The University of Arizona Press Podcast

The University of Arizona Press Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of the University of Arizona Press books.

Arely M. Zimmerman, "Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

May 3, 2026

Contentious Citizenship

Arely M. Zimmerman
Hosted by Mary Reynolds

Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders (U Arizona Press, 2026) reshapes how we understand belonging, identity, and …

Kasey Jernigan, "Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

April 19, 2026

Commod Bods

Kasey Jernigan
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

The term "commod bod" is used with humor and affection. It also offers a critical way to describe bodies shaped by long-term reliance on U.S. federal …

Gabriel S. Estrada, "Queer Indigenous Cinemas: Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

April 13, 2026

Queer Indigenous Cinemas

Gabriel S. Estrada
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbean…

Manuel Iris, "The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

March 16, 2026

The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos

Manuel Iris
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on ar…

Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

March 12, 2026

Mexico in Space

Anne W. Johnson
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

From Aztec sun stones to satellite launches, from muralist visions to dark sky parks, Mexico's engagement with outer space is fundamental to its ident…

Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

March 10, 2026

Forging a Mexican People

Pablo Zavala
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how illust…

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons, "The Sons of Gunshooter:  A Navajo Resistance Story" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

February 26, 2026

The Sons of Gunshooter

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons
Hosted by Mary Reynolds

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, part…

Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)

February 2, 2026

We Stay the Same

Jason Roberts
Hosted by Yadong Li

An ethnography of indigenous lives amidst subsistence labor, large-scale logging, and unrealized schemes, We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and …

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

February 2, 2026

Restless Ecologies

Allison Caine
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In the high Andean grasslands 4,500 meters above sea level, Quechua alpaca herders live on the edges of glaciers that have retreated more rapidly in t…

Ana Patricia Rodríguez, "Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area" (University of Arizona Press, 2025)

November 20, 2025

Avocado Dreams

Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Hosted by Mary Reynolds

For more than four generations, Salvadorans have made themselves at home in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and have transformed the re…

Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

October 28, 2025

Rooted in Place

Rick A López
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what …

A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia

October 27, 2025

A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia

K. G. Hutchins
Hosted by Maggie Freeman

As permafrost in Siberia continues to melt and the steppe in the Gobi turns to desert, people in Mongolia are faced with overlapping climate crises. S…

Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

October 26, 2025

Indigenizing Japan

Joe Watkins
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future (University of Arizona Press, 2025), archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look …

Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Anita Huízar-Hernández eds., "meXicana Roots and Routes: Listening to People, Places, and Pasts" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

September 30, 2025

MeXicana Roots and Routes

Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Anita Huízar-Hernández
Hosted by Mary Reynolds

Community voices are often an underrepresented aspect of our historical and cultural knowledge of the U.S. Southwest. In this episode, we sit down wit…

Enrique C. Ochoa, "México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

April 19, 2025

México Between Feast and Famine

Enrique C. Ochoa
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

As the birthplace of maize and a celebrated culinary destination, Mexico stands at the crossroads of gastronomic richness and stark social disparities…

Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

March 30, 2025

Savages and Citizens

Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (Unive…

Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)

August 9, 2024

Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities

Frederick Luis Aldama
Hosted by Jaime Sánchez

An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is b…

Stephen J. Pyne, "Pyrocene Park: A Journey Into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park" (U Arizona Press, 2023)

July 30, 2024

Pyrocene Park

Stephen J. Pyne
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

How is Yosemite National Park a microcosm for our warming, fire-driven, world? Arizona State University emeritus professor Stephen Pyne answers that…

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)

June 25, 2024

Growing Up in the Gutter

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics (U Arizona Press, 2024) by Dr. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo offers new understandings of contemporary graphi…

William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)

February 3, 2024

In the Arms of Saguaros

William L. Bird
Hosted by Daniel Moran

An essential—and monumental—member of the Sonoran Desert ecosystem, the saguaro cactus has become the quintessential icon of the American West. In th…