Florida Press Podcast

Florida Press Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of the University Press of Florida books.

Pablo Alonso González, "Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation" (UP of Florida, 2018)

February 16, 2024

Cuban Cultural Heritage

Pablo Alonso González
Hosted by Katie Coldiron

Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation (UP of Florida, 2018) explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in …

Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)

October 25, 2023

The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo

Christopher P. Barton
Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey (UP of Florida, 2023) is the first book to examine the historic Black …

Jennifer Cearns, "Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange" (UP of Florida, 2023)

August 20, 2023

Circulating Culture

Jennifer Cearns
Hosted by Katie Coldiron

“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutati…

Carl Van Ness, "The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (UP of Florida, 2023)

August 17, 2023

The Making of Florida's Universities

Carl Van Ness
Hosted by Katie Coldiron
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In The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (UP of Florida, 2023), Carl Van Ness describes t…

Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

August 12, 2023

Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist

Ashley Robertson Preston
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women's organizations to cre…

Anthony Russell Jerry, "Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica" (UP of Florida, 2023)

July 26, 2023

Blackness in Mexico

Anthony Russell Jerry
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (UP o…

Judith Hicks Stiehm, "Janet Reno: A Life" (UP of Florida, 2023)

June 14, 2023

Janet Reno

Judith Hicks Stiehm
Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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In this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938–2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and unconv…

Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)

April 28, 2023

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

In To Tell a Black Story of Miami (UP of Florida, 2022), Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's …

Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette, "Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield" (UP of Florida, 2023)

March 10, 2023

Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War

Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette
Hosted by Philip Blood

Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette's Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield (UP of Flori…

Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)

December 18, 2022

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey

Sonya Y. Ramsey
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership (UP of Florida, 2022) examines a life of remarkable achievements and …

Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)

May 27, 2022

Home in Florida

Anjanette Delgado
Hosted by Minni Sawhney

Today I spoke to Anjanette Delgado, a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami who has compiled emblematic stories and essays by writers from…

Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite, "A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History Of 309" (UP of Florida, 2021)

October 18, 2021

A Punkhouse in the Deep South

Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen

Told in personal interviews, A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 (University Press of Florida, 2021) is the collective story of a p…

Michèle Hayeur Smith, "The Valkyries' Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic" (UP of Florida, 2020)

June 1, 2021

The Valkyries' Loom

Michèle Hayeur Smith

Marianne Hem Eriksen (Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester) speaks with Michèle Hayeur Smith (Resea…

Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice" (UP of Florida, 2020)

December 4, 2020

Pauulu's Diaspora

Quito J. Swan

Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020) by Quito Swan is an enchanting, magisterial, b…

Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)

December 6, 2019

Reconsidering Southern Labor History

Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt
Hosted by Beth English

Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of…

Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont" (UP of Florida, 2014)

October 4, 2019

When Tobacco Was King

Evan Bennett
Hosted by Beth English

Professor Evan Bennett of Florida Atlantic University, author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont (Univ…

Gregg Bocketti, "The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil" (UP of Florida, 2016)

May 31, 2019

The Invention of the Beautiful Game

Gregg Bocketti
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Gregg Bocketti, Professor of History at Transylvania University, and author of The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football an…

Jerry T. Watkins III, "Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism" (UP of Florida, 2018)

May 21, 2019

Queering the Redneck Riviera

Jerry T. Watkins III
Hosted by Isabel Machado

As the title suggests, Jerry T. Watkins III’s Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism (University Press of Florida, 20…

Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash" (UP of Florida, 2016)

January 7, 2019

Dirty Harry’s America

Joe Street
Hosted by Joel Tscherne

When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many o…

Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, "American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity" (UP of Florida, 2018)

December 12, 2018

American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity

Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, eds.
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran

As scholars and readers, we often view literary history in rigid, simplistic terms. We imagine that nineteenth-century aesthetic and thematic preoccup…