Beyond Pages: A SUNY Press Podcast

Beyond Pages: A SUNY Press Podcast

episodes
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

March 8, 2026

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

Henry Sapoznik
Hosted by YIVO Institute

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author …

Hillary Rodrigues, "The Supreme Refuge: Durgā's Transformation Into the Hindu Great Goddess" (SUNY Press, 2025)

March 5, 2026

The Supreme Refuge

Hillary Rodrigues
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

The Supreme Refuge: Durgā's Transformation Into the Hindu Great Goddess (SUNY Press, 2025) provides the first comprehensive examination of the Hindu G…

Christopher Jain Miller and Cogen Bohanec, "Engaged Jainism: Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement" (SUNY Press, 2026)

January 8, 2026

Engaged Jainism

Christopher Jain Miller and Cogen Bohanec
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdi…

Timothy Gitzen, "Unscripting the Present" (SUNY Press, 2025)

December 9, 2025

Unscripting the Present

Timothy Gitzen
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

Timothy Gitzen's Unscripting the Present (SUNY Press, 2025) interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular c…

Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)

November 29, 2025

Searching for Ashoka

Nayanjot Lahiri
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
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Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand (SUNY Press, 2023) unravels t…

Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SUNY Press, 2025)

November 18, 2025

The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

Henry H. Sapoznik
Hosted by Robert Snyder

The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) by Henry H. Sapoznik explores a century of Yiddish popular culture in New York Ci…

Amy L. Allocco and Xenia Zeiler eds., "Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping Hindu Practices" (SUNY Press, 2025)

November 13, 2025

Sweetening and Intensification

Amy L. Allocco and Xenia Zeiler eds.
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping Hindu Practices (SUNY Press, 2025) explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contem…

Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)

October 18, 2025

Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York

Nancy Newman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk region …

Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, "Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland" (SUNY Press, 2025)

October 4, 2025

Music at World's End

Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland's modern classical music. In Iceland in the 1930s, classical musi…

Robert F. Carley, "Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice" (SUNY Press, 2019)

September 23, 2025

Culture and Tactics

Robert F. Carley
Hosted by Michael Rosino

While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Car…

Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)

September 6, 2025

Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography

Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Hosted by Amir Engel

Ofer Ashkenazi is a Professor of History and the director of the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusal…

Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)

September 2, 2025

Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy

Maddalena Cerrato

Michel Foucault's thought, Maddalena Cerrato writes, may be understood as practical philosophy. In this perspective, political analysis, philosophy of…

Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)

July 3, 2025

Disrupting Political Science

Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline SUNY Press, 2025 Angela K. Lewis-Maddox, editor Political Scientist Angela K. …

Carolyn Wolf-Gould et al., "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (SUNY Press, 2025)

June 13, 2025

A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States

Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, and Kyan Lynch
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States (SUNY Press, 2025) takes an empathic approach to an embattled subject. Sweeping in scope and de…

Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64" (SUNY Press, 2023)

June 12, 2025

An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64

Wendy Doniger
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Wendy Doniger’s An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963–64 (SUNY Press, 2023) is a memoir-style collection of letters and reflectio…

William Haldeman, "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America" (SUNY Press, 2024)

May 28, 2025

Meeting the Moment

William Haldeman
Hosted by Shu Wan

The histories presented in Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America (SUNY Press, 2024) are of a select group of…

Cora Lingling Xu, "The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China" (SUNY Press, 2025)

May 8, 2025

The Time Inheritors

Cora Lingling Xu
Hosted by Yadong Li

Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shap…

Benjamin Schrader, "Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War: Veteran Activism after War" (SUNY Press, 2019)

May 2, 2025

Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War

Benjamin Schrader
Hosted by John Armenta

While veterans are often talked about, in Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War: Veteran Activism after War (SUNY Press, 2019), Dr. …

Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)

April 10, 2025

The SāṃKhya System

Christopher Key Chapple
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real (SUNY Press, 2024) brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of phil…

Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)

March 7, 2025

Woodstock

Richard Heppner
Hosted by Garima Garg

Few towns in America are as famous as Woodstock, New York—although Woodstock may be most famous for an event that happened many miles away! Long befor…