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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.


Administration Team


CHRISTINE CACCIPUOTI

 CO-PRODUCER and SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER | EPISODES
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Christine has been in love with history since she was a small child watching Newsies on loop. She received her MA in medieval history from Fordham University largely due to the inspiration of Sharon Kay Penman's novels. Now, she particularly loves studying the families of France’s Napoleon Bonaparte and England’s King Henry II. Christine co-edited Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia beyond the Academy (University Press of Kansas, 2020), contributed to American National Biography, and has an essay on Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" in One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song . In her spare time, Christine talks far too much about The History Boys, musical theater, and Disney. You can find more about her (including her blog) at ChristineCaccipuoti.com.

Kristin Uscinski 

CO-PRODUCER and AUDIO EDITOR| EPISODES
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​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 | Episodes

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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.


josh hevert | Episodes

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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. 

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. He will probably never finish his to-read list.

samantha sagui| Episodes

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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. ​




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.


Alumni

Christina Bruno | Episodes

ELIZABETH KEOHANE-BURBRIDGE
(FOUNDER) | EPISODES
NATHAN MELSON | EPISODES

ESTHER CUENCA | Episodes

John Lash | Episodes

Kirsti Norris | Episodes

Ryan Keating | Episodes

 Nicole Lopez-Jantzen | Episodes

LESLEY SKOUSEN | Episodes

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