1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

This episode we speak with Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, author of the new book Violating Peace: Sex, Aid, and Peacekeeping - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748059/violating-peace/ Jasmine-Kim Westendorf is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University, Australia, and a Research Associate at the Developmental Leadership Program. She is author of Why Peace Processes Fail. Follow her on Twitter @jasminekimw. We spoke to Jasmine-Kim about the consolidated data that she has collected in her book showing that sexual exploitation and abuse has happened in every peace operation and every peacebuilding process that the international community has been involved in, and that it continues to happen to this day. This ongoing sexual misconduct has significant and long-term impacts on the capacity and credibility of the international community involved in peacekeeping, and Jasmine-Kim’s new book offers concrete policy suggestions that more effectively address this phenomenon in future peac

This episode we speak with Ray Brescia, author of the new book The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748110/the-future-of-change/ Ray Brescia is the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law & Technology and a Professor of Law at Albany Law School. Before, he was a lawyer and community organizer in New York City, working in Harlem, Washington Heights, the South Bronx, and Chinatown to promote housing rights, worker rights, and economic development. He has held positions at the Urban Justice Center, the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, and the Legal Aid Society of New York, where he was a Skadden Fellow, and as a law clerk to the Hon. Constance Baker Motley, United States District Court Judge. Follow him on Twitter: @rbrescia We spoke to Ray about how new means of communication have sparked social movements, the many “social innovation moments” found throughout history, and how social change activism can become more effective by lea

This episode we speak with Richard W. Maass, author of the new book The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748752/the-picky-eagle/#bookTabs=2 Richard W. Maass is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Evansville. Follow him on Twitter @richardmaass. We spoke to Richard about why the United States stopped annexing territory, and why U.S leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for annexation due to xenophobia and overtly racist rationales fearing that new territory would bring into the United States large populations they saw as alien in terms of race, ethnicity, language, or religion. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

This episode we speak with Melissa M. Lee, author of the new book Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748363/crippling-leviathan Melissa M. Lee is Assistant Professor of Political and International Affairs at Princeton University. Visit her website at melissamlee.com. We spoke to Melissa about the problem of ungoverned space–pockets of territory outside the control of the central government; why ungoverned space is a consequence of foreign subversion; and the impressive array of evidence demonstrating how foreign subversion undermines state authority and impedes state consolidation. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

This episode we speak with Mary Brazelton, author of the new book Mass Vaccination: Citizen’s Bodies and State Power in Modern China - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501739989/mass-vaccination/ Mary Augusta Brazelton is University Lecturer in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. We spoke to Mary about the striking parallels between China’s success in eradicating smallpox and their current efforts in combating COVID-19—the systems of surveillance and intervention that China developed to implement and monitor vaccinations have created increasingly effective strategies to control epidemics, demonstrated most recently in the coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUN

This episode we speak with Cecilia Gaposchkin and Anne Lester, editors of our exciting new series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/series/medieval-societies-religions-and-cultures/ Sign up here to get updates on new books in this series and all of our new books in medieval studies: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/sign-up/ M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctiity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages and Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology, among others. Anne E. Lester holds the John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Chair in Medieval History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne.

This episode we speak with Mila Dragojević, author of the new book Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501739828/amoral-communities/#bookTabs=2 Mila Dragojević is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of the South. She is the author of The Politics of Social Ties. We spoke to Mila about what inspired her to write her new book, how it is possible for peaceful places to suddenly transform into areas of unspeakable violence, and why we should listen more closely to those who have lived through such experiences so that we can potentially avoid similar violence in the future. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

This episode we speak with Taomo Zhou, author of the new book Migration in the Time of Revolution: China Indonesia, and the Cold War - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501739934/migration-in-the-time-of-revolution/ Taomo Zhou is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. We spoke to Taomo about why the close partnership between Indonesia and China started unraveling in the mid 1960s, what this meant to ethnic Chinese living in Indonesia, and how newly available sources from China prove that it is highly unlikely that Mao Zedong dictated the behavior of Indonesian communist leaders as was assumed at the time. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

This episode we speak with Jun Zhang, author of the new book Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501738401/driving-toward-modernity/#bookTabs=1 Jun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. We spoke to Jun about what it is like to be the first person in your family to ever own a car, the massive increase of cars, and car owners, within China over the past two decades, and how the Chinese, particularly the middle class, have thrived as well as struggled with this unprecedented influx of new automobiles into the country. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

This episode we speak with John Farnsworth, author of the new book Nature beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501747281/nature-beyond-solitude/#bookTabs=1 A lifelong student of literary natural history, John Farnsworth taught environmental writing and literature at Santa Clara University. He is author of Coves of Departure, also from Cornell. We spoke to John about his positive experiences at six different field stations along the West coast, why in nature it’s hard to see what you are not seeing, and why he believes we are now entering into a golden age of natural history. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on John's new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

We're hiring for our next Mellon Diversity Fellow! Please apply at the Working at Cornell website: https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerPage/job/Ithaca-Main-Campus/Mellon-Diversity-Fellow----Acquisitions-Assistant_WDR-00022497-1 The deadline for applications is March 14, 2020, so act now! Alexis's contact information can be found here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/contact/acquisitions/ and other current Mellon Fellows can be found at this link: http://www.aupresses.org/about-aaup/board-of-directors/presidential-talks-archive/1776-conrad-2019

This episode we speak with Sara Lewis, author of the new book Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501715358/spacious-minds/ Sara E. Lewis is Associate Professor of Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University. You can follow her on Twitter @DeathRebirthLab. We spoke to Sara about what inspired her to write her new book, how Tibetan Buddhists treat trauma differently than Western psychologists, and the ways in which her research will help shake up the field. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receive your discount please go to cornellpress.cornell.edu and use the promo code 09POD. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit the website combinedacademic.co.uk.

This episode we are joined by our Editor in Chief Mahinder Kingra who will be attending the 2020 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle this January 9th through the 12th. We spoke with him a few days before his trip.

This episode we are joined by Three Hills Editorial Director Michael McGandy, Senior Editor Emily Andrew and Acquisitions Assistant Alexis Siemon. They will all be attending the American Historical Association annual meeting this January 3rd-6th in New York City. We spoke to them in Ithaca as they were prepping for the meeting.

This episode we are joined by Assistant Editor Bethany Wasik and Acquisitions Assistant Ellen Murphy. They will both be attending the Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)and the Society for Classical Studies(SCS)which is taking place in Washington, D.C., January 2–5, 2020.

Cornell University Press's Sage House is haunted. Listen to Data Processing Manager Patrick Garrison recount his experience with potential paranormal activity at Sage House this past summer. Music by CO.AG Music

Cornell University Press's Sage House is haunted. Listen to Senior Acquisitions Editor Jim Lance recount his experience with a real ghost early one winter morning. Music by CO.AG Music

Trascript here: https://otter.ai/u/3woF9NXmQKFjm3Jh3UI66OcDHgk This episode we speak with Brandon Schechter, author of the new book The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501739798/the-stuff-of-soldiers/ Brandon Schechter is a historian of the Soviet Union whose research focuses on the creation of meaning in times of crisis. In addition to his new book, he has published essays on the integration of national minorities and women into the Red Army, the moral economy of rationing, property relations under Stalinism and how objects can narrate lived experience. He served as Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at NYU, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center, visiting assistant professor at Brown, and Fulbright IIE fellow. Schechter is currently an adjunct at Columbia University. This spring he will co-teach a graduate level course on Russia at War with Anne Lounsbery at NYU. We spoke to Brandon about why

This episode we speak with Vince Houghton, author of the new book The Nuclear Spies: America’s Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin. Follow Vince at @intelhistorian Vince Houghton is Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum. He taught courses in Cold War history and intelligence history at the University of Maryland and is the host and creative director of Spycast, the Spy Museum's popular podcast. His work has been published widely in such media as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Economist, Vanity Fair, and many others. We spoke to Vince Houghton about why the US government was unable to create an effective intelligence system to monitor the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities, what were some of the incorrect assumptions Americans made about Soviet science, and what were the strategic repercussions of these errors for the US as the Cold War deepened. As a loyal listener to the podcast we’d like to offer you a special 30% discount on her new book. To receiv

This episode we speak with John Stempien and John Linstrom, editors of the new book The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion: Essential Writings. John Stempien teaches history in Lowell, Michigan, and served as the first director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum from 2006–2012. John Linstrom is a writer and doctoral candidate in English. He edited the centennial edition of Bailey's The Holy Earth. Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) grew up on a farm in Michigan and went on to become Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University, and Chair of the Country Life Commission under President Theodore Roosevelt. Considered the "Father of Modern Horticulture” Bailey authored more than seventy books, published thousands of articles, and founded countless organizations. We spoke to John Stempien and John Linstrom about Liberty Hyde Bailey’s legacy, how they both became interested in his work and writings, Bailey’s philosophy of what he called “garden sentiment” and the valuable lessons that Liberty Hyd