About us

Created in 2013, Footnoting History is a podcast that focuses on overlooked and underappreciated areas of the history, whether that means a topic completely unknown to most listeners or a new look at a well-known person, period, or event. Our hosts are all trained historians with a passion for sharing history's complexities with the public. They research, write, and record their own episodes on topics that excite them -- and we hope they excite you, too.

We release a new episode, usually between 20 and 30 minutes long, every other week and provide captioned versions on each episode's blog post on this website, as well as on our YouTube channel.

Below you will find brief biographies of our team and links to pages featuring their episodes. We hope you will choose to join us as we serve up history to you one episode at a time.

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our Team

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CHRISTINE CACCIPUOTI

 CO-PRODUCER | EPISODES

Christine received her MA in medieval history from Fordham University . Now, she particularly loves studying the families of France’s Napoleon Bonaparte and England’s King Henry II. She also enjoys diving into the intersection of history and her favorite pieces of pop culture. Christine has co-edited Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia beyond the Academy (University Press of Kansas, 2020), contributed entries to American National Biography, and published chapters on topics including Newsies' Spot Conlon and Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997." In her spare time, Christine can be found supporting elephant conservation, attending the theater, and talking about all things Disney. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. You can find more about her at ChristineCaccipuoti.com. 

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Kristin Uscinski 

CO-PRODUCER and AUDIO EDITOR | EPISODES

​Kristin used to get so excited to visit Colonial Williamsburg that she couldn’t sleep for weeks ahead of time. She is still that super cool of a person. Kristin has an MA in medieval history and a doctorate in history from Fordham University, where she also focused on medieval history because, apparently, she cannot get enough. She is the author of a database of approximately 2,000 recipes for women’s healthcare in medieval England and is a contributing editor for the Medieval Londoners Database, a digital project which records the activities of London residents between c.1100 and 1520. Currently, she is working on a Middle English edition of a medical recipe collection in the British Library and is a Lecturer of History at SUNY Purchase College.

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LUCY BARNHOUSE

HOST | EPISODES

Lucy Barnhouse received her PhD from Fordham University in 2017, and has been Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas State University since Fall 2020, having previously held visiting positions at the College of Wooster and Wartburg College. While her research focuses on medieval hospitals, she teaches a wide variety of courses in global premodern and medical history. Her other passions — like Sherlock Holmes and opera — also sometimes make an appearance on Footnoting History. When not doing historical work or entertaining her cat, she enjoys biking, baking, and British detective shows.

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Benjamin DiBiase

HOST | EPISODES

Ben earned his MA from the University of Central Florida in 2017. He worked for almost a decade in archives and library management. While there, he contributed to a weekly history podcast focused on lesser-known stories from their collections. Ben currently works as an historian for an engineering firm writing historic contexts and helping to conduct cultural resources surveys for large-scale infrastructure projects as well as evaluating historic resources for National Register eligibility. He specializes in U.S. history, but absolutely loves to tuck into new topics/areas whenever he gets the opportunity. When not researching, Ben enjoys spending time outdoors (usually skateboarding) with his wife and two sons.

ted harvey

HOST | EPISODES

Ted has loved history since a childhood obsession with King Arthur (the real, historical King Arthur). This passion led to summers spent doing extensive research on late-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon England as a twelve year old. He earned his MA in medieval studies at Fordham University, where his thesis on road paving in medieval England was the talk of the department. Having realized his passion for history lay outside the academic world, he earned his Masters in Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently the Economic Development Program Manager for the most rural county in Massachusetts. This abrupt change has not dimmed his love of history and he is excited to join Footnoting History (and yes, he still is searching for the real King Arthur).

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Jessica irwin

HOST | EPISODES

Jessica is an archaeologist by training. She used to drive her teachers crazy by asking questions in history class about how we know what we know about the past, which led to archaeology.  Jessica has her BA in Anthropology and her MA in History. She has worked as an archaeologist for nearly two decades. Jessica started out as a Terrestrial Archaeologist working in the Caribbean and the Southern US and moved to underwater and maritime archaeology in graduate school. She is currently working full-time as an Underwater Archaeologist, is a mom to two kids, and is pursuing her PhD.  Jessica loves sci-fi and fantasy novels, coaching soccer, and traveling. ​

samantha sagui

HOST | EPISODES

Although Samantha always loved history, when she went to college she planned to be practical and to major in chemistry, which seemed like a more lucrative field. But she could never resist the lure of the past and ended up getting a PhD in medieval history. Now she works as a part-time adjunct and a full-time mom of two very silly children. Her research interests include the history of policing in Britain, urban history, and everything having to do with the British monarchy. 

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The Footnoting History team would like to express our eternal thanks to Joseph Kroetsch for his guidance and assistance with all matters regarding audio production. Your help is very much appreciated.

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Artificial intelligence  policy

At Footnoting History, we have been producing content without the “help” of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 2013--and we are committed to keeping that from changing. We promise that everything you receive from us will continue to be made by humans (us) with care for our favorite fellow humans (you). You deserve the best, and AI writing, recording, and editing your podcasts isn’t it.