{"id":27942,"date":"2026-07-13T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=27942"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:39:18","slug":"rod-phillips-talks-to-media-about-cats-and-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2026\/rod-phillips-talks-to-media-about-cats-and-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Phillips talks to media about cats and alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Rod Phillips talks to media about cats and alcohol\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/roderick-phillips\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/roderick-phillips\/\">Rod Phillips<\/a> talks to media about cats and alcohol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/roderick-phillips\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/roderick-phillips\/\">Professor Rod Phillips<\/a> appeared in several media in June and early July. Most appearances related to his book, <em>Cats: A History<\/em>, which was published at the beginning of June by Johns Hopkins University Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/books\/title\/12937\/cats\">https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/books\/title\/12937\/cats<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Among the media that interviewed Rod about the history of cats are CBC Radio\u2019s weekend provincial shows (Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon), CBC Radio Ottawa \u201cOttawa Morning,\u201d CBC Radio Toronto \u201cOntario Morning,\u201d CFRB Toronto, the <em>National Post<\/em>, and the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CBC Vancouver \u201cNorth by Northwest\u201d interview is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-43-north-by-northwest\/clip\/16225784-rod-phillips-cats-a-history\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-43-north-by-northwest\/clip\/16225784-rod-phillips-cats-a-history<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rod also featured on a number of podcasts in Canada, the UK, and the US, such as Larry Rifkin\u2019s \u201cAmerica Trends\u201d (US), and on this session of the New Books Network (UK):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/cats\">https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/cats<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll also find him on blogs such as these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americareads.blogspot.com\/2026\/07\/pg-99-rod-phillipss-cats-history.html\">https:\/\/americareads.blogspot.com\/2026\/07\/pg-99-rod-phillipss-cats-history.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rorotoko.com\/micro-interviews\/20260712-roderick-phillips-cats-a-history-the-wide-angle\">https:\/\/www.rorotoko.com\/micro-interviews\/20260712-roderick-phillips-cats-a-history-the-wide-angle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rod also answered questions about the history of cats on the \u201cAsk Historians\u201d stream of the Portal for Public History on Reddit, where his session attracted 165,000 views:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/1u21wk2\/rod_phillips_answering_questions_about_the\/\">Rod Phillips answering questions about the history of cats<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/BronteCoogee\/\">u\/BronteCoogee<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/\">AskHistorians<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rod also continues to be interviewed on subjects associated with alcohol, especially the global decline in per capita consumption of alcohol. He was interviewed by CTV National News, the <em>National Post<\/em>, and CTV Saskatoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/roderick-phillips\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/roderick-phillips\/\">Professor Phillips<\/a> teaches a course on the history of alcohol at Carleton University (next session: Winter term 2027).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Phillips talks to media about cats and alcohol Professor Rod Phillips appeared in several media in June and early July. Most appearances related to his book, Cats: A History, which was published at the beginning of June by Johns Hopkins University Press: https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/books\/title\/12937\/cats &nbsp;Among the media that interviewed Rod about the history of cats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":27943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27945,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942\/revisions\/27945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}