About the Podcast
Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, 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!
Administration Team
ELIZABETH KEOHANE-BURBRIDGE 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 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. Christine is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA and that makes her smile. For more about her, please visit ChristineCaccipuoti.com.
She spends a lot of time staring at twitter (@historyfootnote) 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. Christine is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA and that makes her smile. For more about her, please visit ChristineCaccipuoti.com.
NATHAN MELSON SOUND EDITOR | Episodes
A Ph.D. candidate at Fordham University, if Nathan's not out taking photographs, critiquing bad tv, or reading a sci fi novel, he's writing his dissertation on the relationship between medieval urban economies and the Franciscan order. Or he's avoiding that by editing next week's podcast.
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.
Samantha Sagui | Episodes
Samantha enjoys swimming, singing, and sweets – she’s also a fan of alliteration but will attempt not to abuse it too much in her podcasts. She is thrilled to be involved with Footnoting History because it was the fun, random stories that originally inspired her to study the past.
Presently, Samantha spends most of her time making charts and chuckling at funny names in medieval court rolls while yearning for the days of more varied reading material. Although her research is focused on medieval English cities, Samantha enjoys reading and hearing about various time periods and approaches to understanding the past.
Presently, Samantha spends most of her time making charts and chuckling at funny names in medieval court rolls while yearning for the days of more varied reading material. Although her research is focused on medieval English cities, Samantha enjoys reading and hearing about various time periods and approaches to understanding the past.
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.
