 20, 2024

A Toothsome Tale

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2024

A Rebel to Remember

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2024

Going for Gold

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2024

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