About the Podcast
Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, popularly unknown, and exciting stories plucked from the footnotes of history. The brainchild of Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge, Footnoting History began airing in February 2013 and has been growing ever since. Our rotating ensemble of podcasters all possess graduate degrees in the field of history. Each historian conducts his or her own research and creates the content of their episode. We are lucky to have members with varied passions, both in terms of periods and topics, and you never know what the next episode will be about!
Below you will find a brief bio of each person involved in making our podcast. For press information and podcast statistics, please see our Media Kit, and a complete list of past episodes is available in our Archive.
Below you will find a brief bio of each person involved in making our podcast. For press information and podcast statistics, please see our Media Kit, and a complete list of past episodes is available in our Archive.
Administration Team
ELIZABETH KEOHANE-BURBRIDGE Co-PRODUCER | Episodes
Our fearless leader (unless bugs are involved), Elizabeth enjoys history, chocolate, and mystery novels. While despairing of a future in academia, Elizabeth hatched on the idea to start her own history podcast, full of the best stories - the ones she always seems to need to cut!
While her research is predominantly on late medieval/early modern English church councils and questions about power and money (always follow the money!), Elizabeth enjoys teaching social history and using contemporary literature to get at historical truths - at least that's why she says she reads so much Wilkie Collins. Elizabeth earned her BA in history from Boston College - where she was also able to spend her junior year abroad at Oxford University's Harris Manchester College - and has her MA and PhD in medieval (/early modern - take that periodization!) history from Fordham University. For more about her research, publications, and awards, see her Academia.edu page.
While her research is predominantly on late medieval/early modern English church councils and questions about power and money (always follow the money!), Elizabeth enjoys teaching social history and using contemporary literature to get at historical truths - at least that's why she says she reads so much Wilkie Collins. Elizabeth earned her BA in history from Boston College - where she was also able to spend her junior year abroad at Oxford University's Harris Manchester College - and has her MA and PhD in medieval (/early modern - take that periodization!) history from Fordham University. For more about her research, publications, and awards, see her Academia.edu page.
CHRISTINE CACCIPUOTI ASSISTANT PRODUCER | Episodes
Christine dreams of one day having lunch with Empress Josephine of France and Queen Hortense of Holland--or perhaps Kings Henry II and Richard III of England. Since they are all otherwise occupied at present she settled for studying their lives and obtained her BA and MA in history from Fordham University.
She spends a lot of time staring at twitter (@historyfootnote) and instagram (@footnotinghistory) and serving as Footnoting History's resident Bonaparte enthusiast, but she can also regularly be found in a theatre or scribbling furiously in one of her many notebooks. Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia beyond the Academy, which she coedited with Elizabeth, was published by University Press of Kansas in 2020. For more about her, please visit ChristineCaccipuoti.com.
She spends a lot of time staring at twitter (@historyfootnote) and instagram (@footnotinghistory) and serving as Footnoting History's resident Bonaparte enthusiast, but she can also regularly be found in a theatre or scribbling furiously in one of her many notebooks. Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia beyond the Academy, which she coedited with Elizabeth, was published by University Press of Kansas in 2020. For more about her, please visit ChristineCaccipuoti.com.
Podcasters
LUCY BARNHOUSE | Episodes
Lucy has been fascinated by stories about the Middle Ages since she was young enough to be falling out of trees while pretending to be Robin Hood. Regaling people with stories about the Middle Ages was a natural next step, and she was thrilled to discover she could make a career of doing so. Having put together enough stories about lepers and hospitals to be given a Ph.D., she is now happily telling stories as a visiting assistant professor.
josh hevert | Episodes
Once upon a time, Josh hated history. He has, however, always found a deep interest in religion. He credits his parents moving from church to church during his childhood for sparking his keen interest in the different types of Christianities throughout the world. And thanks to the movie Se7en, Josh became interested in Dante’s Commedia and Milton’s Paradise Lost, which led him to the Middle Ages. Then one day in a fourth-floor University of Hawaii office, Josh’s future adviser, one of those scary historians, showed him how it was possible to study the history of medieval Christianity in a way that opened his mind to a million different possibilities. He went on to complete a PhD in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016, for which he completed a dissertation about competing Latin Christian orthodoxies in fourteenth-century Asia via a study of Pope John XXII and Franciscan and Dominican missionaries. For more about his research, please visit his website, joshuahevert.com.
Josh is currently an Assistant Professor at El Paso Community College, where he teaches both the US History and World History surveys. When not fully immersed in the past, Josh can be found reading fantasy novels and comic books, playing video games, watching hockey and baseball, and hanging out with his dogs.
Josh is currently an Assistant Professor at El Paso Community College, where he teaches both the US History and World History surveys. When not fully immersed in the past, Josh can be found reading fantasy novels and comic books, playing video games, watching hockey and baseball, and hanging out with his dogs.
LESLEY SKOUSEN | Episodes
From the challenges of the daily grind to life-threatening medical catastrophes, Lesley is most interested in exploring social history. In particular, her work focuses on the law, which so often creates an informal log of the things that worried leaders and populations the most. Sometimes those things are highly important: invaders, famine, crime waves. Sometimes they are imagined: witchcraft, foreigners, imposters. Lesley's research has focused on crime and mercy, the history of medicine and technology, social movements throughout the world, and human slavery and branding. Her early focus of early modern England is quickly becoming stretched into a study of the world.
When not recording podcasts, Lesley is trying to travel to 100 countries in her lifetime. In between trips, she bikes, paints, cooks, and lectures random people on historical moments. For this people actually pay her and invite her elsewhere. What a world we live in.
When not recording podcasts, Lesley is trying to travel to 100 countries in her lifetime. In between trips, she bikes, paints, cooks, and lectures random people on historical moments. For this people actually pay her and invite her elsewhere. What a world we live in.
Kristin Uscinski | Episodes
Kristin can thank the sleeping monk of Spaceship Earth EPCOT for inspiring her love of history. Many years and a Ph.D. later, she has never grown tired of finding the joy in the study of the past. She is an adjunct professor who still cannot believe that she is allowed to – carefully and gently – play with medieval manuscripts. Part of her secretly hopes that the EPCOT monk wrote one of them.
