About this episode

The episode features a discussion on the relationship between podcasting and science with guests Allison Carruth and Ellen Horne.

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a day-long conference titled Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting. It was co-sponsored by Princeton’s Journalism program, and the NYU Podcast Initiative. Over the course of four panels, scholars, podcasters, and journalists discuss how academics might employ the techniques of narrative audio as part of their research. In the third panel, Allison Carruth and Ellen Horne discussed the relationship between podcasting and science. Carruth is a professor at Princeton’s Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. At Princeton, she directs the Program in Environmental Studies and leads Blue Lab, an environmental media and storytelling studio. Her research and teaching areas include climate storytelling, environmental art and narrative, contemporary food movements and the evolving relationships between technology and environmentalism in American culture. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food. Horne directs the Podcasting and…

People in this episode

Guests: Allison Carruth, Ellen Horne

Topics covered

• podcasting
• science
• narrative audio
• environmental studies
• academic research

Keywords

• podcasting
• science
• environmental studies
• narrative audio
• academic research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Princeton’s Center for Human Values, Princeton’s Journalism program, NYU Podcast Initiative, Princeton’s Effron Center for the Study of America, High Meadows Environmental Institute, NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

Books & works: Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food, Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

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