# Natalia Mehlman
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natalia mehlman Petrzela is an American historian, specializing in the politics and culture of the modern United States. She is a professor of history at The New School. Petrzela is also a history communicator who frequently writes pieces about American history in popular media outlets, co-hosts the Past Present podcast, and has created or been featured in educational videos for The History Channel and C-SPAN.
== Education and positions ==
Petrzela attended Columbia University, graduating with a BA degree in history in 2000.
Muscle Men: 3. Get Ripped. Quick
Prior to the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas Venezuela, the issue of sports doping was largely flying under the American public’s radar. But when 19 athletes are found positive for using banned substances at the games, steroids are thrust into focus. And a stigma starts to grow.
At the same tim…
Muscle Men: 4. Perfect Square Pecs
In the lobby of Caesar’s Palace Hotel in Las Vegas there’s a modern-day shrine to a 2000 year old adonis - complete with perfectly square pecs. Michelangelo’s David. 17 feet of white marble beefcake. This is an ideal that bodybuilders can only aspire to. And in the 80s bodybuilding scene, a particu…
Muscle Men: 5. The A Team
Nobody gets arrested for dealing anabolic steroids. That’s the assumption bodybuilder Dan Duchaine, William Dillon and their fellow ring-members are relying upon, as they build the biggest steroid trafficking operation in America. But that’s all about to change.
As President Ronald Reagan’s War on…
Muscle Men: 6. One Last Hit
In the summer of 1986, bodybuilder William Dillon moves to San Diego to leave his steroid dealing days behind him, and live a quiet life of working out and running a gym. Or at least - that’s the plan. When Dillon’s old life comes calling, with the promise of easy money, it’s hard to resist.
Dillon…
Muscle Men: 7. French Fries or Bust
When bodybuilder William Dillon moved to LA, he dreamed of getting rich quick by selling the promise of big muscles in a bottle. But in the spring of 1987, that dream has come crashing down around him. With the authorities closing in on the steroid dealing ring, and fearing for his life, it’s time …
Muscle Men: 8. The Genie Is Out
In the wake of the steroid ring’s downfall, the headline-grabbing prosecutions combine with sports scandals and anxieties about steroids making it into high school locker rooms. Lawmakers decide to take action. The Steroid Control Act of 1990, spearheaded by none other than then-Senator Joe Biden, …
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, historian & podcaster
Historian NATALIA MEHLMAN PETRZELA runs through the five tracks she will meet in Hell.
Quite aside from being a Professor of History at the New School, Natalia is the author of two books: Classroom Wars, and Fit Nation, the latter of which takes a fascinating look at the history of exercise as leis…
December 13th: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Season one of Hellish may be over, but we are not quite done with you yet. Every day of December we will be bringing back former damned souls to add one more song to their Infernal Playlists: a Christmas song they cannot stand.
In this episode, we welcome back historian and podcaster NATALIA MEHLMA…
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