About UMass Press Staff

Hi NBN team! This is Chelsey Harris, Marketing & Sales Manager for UMass Press. I have a host profile set up, but we'd like another one set up under this email address to appear as "UMass Press Staff" for others to use. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do to make this happen. Thank you!

NBN Episodes hosted by UMass:

Lauren W. Westerfield, "Woman House: Essays and Assemblages" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)

May 29, 2026

Woman House

Lauren W. Westerfield

A compelling and inventive memoir exploring how pain and pleasure are passed down through generations of women For years, Lauren W. Westerfield looke…

David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)

May 27, 2026

Segregation Games

A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox i…

Nicholas W. Gentile, "Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution" (U Mass Press, 2025)

March 28, 2026

Enemies to Their Country

Nicholas W. Gentile

Nicholas W. Gentile complicates our understanding of the American Revolution through a microhistory of one Massachusetts town in his new book, Enemies…

Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)

December 6, 2025

Racializing Objectivity

Gwyneth Mellinger

“When the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a debate…

Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

October 31, 2025

The Insider

Rob Wells

When Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike o…

Carlene Kucharczyk, "Strange Hymn: Poems" (U Mass Press, 2025)

October 25, 2025

Strange Hymn

Carlene Kucharczyk

"I'll tell you everything I know. Though there might not be much to tell," confesses the speaker in Strange Hymn: Poems (U Mass Press, 2025) by Carlen…