In this super sized Study Hall, Michael Yudell brings tales of aliens, demons, and Gohmert- oh my! Kae Lani Palmisano lectures on Garden State (not the movie), Adam Rothman updates us on what Aaron Burr was up to post murder, and Jacki Antonovich takes us to the old west.

ABOUT JACQUELINE ANTONOVICH: Jacqueline Antonovich is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. She is also the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.

ABOUT KAE LANI PALMISANO: Kae Lani is the host of WHYY’s Check, Please! Philly, a restaurant series that invites viewers to experience all that the Philadelphia region’s lively and diverse dining scene has to offer.  Kae Lani is also a contributing Food & Travel Editor for USA TODAY 10Best and has work featured in Roads & Kingdoms and KitchenAid Stories.

ABOUT ADAM ROTHMAN: Adam Rothman is a Professor of History at Georgetown University, the author of Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery, and the curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive.

ABOUT MICHAEL YUDELL: Michael Yudell, the steady lecturer of Study Hall, is the Chair of the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Yudell is a researcher in the fields of ethics, genomics and the history of public health. His work focuses on the history, risk communication and ethics of autism spectrum disorders, as well as the history of the race concept in biology.

CAST: Sarah Clemency, Keane Cobb, Caitlin Corkery, Frank Farrell, Marcely Jean-Pierre, James Knight, Lora Magaldi, Mike Marbach, Melinda Messina, Robert O’Neill, and Aaron Unice