The University Press of Colorado Podcast

The University Press of Colorado Podcast

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Interviews with authors of the University Press of Colorado, University of Alaska Press, Utah State University Press, and University of Wyoming Press books.

Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”

August 6, 2024

Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”

Mark Nelson
Hosted by Tim Jones

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions eve…

Emily Legg, "Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907" (Utah State UP, 2023)

February 20, 2024

Stories of Our Living Ephemera

Emily Legg
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907 (Utah State University Press…

Sheila Marie Bock, "Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards" (Utah State UP, 2023)

February 2, 2024

Claiming Space

Sheila Marie Bock
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Claiming Space: Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards (Utah State University Press, 2023) by Dr. Sheila Bock examines the growing tra…

Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela E. Sandstrom, "Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana" (UP of Colorado, 2023)

November 11, 2023

Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain

Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
Hosted by Nathan Moore

An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana (UP of…

Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

August 2, 2023

Childfree and Happy

Courtney Adams Wooten
Hosted by Jana Byars
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Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens' Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) examines how millennia of reproduct…

J. Michael Rifenburg, "Drilled to Write: Becoming a Cadet Writer at a Senior Military College" (Utah State UP, 2022)

July 27, 2023

Drilled to Write

J. Michael Rifenburg
Hosted by Boris Karpa
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Drilled to Write: Becoming a Cadet Writer at a Senior Military College (Utah State UP, 2022) offers a rich account of US Army cadets navigating the un…

William Wei, "Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects" (UP of Colorado, 2021)

July 20, 2023

Becoming Colorado

William Wei
Hosted by Daniel Moran
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In Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects (UP of Colorado, 2021), historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history us…

Charles L. Briggs, "Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge" (Utah State UP, 2021)

March 12, 2023

Unlearning

Charles L. Briggs
Hosted by Jolon Timms

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Po…

Stephen E. Neaderhiser, "Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres" (Utah State UP, 2022)

March 4, 2023

Writing the Classroom

Stephen E. Neaderhiser
Hosted by Gargi Binju

Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres (UP of Colorado, 2022) explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to…

Dissertations Wanted! A Conversation with the Editor of University of Wyoming Press

July 7, 2022

Dissertations Wanted!

Robert Ramaswamy

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why Robert Ramaswamy wants to see your revised dissertation submitted for publicati…

Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)

June 15, 2022

Rhetoric and Guns

Lydia Wilkes, Nate Kreuter, and Ryan Skinnell
Hosted by Thomas Discenna

Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of…

Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)

June 14, 2022

Black or Right

Louis M. Maraj
Hosted by Anna Lindner

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly edu…

Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "Daughters of Harriet: Poems" (UP of Colorado, 2022)

May 13, 2022

Daughters of Harriet

Cynthia Parker-Ohene
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene's poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks:…

William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2021)

September 3, 2021

Beyond Conversation

William Duffy
Hosted by Sarah Kearns

In Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing (Utah State UP, 2021), William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the grow…

Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)

October 29, 2020

Transforming Ethos

Rosanne Carlo
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the fla…

Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque" (UP of Colorado, 2017)

September 17, 2020

Public Performances

Jack Santino
Hosted by Isabel Machado

Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relatio…

Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High" (UP of Colorado, 2018)

August 12, 2020

Remembering Lucile

Polly E. Bugros McLean

In 1918 Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, becoming its first female African American grad…

David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (UP of Colorado, 2017)

August 6, 2020

Words and Worlds Turned Around

David Tavárez

Professor David Tavárez’s edited volume, Words & Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America (University of Colorado Pre…

Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia" (Utah State UP, 2019)

July 16, 2020

Presumed Incompetent II

Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs

The courageous and inspiring personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Acad…

John R. Gallagher, "Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)

May 11, 2020

Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing

John R. Gallagher
Hosted by Lee Pierce

On this episode, Lee Pierce (she/they interviews John R. Gallagher of University of Illinois about Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing…