University of Georgia Press Podcast

University of Georgia Press Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of University of Georgia Press books.

Mark A. Johnson, "American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

April 16, 2026

American Bacon

Mark A. Johnson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon (U Georgia Press, 2026), Dr. Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How h…

Stephen Legg, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

January 23, 2026

Spaces of Anticolonialism

Stephen Legg
Hosted by Saumya Dadoo

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (U Georgia Press, 2025) is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as th…

Caroline Peyton, "Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

January 17, 2026

Radioactive Dixie

Caroline Peyton
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader…

Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

December 8, 2025

Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle

Sylvia D. Hoffert
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town (University of Georgia Press, 2025), Dr. Sylvia Hoffert c…

Gregory S. Wilson, "Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

December 7, 2025

Poison Powder

Gregory S. Wilson
Hosted by Matthew Powell

In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand na…

Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

December 7, 2025

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

Beau Cleland
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy (U Georgia Press, 2025) by Dr. Beau Clelan…

Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

November 30, 2025

We the Young Fighters

Marc Sommers
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (U Georgia Press, 2023) by Dr. Marc Sommers is at once a history of a nation, the …

David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

November 22, 2025

Anthony Benezet

David Chanoff
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century At…

Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

November 20, 2025

The Good Forest

Karen Auman
Hosted by Lucy Biemiller

The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia (U Georgia Press, 2024) explores some of Georgia’s earliest settlers, the Salzburg…

Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

August 30, 2025

Hope Never to See It

Andrew Fialka
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War (U Georgia Press, 2025) by Dr. Andrew Fialka illustrates t…

Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

August 9, 2025

Unwhite

Meredith McCarroll
Hosted by Joel Tscherne

If you mention Appalachia to many people, they may immediately respond with the "Deliverance" dueling banjos theme. Unfortunately, this is an example …

Kathryn L. Beasley, "The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money" (University of Georgia Press, 2025)

June 22, 2025

The Proof Is in the Dough

KATHRYN L. BEASLEY
Hosted by Kelly Spivey

The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money (University of Georgia Press, 2025) examines how rural white and African …

Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

April 2, 2025

Southern by the Grace of God

Megan Hunt
Hosted by James West

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Megan Hunt joins us to talk about her recent book, Southern By the Grace of God, which was published in …

Brett Bannor, "American Sheep: A Cultural History" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

January 14, 2025

American Sheep

Brett Bannor
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Why did Thomas Jefferson write that he would be happy if all dogs went extinct? What economic opportunity did attorney John Lord Hayes envision for th…

Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

January 13, 2025

Nuggets of Gold

Patrick Dixon
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item t…

Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

December 22, 2024

New Destinations of Empire

Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-ent…

Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

November 30, 2024

A Continuous State of War

Maria Angela Diaz
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and …

Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

November 23, 2024

Flat-World Fiction

Liliana M. Naydan
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Press, 2021) Dr. Liliana Naydan analyses representat…

Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

August 3, 2024

Generations of Freedom

Nik Ribianszky
Hosted by Katrina Anderson

In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (U Georgia Press, 2021), Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender a…

Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

June 22, 2024

Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions

Paula Marie Seniors

Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists (U Georgia Press, 2024) explores the signif…