1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

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/9781501775628/bounds-of-blackness/#bookTabs=1 Save 30% off the book with the Promo Code 09POD.

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, author of the new book The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970 and the other was Jake Newsome, author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Christopher Ewing is Assistant Professor at Purdue University. His research focuses on the intersections of queer history and the history of race in modern Germany. He has previously published in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Sexualities, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, and Sexu

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 Geneva Graduate Institute, the institution where he got his PhD in International History. We spoke to Vasilly about how the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan failed in large part due to the Soviets disregard for Islam; how this miscalculation was fueled by communist ideology; and, what parallel lessons the Soviet Union and the United States could have both learned from their occupations of Afghanistan.

Download the FREE ebook: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772634/the-nature-study-idea/ You can also save 30% off the print edition with promo code 09POD Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/xWNbdn02Wq4saEqPlItdUJd-LnM?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with John Linstrom, editor of the definitive new edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s The Nature-Study Idea. John Linstrom is Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at the Climate Museum, and coedited The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion. Liberty Hyde Bailey was Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University and Chair of the Commission on Country Life under President Theodore Roosevelt. A pioneer in modern horticulture and environmental philosophy, he was the author of more than seventy books. We spoke to John about how Liberty Hyde Bailey’s book became the bible of the nature-study movement; how his ideas completely transformed education around the country; and how we can use his inspiring ideas today to

Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773068/unraveling-the-gray-area-problem Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Ckmr71FCYKFkd5oDyV0oR2AV0v8?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Luke Griffith, author of the new book Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The United States and the INF Treaty. Luke Griffith is Professor of Government and History at New Mexico Junior College where he specializes in U.S. history, Western Civilization, and the American government. We spoke to Luke about his research on the US government’s role in the origins and the demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of December 1987; how President Reagan’s success in securing the agreement was made possible by earlier work in the Carter Administration; and, what has been the state of nuclear arms control after the U.S. withdrew from the Treaty in 2019.

Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772924/the-commander-in-chief-test/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/docHKI5gdBYX9FRBeKMaarObkes?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Jeffrey Friedman, author of the new book The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy. Jeffrey Friedman is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and his research examines the politics and psychology of foreign policy decision-making We spoke to Jeff about why U.S. presidents of both parties tend to adopt more hawkish foreign policies than voters say they want in public opinion surveys; what steps parties, candidates, and voters can take to prevent the commander-in-chief test from distorting US foreign policy; and how Jeff thinks the commander-in-chief test will play out in the upcoming presidential election.

Read the book (use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772320/faith-made-flesh/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/EQUorUn0cr-GH9JMXYTaJ-G_2Po?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with editors Vajra Watson and Kindra Montgomery-Block, as well as contributor Patrice Hill, all of whom worked together on the new book Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures Vajra M. Watson is Senior Associate Vice President and Professor of Education at Sacramento State University, Kindra F. Montgomery-Block is Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Social Impact for the Sacramento Kings, and Patrice Hill is a poet, public speaker, youth advocate, host, curator, community-based educator, and the current director of Sacramento Area Youth Speaks.

Learn about the new book here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771750/the-muriel-rukeyser-era/#bookTabs=1 Read the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/XqLGFhSLcHCvbI8HZPT3omPq7w8?utm_source=copy_url Eric Keenaghan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Queering Cold War Poetry. Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Associate Professor of gender studies and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women's writing at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Unfinished Spirit and editor of Rukeyser's Savage Coast. We spoke to Eric and Rowena about Muriel Rukeyser’s life and legacy, why much of her writing was actively suppressed during her time, and how reading Rukeyser’s prose helps us better understand her ideas, her career, and her poetry.

Learn more about The Black Woods here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771682/the-black-woods/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/bMcnVOvsG9riaiRRXpVI4fgaWf8?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Amy Godine, author of the new book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. From Saratoga Springs, New York, independent scholar Amy Godine has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history for more than three decades. She has curated several exhibits including Dreaming of Timbuctoo at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba, New York. We spoke to Amy about the history surrounding the gift of 120,000 acres of Adirondack land from upstate abolitionist Gerrit Smith to three thousand Black New Yorkers in the 1840s, the families who took Smith up on his offer and moved north to settle and farm in the Adirondacks, and how the very presence of these Black farming families

Learn more about the book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766657/the-made-up-state/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/O18-V2EdVKo5Rz5eblyrDU9DTM0?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. Benjamin Hegarty is McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne and a Research Fellow at the HIV AIDS Research Center for Health Policy and Social Innovation, Atma Jaya Catholic University. He has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. We spoke to Benjamin about the complexity of transgender rights during this time of growing visibility in the United States, Indonesia, and globally, the historical relationship in Indonesia between race and gender and how they were governed through regulations on dress and appearance, and the culturally sanctioned areas of public life that

Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772177/russian-liberalism Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/110CsGZ7M5iRsUm0ZhIMJ3FgzS8?utm_source=copy_url Paul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Russian Conservatism and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich. We spoke to Paul about what defines liberalism in the Russian context, why liberalism has historically failed to take root in Russia, and the impact the War in Ukraine may have on Russia’s potential political trajectory.

Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771262 Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/4zNwG4JyGYaMp0rhGC0XMtwN-xM?utm_source=copy_url Scott Meiners is Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. His research interests generally revolve around factors that influence the dynamics and regeneration of plant communities, and he is also interested in a wide variety of topics in community ecology. We spoke to Scott about the two species that are already functionally lost from Eastern North America’s forests—the American chestnut and the American elm—and why these trees serve as cautionary tales for the challenges now facing the eastern hemlock, the white ash, and the sugar maple today. We also discuss what we as citizens need to do to both individually and collectively to protect our forests’ future.

Learn more about the hotel workers' strike: https://www.unitehere11.org/2023-contract-fight/ Learn more about Joan Tronto: https://cla.umn.edu/polisci/news-events/news/professor-emerita-joan-tronto-receives-benjamin-e-lippincott-award-apsa Learn more about Who Cares?: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501702747/who-cares/#bookTabs=1 Read the written transcript for this episode: https://otter.ai/u/lgMMd-p1nwnHHauW3SpNSM3ZdrA?utm_source=copy_url

Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768484/everyday-war/ Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/8-ilVukZxmGKUwp2zhqWkg77sCA?utm_source=copy_url Dr. Greta Uehling is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, and is the author of a previous book Beyond Memory. Her new book seeks to tell the story of internal displacement in Ukraine in a way that is multivocal, and she uses the language of lived experience to take readers on a journey through Ukraine that deepens understanding and solidarity. We spoke to Greta about why our conventional understanding of war is incomplete, the importance of examining wars through the lenses of interpersonal relationships, and the concept of what she calls everyday war, the conscious and deliberate practice people adopt to participate in the conflict.

Learn about the book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501770753 Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/bxA9mDpa8yE0XM1g_j9ZSgFqOA0?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Asaf Darr, author of the new book Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace. Asaf Darr is Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa where he specializes in researching the sociology of markets; technology, work organization, and the technical workforce; and, inter-ethnic relations at work in war-torn countries. Asaf is author of an earlier Cornell book, Selling Technology. We spoke to Asaf about how the broader conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in Israel manifests itself in the workplace, what workplace lessons citizens in other countries can learn from his research, and the very surprising and counter-intuitive findings he discovered about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to managing conflict in the workplace. You can purchase the affordabl

Download the free OA ebook: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769023/ecological-states/#bookTabs=1 Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/60p3mmvvIkX1AwQjq7F6O2_eoR4?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Jesse Rodenbiker, author of the new book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China. It’s available as a free OA ebook – download it from our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Jesse Rodenbiker is Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University with the Department of Geography. We spoke to Jesse about China’s urban sustainability efforts and how they are increasing both state power and social inequality in China, the seminal ideas that shaped the field of ecology in China over the past one-hundred years, and the potential lessons that western nations can learn from China’s ecological init

Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Judgment and Mercy: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768521/judgment-and-mercy/#bookTabs=1 Read the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/uUDuXKCSNuQrwHnYzofXBg5k9RE?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Martin Siegel, author of Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs. Martin J. Siegel practices and teaches law in Houston. After clerking for Judge Kaufman, he served as an Assistant US Attorney in Manhattan and on the staff of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, and legal journals. As we mark the 70th anniversary of the Rosenberg executions, we spoke to Martin about their story ,as well as that of the young and ambitious judge who sentenced them to death – Judge Irving Robert Kaufman. We learn that in the decades after that fateful decision, Judge Kaufman transformed into one of the most progressiv

Save 30% off Vanishing Point with promo code 09POD: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769641/vanishing-point/#bookTabs=1 Read the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/1Ttq9mIb8d3Ox19adAQVAaQGRzk?utm_source=copy_url

Learn about Boas of the West Indies: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765452/boas-of-the-west-indies/#bookTabs=1 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/3JA4ImNEDi8KJNpbLofa90KHtY0?utm_source=copy_url This episode, we speak with Graham Reynolds, co-author of the new book Boas of the West Indies: Evolution, Natural History, and Conservation. Graham’s co-authors of the new book are Robert W. Henderson, Luis M. Díaz, Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera and Alberto Puente-Rolón. Graham Reynolds is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina Asheville, an Associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and a National Geographic Explorer. He is coeditor of The Amphibians of Tennessee and The Reptiles of Tennessee. You can follow him on Twitter @CaribbeanBoas. We spoke to Graham about how he and his fellow researchers and co-authors have helped to significantly increase the level of knowledge and understanding of the biology of boas in the West Indies, how they ho

Learn more about the book (Use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768118/nature-on-the-doorstep/#bookTabs=0 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/1GGhMmvlb95p6aEODStvAwq8s90?utm_source=copy_url This episode, we speak with Angela Douglas, author of the new book Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters. Angela Douglas is Emerita Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Symbiotic Interactions, Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes, and Fundamentals of Microbiome Science. We spoke to Angela about how a patch of green space, however ordinary, is a perfect place to enjoy the natural world, why you don’t need to be an expert or travel long distances to experience real nature, and why a little bit of neglect is the best way to create a wildlife-friendly backyard. If you’d like to purchase Angela’s new book, use the promo code 09POD to save 30 percent on our website: