Georgetown University Press Podcast

Georgetown University Press Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of Georgetown University Press books.

Gudrun Persson, "Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

March 15, 2026

Russian Military Thought

Gudrun Persson

The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompas…

Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

January 11, 2026

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights

Heather Smith-Cannoy, Patricia C. Rodda, and Charles Anthony Smith
Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
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Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women a…

Magda Long et. al., "Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention (Georgetown UP, 2025)

December 9, 2025

Covert Action

Magda Long, Rory Cormac, Genevieve Lester, Mark Stout, Damien Van Puyvelde
Hosted by Luca Trenta

Covert action is generally understood as unacknowledged interference by one state in the affairs of another state or non-state actor to affect change.…

Ben Connable, "Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

August 23, 2025

Ground Combat

Ben Connable
Hosted by Leo Bader

Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War (Georgetown UP, 2025) reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenge…

Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

May 7, 2025

Ecological Moral Character

Nancy M. Rourke
Hosted by Sam Young

The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral characte…

Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

March 18, 2025

Watching the Jackals

Daniela Richterova

The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War…

Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

March 7, 2025

Patenting Life

Jorge Goldstein
Hosted by Drew Boxler

In this episode, Jorge Goldstein, the author of Patenting Life, delves into the critical junction where biotechnology meets patent law. With a backgro…

Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

February 20, 2025

Human Dignity and Liberal Politics

Patrick Riordan
Hosted by Sam Young

A deeply considered examination of the “common good” reconciling Catholic Social Thought with secular politics and philosophy. The Second Vatican C…

Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

August 20, 2024

Default

Gregory Makoff
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law. Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, n…

Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson, "Dirt Don't Burn: A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

May 27, 2024

Dirt Don't Burn

Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected ev…

Charles E. Curran, "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian" (Georgetown UP, 2006)

April 19, 2024

Loyal Dissent

Charles E. Curran
Hosted by Al Bertrand

Over the course of our 60th anniversary in 2024, we'll be revisiting some classic Georgetown books. First up is Loyal Dissent by Charles E. Curran. …

Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

March 26, 2024

The Russian FSB

Kevin P. Riehle

Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era…

Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

January 11, 2024

Grave History

Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle
Hosted by Julie Rugg

Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle’s edited collection Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries (University of Georgia Press, 2023), d…

Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

December 2, 2023

Well-Intentioned Whiteness

Chhaya Kolavalli
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how …

Indigenous DC: A Conversation with Elizabeth Rule

October 12, 2023

Indigenous DC

Elizabeth Rule
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Today’s book is Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s First Capital (Georgetown UP, 2023), by Dr. Elizabeth Rule, which is the first and full…

Christopher M. Bellitto, "Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

October 10, 2023

Humility

Christopher M. Bellitto
Hosted by Adrian Guiu
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This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility. History demonstrates that when the v…

Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

October 6, 2023

Bringing Home the White House

Melissa Estes Blair
Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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In Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century (U Georgia Press, 2023), Melissa Este…

Robert P. Watson, "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

October 5, 2023

When Washington Burned

Robert P. Watson
Hosted by AJ Woodhams
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Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington…

Jessica Hendry Nelson, "Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

September 25, 2023

Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief

Jessica Hendry Nelson
Hosted by Jana Byars
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Jessica Hendry Nelson, Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief (University of Georgia Press, 2023) is a compelling memoir in essays. When Nelson's fathe…

Robert F. Moss, "The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

September 12, 2023

The Lost Southern Chefs

Robert F. Moss
Hosted by Kelly Spivey
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In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been r…