1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

CUP Senior Editor & Three Hills Editorial Director Michael McGandy joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Philadelphia for the 2018 SHAFR Annual Meeting: https://shafr.org/sites/default/files/shafr_18_final.pdf If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Michael, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 United States His...

ILR Press Editorial Director Fran Benson joins us to tell us about her upcoming trip to the LERA 70th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this June 14-17th: https://www.leraweb.org/70th-lera-anl-mtg If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Fran, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 ILR Press catalog. (Receive 30% off an...

Author David Schuyler joins us to talk about his new book Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism, and his book talk on June 14th at the Hudson River Valley Institute: http://www.marist.edu/publicaffairs/2018-06-04-hrvi-lecture-david-schuyler.html David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Sc...

CUP Senior Editor & Three Hills Editorial Director Michael McGandy joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Williamsburg, Virginia for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Omohundro Institute Conference. http://oieahc-cf.wm.edu/conferences/ If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Michael, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 U...

Cornell is launching a new series, Histories and Cultures of Tourism, and Series Editor Eric Zuelow joins us to discuss what it is all about. We discuss the history of the field of tourism studies, seminal books in the field and what he and CUP Senior Editor Emily Andrew are looking for in regards to prospective projects. Along the way we also discuss Volkswagen Beetles, Roman graffiti, and Cornel...

CUP Marketing Director Martyn Beeny joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Book Expo 2018: http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/ If you are at Book Expo this year, please do stop by Booth 3064 and say hello to Martyn, pick up advance copies of our Fall/Winter books (including one by John Cleese), and receive some choice CUP swag.

Author Jerry Jenkins joins us to talk about his two new guides from Comstock Publishing – Woody Plants of the Northern Forest - featured as both a beautiful 10 x 11 Photographic Guide, and also in more portable form as two Quick Guides – weather-resistant double-sided photographic charts that fold out to 26 x 36 inches. Jerry Jenkins directs the Northern Forest Atlas Project and is a researcher fo...

Host Martyn Beeny chats with Romi Gutierrez, associate director and director of sales and marketing at University Press of Florida about metadata, metrics, content marketing, influencers, local marketing, successful marketing, and the end of the book review!

CUP Editor in Chief Mahinder Kingra joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Kalamazoo for the International Congress on Medieval Studies. If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Mahinder, look at our new books, and pick up copies of our 2018 Medieval Studies catalog and sampler. The electronic versions of our catalog and sampler can be viewed via the fo...

Author Julia Cassaniti joins us to talk about her book, Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Julia Cassaniti is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. Her previous Cornell book, Living Buddhism, won the Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Use code 09POD to save...

Author Jonathan Karmel joins us to talk about his book, Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace. For more than 30 years Jon has represented workers and labor unions and their benefit funds throughout the midwest in the federal courts and before the NLRB, Department of Labor, and EEOC among others agencies. Jon is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is the...

Author Tim Wendel joins us to talk about his book, Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia. A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, Tim Wendel is the author of Summer of ’68, Castro’s Curveball, and High Heat, which was an Editor’s Choice selection by The New York Times Book Review. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order di...

Author Daniel Bessner joins us to talk about his book, Democrary in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell Univer...

Poet, visual artist, oral historian and licensed electrician Susan Eisenberg joins us to talk about her new collection of poetry, Stanley's Girl. Susan Eisenberg is Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. Visit susaneisenberg.com for more information. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpres...

On Episode 2, host Martyn Beeny chats with Carrie Olivia Adams, a freelance publicist, about book marketing, the future of publicity, the NY Times and NPR, blurbs, and more.

In this episode we chat with Sarah Grossman, Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Publications Managing Editor, about her experiences at the recent Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Washington, DC.

Coline Jenkins joins us to discuss her family's, and her own, pioneering work in promoting women's rights. The great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Coline is a legislator, author and television producer. Through the years, she has used her talents to inspire both awareness and pride in women's history.

Author Julie Chernov Hwang joins us to talk about her book, Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists. Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations at Goucher College. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484390

First episode of the new spin-off podcast series, Sage Marketing, in which host Martyn Beeny chats book marketing with Dennis Johnson, co-owner and co-publisher of Melville House.

Author Danna Agmon joins us to talk about her book, A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India, as well as her Twitter Party on February 27. Agmon is Assistant Professor of History and ASPECT at Virginia Tech. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100368870

Author Darryl Jones joins Martyn Beeny to chat about his new book, The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters.

Michael Roux, Marketing and Sales Manager at University of Illinois Press, joins Martyn Beeny to chat about marketing books to the scholarly community and beyond.

Authors Sharon Batt and Fran Quigley discuss the cost of medicines in the wake of President Trump's State of the Union address.

University of Nebraska Press Publicity Manager Rosemary Sekora chats with Martyn Beeny about book marketing, book publicity, and all things connected.

In this episode we chat with Emily Andrew, Senior Acquisitions Editor, and Bethany Wasik, Assistant Editor, about their experiences at the recent American Historical Association annual conference in Washington DC.