Stephanie Bastek

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

The Pacifist and the Battlefield

Chad Williams on W. E. B Du Bois’s reckoning with World War I and Black liberation

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 5, 2023

A Home in Chinatown

Ava Chin on tracing five generations of Chinese-American history

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 28, 2023

Listening to the Dead

Alexa Hagerty on how forensic anthropology exhumes crimes against humanity

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 21, 2023

That Time of the Month

Kate Clancy takes the mystery out of menstruation

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 14, 2023

Twenty Years of War

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the invasion of Iraq and the turmoil that followed in his homeland

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 7, 2023

The Art of Doing Nothing Much, Together

Sheila Liming on the importance of chillaxing

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 31, 2023

Cherry Blossom Bonanza

Naoko Abe on how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 24, 2023

Filling in the Fragments

Diane Rayor on translating the poetry of Sappho

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 17, 2023

Reading the Trail Trees

Alexander Nemerov on his efforts to resurrect the spirits of our lost woods

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 10, 2023

Chaucer’s Leading Lady

Marion Turner on our enduring fascination with the Wife of Bath

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 3, 2023

Family/History

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 14, 2025

Keepers of the Old Ways

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 17, 2025

The Snow Maiden

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday December 30, 2024

Ho Ho Horror

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 27, 2024

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

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