Penn State Anthropology Professor Guest on “The Colbert Report,” Wednesday, February 28.
Nina Jablonski, Penn State professor and department head of anthropology appeared on “The Colbert Report,” on February 28, 2007.
Jablonski discussed her new book, Skin: A Natural History, with Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report.”
A spinoff and counterpart of The Daily Show, a parody of a news show, “The Colbert Report” features Colbert as a fake right-wing political pundit. He features a wide variety of guests on his show which has included well-known actors, authors, political personalities, and others.
Jablonski's appearance on “The Colbert Report” came at a time that her book was attracting the attention of the New York Times, Atlantic Magazine, and other major publications. Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, has said of Skin, “Nina Jablonski gives us the best account of everything you might want to know about the packaging of our anatomy.”
Before coming to Penn State, Nina Jablonski was Irvine Chair and Curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. She edited The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World and The Origin and Diversification of Language (both UC Press), among other books. Her research on human skin has been featured in National Geographic, Scientific American, and other publications.