In this episode I talk with Assistant Professor of Sociology Pamela G. Monaghan-Geernaert and Associate Professor of Communications Liz Sills about Native American political humor. Professors Monaghan-Geernaert and Sills have an article published in the volume Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody, (ed. Ofer Feldman, Springer 2024). The title of their article is "The Power of Funny: Indigenous High Art as Quiescence and Rebellion". Here is an excerpt from the article.

"In 2006 Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star released a print entitled The Last Thanks. Reminiscent of da Vinci’s The Last Supper, the piece features Red Star (in a traditional elk tooth dress) seated amid plastic skeletons wearing stereotypical Native headdresses at a table littered with unhealthy, prepackaged food... The Last Thanks uses funny imagery to address this history with a message of looking toward the future with resilience while realistically confronting the horrors of the past.

The host and creator of Wolftrax is Professor of Government Kenneth Blanchard.

In this episode I interview newly minted PhD Lucas Wiscons and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at NSU. In this episode find out what real encounters between the police and civilians are like. I also learn that there are such things as "ethnomethodology (the sociology of everyday life/commonsense knowledge) and conversation analysis (talk in interaction as the locus of social organization)". If you are interested in how the police and the people they encounter view the interaction later, this is the show for you.

The host and creator of Wolftrax is Professor of Government Kenneth Blanchard.

Intrepid professor of government Jon Schaff and I discuss President Trump's amazing week. Topics include DOGE, whether the Chief Executive will regain control over the executive branch, the state of the southern border, and the President's recent (not) State of the Union speech.

The host and creator of Wolftrax is Professor of Government Kenneth Blanchard.