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.

Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)

November 8, 2025

The Kiss of Death

Andrea Kitta
Hosted by Timothy Thurston

Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one. This is the central tenet underlying The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (…

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)

September 28, 2025

Landscapes of Warfare

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
Hosted by Maggie Freeman

Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025) offers an in-depth exploration of the Urarti…

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)

September 4, 2025

Landscapes of Warfare

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025) by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni offers an in-d…

Jennifer Bess, "Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin" (U Colorado Press, 2021)

July 31, 2025

Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing

Jennifer Bess
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin (UP of Colorado, 2021) is not …

Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores

February 27, 2025

Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores

Bart Elmore, Rachel S. Gross, Sherri Sheu

Our book is: Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores (UP of Colorado, 2024) which presents a new look at how the big …

Audun Kjus et al., "Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum" (Utah State UP, 2024)

February 21, 2025

Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum

Audun Kjus, Clíona O'Carroll, Jakob Löfgren, Simon Poole, and Ida Tolgensbakk
Hosted by Jana Byars

Audun Kjus joins Jana Byars to talk about Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum (Utah State Press, 2025), eds. Audun Kjus, Jakob Löfgren, Cliona O’C…

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…