Media

Robin Bernstein, “Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit”

2025 | New Books Network

Freeman's Challenge: The murder that shook America's original prison for profit. Talking with Professor Robin Bernstein

2025 | The San Francisco Experience

It's Immoral to Profit Fromm Another's Imprisonment: Dr. Robin Bernstein

2024 | First things First KBLA

“Freeman’s Challenge With Robin Bernstein”

2024 | Point of Learning with Peter Horn

“Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit”

2024 | The Rufus Williams Show

“S:6 E:49 | Freeman's Challenge: Unveiling the Origins of Prison for Profit with Dr. Robin Bernstein”

2024 | Books That Make You

“Episode 55: Robin Bernstein and the Disco Ball of Integrity”

2024 | Drafting the Past

“Keyword missing from CA's proposed forced labor bill may have caused it to fail”

2024 | KNX News 97.1 FM

“Robin Bernstein, PhD, author, cultural historian and professor, on the entangled origins of “prisons for profit” and anti-Black racism in America and beyond”

2024 | KKFI Urban Connections

How Private For-Profit Prisons are LEGAL Slavery

2024 | The Conversation with Al McFarlane

Build Your Thought Leadership & Freeman’s Challenge Featuring Coach Felecia Killings and Dr. Robin Bernstein

2024 | A Moment with Erik Fleming

Challenging the Legacy: An Interview with Historian Robin Bernstein on William Freeman and the Roots of America’s Prison System

2024 | Epistle News

How Carceral Slavery Began

2024 | 94.1 KPFA: Against the Grain

The Sin of Racial Capitalism and For-Profit Prisons

2024 | The Lean to the Left Podcast

Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit

2024 | New Books Network

Episode 2158: Robin Bernstein on the Marriage of American Capitalism with the American Prison System

2024 | Keen On

Freeman's Challenge - Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein

2024 | Labor Jawn

Freedom Now Gerald Horne: Louis Decaro on John Brown; Robin Bernstein US's Original 4 Profit Prison

2024 | Activist News Network

Prison CORRUPTION Has Long DESTROYED America!

2024 | Social Society w/ Brandon Clark

TWIH 165 Dr Robin Berstein interview

2024 | This Week in History

Wake Up With WURD with Solomon Jones - Dr. Robin Bernstein

2024 | WURD Radio

The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums | Freeman's Challenge

2024 | BronxNet

“Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit”

2024 | Academic Life

“Episode 242: America’s Original Prison-for-Profit”

2024 | Everyday Injustice Podcast

“A Conversation with conversation with Robin Bernstein, author, Freeman’s Challenge, The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit”

2024 | That Said With Michael Zeldin

“Ep. 248 - Robin Bernstein”

2024 | The Rob Burgess Show

“The Auburn Prison System & the Case of William Freeman”

2024 | Unsung History

“Freeman's Challenge with Dr. Robin Bernstein”

2024 | Civics & Coffee

“America’s Prisons Are Slave Labor Factories”

2024 | Scheer Post

“William Freeman and America's first profit-driven prisons”

2024 | Explaining History

“Robin Bernstein joins Tavis Smiley”

2024 | Tavis Smiley

“How The North Invented For Profit Prison Labor With Dr. Robin Bernstein”

2024 | WORT FM

“Episode 56 – Auburn Prison and the Murder that Shocked America with Robin Bernstein”

2024 | Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

“Footnote leads to exploration of start of for-profit prisons in N.Y.”

2024 | The Harvard Gazette

“Auburn Prison and the Murder that Shocked America with Robin Bernstein”

2024 | A book talk series with the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library

“Advice for Advisors: Best Practices from Award-Winning Faculty Experts and their Students”

2021 | Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, given by the Graduate Student Council, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

2021 | Half-hour interview with Zachary Davis, “Writ Large: A Podcast about the Books that Changed the World”

“Performance and Resistance: An Interview with Robin Bernstein”

2018 | Podcast interview, Being Human

“Robin Bernstein Brings Slave Narrative into the Open”

2018 | Heard at Harvard

“Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color”

2012 | With Michelle McCrary, multi-ethnic/multi-cultural web radio program

“Uprising Radio”

2012 | With Sonali Kolhatkar, progressive radio program, KPFK Pacifica in Southern California

“Women-Stirred Radio”

2012 | With Merry Gangemi, feminist radio program, WGDR, Plainfield, VT

“The Women’s Show”

2011 | With Arly Helm, feminist radio program, KVMR-FM, Grass Valley, CA

“Voices of Our World”

2011 | With Kathy Golden, program run by the Maryknoll, a progressive religious community. Nationally syndicated to over 100 radio stations

“The Wimmin’s Music Program”

2011 | With Laura Rinaldi, feminist radio program, KKUP, Santa Cruz

“The Bob Salter Show”

2011 | Progressive radio show, WFAN/WXRK, New York City

“Peace and Social Justice”

2011 | With Laurel Avalon, KZFR, Chico, CA

“Northern Spirit Radio”

2011 | With Mark Judkins Helpsmeet, progressive Christian radio program

“Radio with a View”

2011 | With Marc Stern, progressive radio program, WMBR FM, Cambridge, MA

“Perspectives”

2011 | With Richard Baker, progressive radio show syndicated on 23 NPR stations

“Late Mornings”

2011 | With Jeff Schechtman, progressive radio show, KVON-AM, Napa, CA

“Lambda Radio Report”

2011 | With Charone Pagett, African American LGBT radio show, WRFG-FM, Atlanta

“An Evening with Guy Rathbun”

2011 | Progressive radio show, KCBX - FM, (NPR) San Luis Obispo

“Culture Shocks”

2011 | With Barry Lynn, progressive radio show sponsored by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Syndicated to 9 radio stations in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and California

“Lesbian and Gay Voices”

2011 | With Jone Devlin, KPFT (Pacifica), Houston, TX

“LIBRadio” (“Living in Black Radio”)

2011 | With Keidi Obi Awadu, Afrocentric radio show, Black Star Media, Inglewood, CA

“The 8:00 Buzz”

2011 | With Stan Woodard, progressive radio show, WORT-FM, Madison, Wisconsin

“Feminist Edition”

2011 | With Charlotte Crockford, WUML, Lowell, MA

“Conversations with Peter Solomon”

2011 | With Charlotte Crockford, WUML, Lowell, MA

“Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race”

2010 | Outstanding Article Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education