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Behind the Cover with Indiana University Press
Interviews with authors of Indiana University Press books.
March 15, 2026
Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana
In Ghana, much as in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the establishment of affordable hydroel…
February 28, 2026
Slave Owners of West Africa
In today's podcast we talked to Dr. Sandra Greene about her book Slave Owners of West Africa. Decision Making in the Age of Abolition published in 201…
February 27, 2026
The Shtetl
Even those who do not know much Yiddish have probably heard the word “shtetl,” but what does that word mean exactly? Can we just say that it was a sma…
January 30, 2026
The Youngest Yugoslavs
The Youngest Yugoslavs: An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory (Indiana UP, 2025) gathers interviews with members of the last generation to experien…
January 14, 2026
Deep Cosmopolitanism
Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India explores the extraordinary past and present of Kutiyatt…
January 12, 2026
Jewish Books in North Africa
Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds (Indiana University Press, 2025) delves into the multifaceted significance of…
December 16, 2025
Caught in the Crosshairs
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream aud…
November 15, 2025
The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey
From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practic…
September 30, 2025
The New Yugoslav Woman
From 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex educatio…
September 27, 2025
Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland
In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Indiana University Press, 2019), Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic…
August 20, 2025
100 Jewish Brides
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World (Indiana UP, 2024), is the result of a collaboration between two sociologists, Professor Shulamit Rei…
July 20, 2025
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Alex J. Kay (senior lecturer in History at the University of Potsdam) and David Stahel (senior lecturer in History at the University of New South Wale…
July 15, 2025
Staging Tianxia
How can art shape historical memory and national identity? And how can cultural heritage and historical references be used to enact a vision of a nati…
June 19, 2025
Independent Africa
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders (Indiana UP, 2023)explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of ind…
March 9, 2025
Fantasmic Objects
In Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 (Indiana UP, 2022), Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in Le…
January 17, 2025
Taking Funny Music Seriously
Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, ser…
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…
October 25, 2024
Win or Else
In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture…
September 14, 2024
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas
Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather moved from Morocco to Venezuela, sent his son bac…
August 17, 2024
Rethinking Geopolitics
Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has change…