Happy When Curious
My name is Brady Ryan and I am a sea salt farmer on San Juan Island in Washington State. Ever since I was a child I have felt like my main skill was not that I was smarter or stronger or harder working or braver than anyone else, I was just a little more curious than the average cat. Since becoming a parent and trying to be a good husband and small business owner have taken so much of my energy and attention, I feel like this one superpower I have has fallen by the wayside. This podcast is my attempt to rediscover curiosity through conversation and contemplation. I will be alternating conversations with guests one episode with a short musing of my own the next. The musing episodes will allow me to try to explore ideas that I've heard or that I've come up with in an open ended way. My theory is that exploration is worth much more than answers and hopefully the interviews and the musings can live up to that principle.
Happy When Curious
Daniel Cumming: The History of Our Country Through the Lens of One City
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Brady Ryan
Daniel is a historian whose research focuses on urban history, public health, racism, and capitalism in the twentieth-century United States. His dissertation, “Health is Wealth: The Rise of a Medical Metropolis and the Remaking of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century Baltimore,” traces the development of a postwar health care economy through housing, environment, and labor politics, focusing on the transformation of neighborhoods and livelihoods among its working-class residents. Daniel is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University.
