Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on The Spirit of Socialism: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781513/the-spirit-of-socialism/ Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/OGLO8fW9hDnmYeR2CzmGMZ5lNEo?utm_source=copy_url Joseph Kellner is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union at the University of Georgia. We spoke to Joseph about why the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in a dramatic increase in spiritual seeking by the mainstream population, the many colorful and memorable spiritual l...
Jun 26, 2025•31 min
Read Borders in Red for FREE! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780554/borders-in-red/#bookTabs=1 Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/3ndhPn4qPVQKBrbos5QrSp41j_8?utm_source=copy_url Stephan Rindlisbacher is a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). We spoke to Stephan about how his new book, the first comprehensive look into how the border between Russia and Ukraine was drawn, helps us better understand today’s current conflict between the two nati...
Jun 16, 2025•26 min
Learn more about Startup Capitalism (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781391/startup-capitalism/ Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Tmx6NA_VRaCB-WSUO1lIHbWfO9c?utm_source=copy_url Robyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School, King's College London. Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King's College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance ...
May 22, 2025•35 min
Learn more about Welcome to Soylandia (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780233/welcome-to-soylandia Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/8TCrPkBnKy2b52Fo2o7NCxkmKfE?utm_source=copy_url Andrew Ofstehage is Program Coordinator of the Global Academy at North Carolina State University. We spoke to Andrew about his research into a group of US Midwest farmers who now farm in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, the innovative use of flexible farming ...
May 14, 2025•27 min
Learn more about Bad Christians and Hanging Toads (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779718/bad-christians-and-hanging-toads/ Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/CnB_Cc_KV636TZN-ChfDW0A8OGw?utm_source=copy_url Rochelle Rojas is Assistant Professor of History at Kalamazoo College. We spoke to Rochelle about the inner logic of early modern European witchcraft trials, how accused witches were able to prove they were good, and not bad, Christians, and...
May 01, 2025•22 min
Read Bad Lieutenants for FREE here: (use promo code 09POD to save 30% on the print edition): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781025/bad-lieutenants/#bookTabs=1 Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/a8G8EDW_TZoMrgdZUjox_q2LKt4?utm_source=copy_url Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies and Director of the School of Advanced International Studies China Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of three other books from Cornell University...
Apr 22, 2025•31 min
Learn more about The Marlin's Fiery Eye and Other Tales from the Extraordinary World of Marine Fishes (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779442/the-marlins-fiery-eye-and-other-tales-from-the-extraordinary-world-of-marine-fishes/#bookTabs=1 Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/i-YdpPrFoX17S5AGbb6rguNuXVk?utm_source=copy_url Joe E. Meisel is a biologist, a conservationist, and an educator. He is a cofounder of the Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conser...
Apr 02, 2025•32 min
Learn more about Filming in European Cities (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779985/filming-in-european-cities/#bookTabs=1 Ipek Celik Rappas is Associate Professor in Media and Visual Arts at Koç University, Istanbul. Her research explores media and marginalized communities in Europe, and the relationship between media labor, production, and space. She is the author of In Permanent Crisis. We spoke to Ipek about why and how television ...
Apr 01, 2025•25 min
Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Postal Intelligence here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779930/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=1 Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Postal Intelligence: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779923/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=1 In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501779923/postal-intelligence/ Rachel Midura is Assistant Professor of Early Modern European and Digita...
Mar 14, 2025•26 min
Learn more about The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779350/the-mongol-archive-in-late-medieval-france/#bookTabs=1 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/DpQJjWenDkr-igT1sysHk231FD4?utm_source=copy_url Mark Cruse is Associate Professor of French at Arizona State University. His books, include, as author, Illuminating the "Roman d'Alexandre" and, as editor Performance and Theatricality in the Middle ...
Mar 12, 2025•29 min
Learn more about Homo Temporalis (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779565/homo-temporalis/#bookTabs=1 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/_Mgs3D1W3XxriagGe4E6Sy-7nEg?utm_source=copy_url Nitzan Lebovic is Professor of History and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University. He is the author of The Philosophy of Life and Death and Zionism and Melancholy and the coeditor of two volumes, including The Politics o...
Mar 04, 2025•31 min
Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779206/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/#bookTabs=1 Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779190/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/#bookTabs=1 In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501779190/reima...
Feb 25, 2025•31 min
Welcome to the eighth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Osaka University professor Kazushi Minami about his new book People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War Download and read the book for free: htt...
Feb 12, 2025•53 min
Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Women of the Mafia: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/ In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/66ZHk_WmYWFLUANWFtixUAe64Sc?utm_source=copy_url Felia Allum is Professor in the department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath (UK). Her research focuses on organized crime, Italian...
Jan 27, 2025•31 min
Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Burying Mussolini, https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778285/burying-mussolini/ and Animal People: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779640/animal-people/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/tc5iDpv5sFvw71D1UPyWU0F4ekw?utm_source=copy_url Paolo Heywood and Adam Reed discuss the common theme in each of their books centering around the power of ideas about ordinariness and normality in contemporary politics. We hope you enjoy their c...
Jan 09, 2025•34 min
Welcome to the seventh episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Michigan State University professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Selwyn College, University of Cambridge research fellow Tom Smith about his new book Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histor...
Dec 12, 2024•40 min
Learn about Unstuck in Time here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777899/unstuck-in-time/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/xLkSlsXBJKcP_0l4RGqFztFfcpQ?utm_source=copy_url&tab=chat&view=transcript In this episode, we speak with Eliot Borenstein, author of the new book Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny. Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Vice Chancellor for Global Programs at New York Universi...
Dec 05, 2024•21 min
Learn about Timing the Future Metropolis here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778391/timing-the-future-metropolis/#bookTabs=1 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/s2IqBx8SSmwfPTUZHjSWmc5eHBA?utm_source=copy_url&tab=chat&view=transcript In this episode, we speak with Peter Ekman, author of the new book Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism. Peter Ekman teaches the history and theory of lands...
Nov 25, 2024•32 min
Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9gCI6cjm-RQ?si=a6NewEJVEQIycptu This episode of author2author features Jeff Friednman, author of The Commander-in-Chief Test, and Steve Wagner, author of Eisenhower for Our Time, providing the perfect scene-setting of how we got to our political reality in the lead up to the 2024 election. Click below to hear them discuss how presidents use foreign policy to their advantage, the divisiveness in American politics, and President Eisenhower’s influence o...
Oct 15, 2024•39 min
Learn more about The Waiting Water here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777103/the-waiting-water/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/9ViJleOJojtPvz1hresS5aiMzok?tab=chat&view=transcript In this episode, we speak with Alexander Sorenson, author of the new book The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism. Alexander Sorenson is Lecturer of German and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New...
Sep 30, 2024•30 min
Learn more about The City is Ours here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776373/the-city-is-ours/ In this episode, we speak with Muna Güvenç, author of the new book The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey. Muna Güvenç is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. Her research interests encompass social movements, minority politics, urbanism, and architecture in the Middle East and beyond. Prior to ...
Sep 05, 2024•28 min
Learn more about Disruption here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774119/disruption/#bookTabs=0 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/AYwGHof_RZb3H_x32SO6bo1BjXQ?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Michael De Groot, author of the new book Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War. Michael De Groot is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington where he teaches and re...
Aug 08, 2024•27 min
Welcome to the sixth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features UC Irvine professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Harvey Mudd College professor Alfred Peredo Flores about his recent book Tip of the Spear— https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771347/tip-of-the-spear/#bookTabs=0 Save 30% off the book with the Prom...
Jul 18, 2024•31 min
Hear an incredible conversation between historical novelists Tim Wendel, author of Rebel Falls, and Brian Carso, author of Gideon’s Revolution. Listen to them discuss their research processes, fictionalizing real events, and the importance of historical fiction in today’s increasingly polarized world. Buy Gideon’s Revolution: https://qrco.de/bew7Sg More on Brian Carso: https://briancarso.com Buy Rebel Falls: https://qrco.de/bevT5Z More on Tim Wendel: https://timwendel.com Transcript available he...
Jul 01, 2024•34 min
Learn more about What Work Means here (and use 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501775512/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/wz7ZAx9DLou7RUlouoLjz1S3shI?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Claudia Strauss, author of the new book What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic. Claudia Strauss is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Pitzer College. She is the author of Making Sense of Public Opinion and coauthor of A Cognitive Theory of Cultur...
Jun 20, 2024•32 min
Welcome to the fifth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Michigan State University professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Emory & Henry College professor Matthew Shannon about his new book, Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century— https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781...
Jun 05, 2024•50 min
Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774683/liminal-minorities/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/tysBjMaA_aPb7lhGtZyREw9ZFto?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Güneş Murat Tezcür, author of the new book Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies. Güneş Murat Tezcür is the Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He ...
May 21, 2024•24 min
Welcome to the fourth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with University of Washington professor Christopher Tounsel about his new book, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/97...
May 08, 2024•46 min
Learn more about the books (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773365/the-color-of-desire/ https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765155/pink-triangle-legacies/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/_EFsZxQPv5zbCURy-99A4uFVSQY?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we brought together two Cornell University Press authors in the hopes they would have a lively discussion and they certainly delivered. One was Christopher Ewing, auth...
Mar 14, 2024•38 min
Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773808/a-slow-reckoning/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/_ZDbUEgeMZgs_eaXLmNJzs8oWVI?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Vasilly Klimentov, author of the new book, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists and Islam. Vassily Klimentov is a SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a Research Associate at the Gene...
Feb 27, 2024•27 min
