1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Authors Sarah Stroup and Wendy Wong discuss the impact of international nongovernmental organizations and how they influence the practices of states, corporations, and other NGOs.

Maria Belodubrovskaya, author of Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin, and Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins the 1869 podcast to chat about the Stalin's vision for a Soviet Hollywood and how it went wrong.

Author Fran Quigley discusses the problems with overpriced medicine and how we can all be a part of the change.

Johanna Neuman, Susan Goodier, and Karen Pastorello discuss their new books and the centennial of woman suffrage in New York State in this episode of 1869, the Cornell University Press podcast

Patrice McMahon, author of The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond joins 1869 host Martyn Beeny to discuss NGOs and their activity, relevance, and more.

Brandon Keim, author of The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World, discusses animal-human relationships, what we can learn from animals in how they adapt to the world around them, and much more.

Julia Azari talks about presidential mandates and the rhetoric they use once they are in power to convince us they have been empowered by the people who voted for them.

On this episode of 1869, the Cornell University Press podcast, Sean L. Malloy, author of Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War, discusses the Black Panthers, their use of the social media of the time, their impact on international politics, and lessons for social movement groups of today. Malloy is associate professor of history/critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Merced.

Greg Britton, editorial director at Johns Hopkins University Press, and Zach Gresham, editorial assistant at Vanderbilt University Press, join me to chat about the recent AAUP annual meeting in Austin, TX. Twitter, best ways to present, most interesting things learned about scholarly publishing, and much more!

Interview with Alan E. Bernstein, author of Hell and Its Rivals: Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages.

Jim Lance, senior acquisitions editor at Cornell University Press discusses the state of scholarly publishing, the things that excite him about his work, and much more.

Michael McGandy, editorial director of Three Hills, the new regional, trade imprint from Cornell University Press, chats about the imprint and why we're starting it.

Rosemary Vestal, Publicity Manager at University of Nebraska Press, joins us to discuss BookExpo and BookCon and what it means to publishers generally and university presses in particular.

A chat with Keith L. Bildstein, author of Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of Prey about these fascinating birds and their place in the world and our society.

1869 is the podcast of Cornell University Press. In episode 4, we chat with Gordon Lafer, author of The One Percent Solution: How Corporations are Remaking America One State at a Time. Lafer talks about the impact big business has on our daily lives and how so few people pay any attention to it because it happens at the state level and not the federal level. Visit cornellpress.cornell.edu or sagehouse.blog to find out more about this book and the others published by Cornell University Press.

In episode 3 of 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast we interview author and journalist Suzanne Gordon about veterans' health care and her new book The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare.

Interview with Glenn C. Altschuler, Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, in which we discuss his book, coauthored with Isaac Kramnick, Cornell: A History, 1940-2015.

Peter Conners, author of Cornell ’77: the Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall joins us. Peter has written extensively about music and counterculture, including his books Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, JAMerica: The History of the jam Band and Festival Scene, and White Hand Society: The Psychedlic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Peter lives in Rochester, New York, where is publisher of BOA Editions, Ltd.