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About Susan Liebell
Susan Liebell is a political theorist working at the intersection of public law. Currently, she is researching and publishing on originalism, Stand Your Ground, reproductive rights, and the Second Amendment. Recently, her work has appeared in the Monkey Cage, The Journal of Politics, and Polity. Her teaching during COVID was featured in the Washington Post. She provides political commentary for many outlets including KYW in Philly, PHL 17's In Focus, and Wisconsin Public Radio's Central Time.Susan Liebell is a Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Susan:
May 6, 2024
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temple UP, 2022) provides an in-depth historical anal…
April 8, 2024
Empire of Brutality
Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex …
March 25, 2024
Understanding Comparative Politics
Research in political science shows that collections and textbooks often mention race, gender, ethnicity, and religion – but they don’t consistently u…
February 12, 2024
Judging Inequality
Soaring levels of political, legal, economic, and social inequality have been documented by social scientists – but the public conversation and schola…
January 29, 2024
Failing Moms
The role of mother is often celebrated in the United States as the most important job in the world but Dr. Caitlin Killian argues that American mother…
January 15, 2024
Race, Rights, and Rifles
The United States has more guns than people and more gun violence than any Western democracy. Scholars in diverse fields interrogate why 21st century…
December 18, 2023
In Her Own Name
We often narrate the history of women’s rights in the United States by focusing on the fight for suffrage. Yet starting as early as 1835, states expan…
December 4, 2023
Gun Country
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second Am…
November 6, 2023
Wrong
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fro…
October 30, 2023
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian Am…
October 23, 2023
Supreme Hubris
The American public’s confidence in the United States Supreme Court is a historic low – in part based on a belief that the Supreme Court is increasing…
September 25, 2023
The People and Their Peace
Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States Supreme…
September 18, 2023
How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a curr…
August 28, 2023
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak, And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak. At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley published the first book i…
August 22, 2023
Guns, Violence, and the Law
Two blockbuster cases came down in June of 2022. The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen subs…
August 21, 2023
The Elevator Effect
Does it matter if judges are nice to each other? The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (Oxford UP, 2023) argues that…
August 7, 2023
Protecting the Public?
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic violence and firearms law to …
July 31, 2023
Black Folk
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contribut…
July 24, 2023
Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
The Supreme Court recently wrapped up their term – and announced that they will hear a very controversial case about domestic abuse, the power of Cong…
July 10, 2023
Persuading the Supreme Court
Each June in the United States, scholars, journalists, law makers, law enforcers, lawyers, and members of the public wait for the announcement of majo…
June 26, 2023
The Shadow Docket
Many people are familiar with the United States Supreme Court’s merit docket. Each case follows detailed and professional proceedings that include for…
June 23, 2023
Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
Postscript invites authors to react to contemporary political events that engage their scholarship. Since the Supreme Court is wrapping up their term,…
June 19, 2023
Beauty and the Brain
Between the 1770s and 1860s, people across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. Physiognomy refers to using facial …
May 22, 2023
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation (U Georgia Press, 2021) offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial …