Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast

Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of University of California Press books.

Matthew Thomas Miller, "Feeling like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism" (U California Press, 2026)

August 28, 2026

Feeling Like Lovers

Matthew Thomas Miller
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier

Matthew Thomas Miller's new book Feeling like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism (U California Press, 2026), and is available as an open access book (s…

Shelly Lundberg "How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2026)

August 25, 2026

How Economics Discovered Women

Shelly Lundberg
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The resu…

Mulholland Drive at 25: Film Quarterly

August 21, 2026

Mulholland Drive at 25

Eileen G’Sell Hosted by J. M. Tyree
Hosted by J. M. Tyree

In this episode, J. M. Tyree, the editor of Film Quarterly discusses a dossier of articles about David’s Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive on its 25th ann…

Nancy Folbre, "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First" (U California Press, 2026)

August 19, 2026

Making Care Work

Nancy Folbre

A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.Our economy is mu…

Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)

August 19, 2026

Ganja Matters

Utathya Chattopadhyaya
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Ca…

Kiara Wyndham, "Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2026)

August 17, 2026

Diversityland

Kiara Wyndham
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Fort Bend County, Texas, looks like the America we claim to want: a suburb where Black, White, Asian, and Latinx families share cul-de-sacs, sch…

Mithi Mukherjee, "Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom" (U California Press, 2026)

August 16, 2026

Asianism and the Fall of Empire

Mithi Mukherjee
Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall

Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (University of California Press, …

The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

August 7, 2026

55 The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

Lukáš Senft, Tereza Stöckelová, and Varvara Borisova
Hosted by Gastronomica

What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this…

Carly Thomsen, "Reproductive Justice, Queerly" (U California Press, 2026)

August 5, 2026

Reproductive Justice, Queerly

Carly Thomsen
Hosted by Yining Pan

Queer theory and reproductive justice need each other—now more than ever. As liberals and leftists increasingly frame reproductive justice in terms of…

Inside Science Fiction Studies

July 15, 2026

Inside Science Fiction Studies

Phoenix Alexander, Stephen Darren Dougherty, Colin Milburn, Patrick Sharp, and Elizabeth (Lisa) Swanstrom
Hosted by Sherryl Vint

In this episode, the editors and managing editor of Science Fiction Studies offer an inside look at the journal, discussing its place in the field and…

Shawn William Miller, "Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway" (U California Press, 2026)

June 29, 2026

Dream Road to Pan America

Shawn William Miller
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown—even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt…

John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America" (U California Press, 2026)

June 27, 2026

Self-Realization Nation

John Kapusta
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

John Kapusta's Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America (U California Press, 2026) is the story of an un…

Introducing Periodically: A UC Press Journals Podcast with Journals Director David Famiano

June 25, 2026

Introducing Periodically

David Famiano
Hosted by Jessica Chesnutt

1. A complete list of University of California Press journals is available at UC Press Journals 2. Clare E. B. Cannon; Advancing sustainable transit…

Charlotte Brooks, "The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution" (U California Press, 2026)

June 18, 2026

The Moys of New York and Shanghai

Charlotte Brooks
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

The story of the Moy family—U.S.-born Chinese-American siblings who grow up in the first half of the 20th century—is one that spans the Pacific, cover…

Robert B. Marks, "Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years" (U California Press, 2026)

June 7, 2026

Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin

Robert B. Marks
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

"Deep Time," a way of understanding the distant past popularized in the late 20th century by the writer John McPhee, changes our perspective on histor…

Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)

June 6, 2026

Acts of Love

Allyson Nadia Field
Hosted by Pete Kunze

In 1898, vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown joyously embraced in a short silent film titled Something Good—Negro Kiss. The first known …

Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)

June 6, 2026

Smog and Sunshine

Ann Carlson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. From the 1940s through the 1980s, children breathed air so heavy with lead that their blood…

Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)

May 30, 2026

Ladder or Lottery

Gary Hoover

In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reader a simple…

Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell, "Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration" (U California Press, 2026)

May 30, 2026

Art-Science Undisciplined

Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Art-Science Undisciplined invites us into a collaborative journey grounded in mutual exploration and transformation. Moving beyond transactional excha…

Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)

May 27, 2026

The Narrowing Sea

Hannah Shepherd
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui

In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared hist…