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Since its founding in 1947, the mission of the Michigan State University Press has been to be a catalyst for positive intellectual, social, and technological change through the publication of research and intellectual inquiry, making significant contributions to scholarship in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. In this podcast series, we interview MSU Press authors about their research and discuss scholarly publishing with the professionals who make it happen.
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On Publishing with Catherine Cocks and Caitlin Tyler-Richards from 2022-07-25T10:00
You can find out more about MSU Press at msupress.org and other fine booksellers. Catherine is on Twitter @ca...
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Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan / Stories of Where the Waters Divide from 2022-07-18T10:00
Bkejwanong means “where the waters part,” but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanong—formerly known as Walpole Is...
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Confessions of a Presidential Speech Writer from 2022-07-11T10:00
An avid high school debater and enthusiastic student body president, Craig Smith seemed destined for a life in public service from an early age. As a sought-after speechwriter, Smith had a front...
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Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio from 2022-05-02T10:00
Andrés Espinoza Agurrrrto’s new book, Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio, explores the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino movement of music,...
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Nearly Nuclear: A Mismanaged Energy Transition from 2022-04-25T10:00
When Consumers Power’s plan to build a nuclear power plant in Midland, Michigan, was announced in 1967, it promised to free Michigan residents from expensive, dirty, coal-fired electricity and t...
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Turntables and Tropes: A Rhetoric of Remix from 2022-04-19T10:00
Remixing is essential to contemporary culture. We see it in song mashups, political remix videos, memes, and even on streaming television shows like Stranger Things. But remixing isn’t ...
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Louise Erdrich's Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts from 2022-04-04T10:00
Louise Erdrich is one of the most important, prolific, and widely read contemporary Indigenous writers. In Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts, edited by my...
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Late Self-Portraits from 2022-03-28T10:00
A compelling collection of poems, Late Self-Portraits conveys an intimate description of lives through a collage of portraits and affliction. Weaving history and the sacred, both intima...
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We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls in Michigan's Upper Peninsula from 2022-03-15T10:00
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twe...
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Under a Bad Sun: Police, Politics, and Corruption in Australia from 2022-02-28T10:00
In Under a Bad Sun: Police, Politics, and Corruption in Australia my guest Paul Bleakley asks, Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? A question that ...
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The Call: Eloquence in Service of Truth from 2022-02-21T10:00
In The Call: Eloquence in Service of Truth, my guests Craig R. Smith and Michael J. Hyde offer a rare examination of a rhetorical phenomenon referred to as “the call,” which is closely ...
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Coffin Honey from 2022-02-14T10:00
As I said in the intro, this will be the fifth season of the MSU Press podcast, and I’m excited to share new interviews with MSU Press authors on subjects such as remix culture, nuclear energy, ...
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Innovations in Collaborative Modeling from 2021-12-06T10:00
Collaborative applications of a variety of modeling methodologies have multiplied in recent decades due to widespread recognition of the power of models to integrate information from multiple so...
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Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction from 2021-11-22T10:00
Science fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes o...
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Ships&Shipwrecks: Stories from the Great Lakes from 2021-11-15T10:00
From the day that French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffin in 1679 to the 1975 sinking of the celebrated Edmund Fitzgerald, thousands of commercial ship...
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Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie from 2021-11-08T10:00
From 1940 to 1970, mid‐Michigan created an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture. Based on archival research and oral histories, Susan J. Bandes’s Mid-Michigan Modern ex...
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Waterfront Porch: Reclaiming Detroit's Industrial Waterfront as a Gathering Place for All from 2021-11-01T10:00
The city of Detroit was the epicenter of the fur trade era, an unparalleled leader of shipbuilding for one hundred years, the Silicon Valley of the industrial age, and an unquestioned leader in ...
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A World of Turmoil: The United State, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War from 2021-10-18T10:00
The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife’s edge of war for more than seventy years. A work of sweeping historical vision, A World of Turmoil Listen
The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes from 2021-10-11T10:00
In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world with a ferocious industrial history. Despite these pressures, the ...
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Architectural Missionary: D. Fred Charlton in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1887-1918 from 2021-10-04T11:00
The first and most prolific professional architect to live in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, D. Fred Charlton used Lake Superior sandstone to craft distinctive buildings throughout the UP. Born in ...
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Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France from 2021-06-07T10:00
During the German Occupation from 1940 to 1944, Resistance fighters, Parisian youth, and French prisoners of war mined a vast repertoire from a long national musical tradition and a burgeoning i...
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Smuggling Elephants through Airport Security from 2021-05-31T10:00
Nothing is off-limits in Smuggling Elephants through Airport Security. This ultimately American text positions big ideas in public spaces, often discovering the absurdity and h...
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The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa from 2021-05-03T11:00
The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa is an original and provocative study of contemporary African film and literature. In the book, Vlad Dima investigat...
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Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production from 2021-04-19T11:00
In China today, the party-state increasingly penetrates commercial social media while aspiring to turn its own media agencies into platforms. Introducing the concept of state-sponsored platformi...
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Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric Since 1945 from 2021-04-12T11:00
Ending a war, as Fred Charles Iklé wrote, poses a much greater challenge than beginning one. In addition to issues related to battle tactics, prisoners of war, diplomatic relations, and cease-fi...
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The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria from 2021-04-05T11:00
The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian...
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Community Engagement Abroad from 2021-03-29T11:00
A landmark in our understanding of international community-engaged learning programs, Community Engagement Abroad invites educators to rethink everything from disciplinary assumptions t...
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Writing That Breaks Stones from 2021-03-22T10:00
Writing That Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives is a critical examination of six memoirs and six novels written by and about young adults from Africa who were once child so...
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On Poetry and Nature with Noah Davis and Derek Sheffield from 2021-03-15T10:00
Selected by Mark Doty for the 2019 Wheelbarrow Books prize, Derek Sheffield’s Not for Luck ushers us into the beauty and grace that comes from giving attention to the interconnections t...
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Divided Loyalties: Young Somali Americans and the Lure of Extremism from 2021-03-01T10:00
In Divided Loyalties: Young Somali Americans and the Lure of Extremism, Joseph Weber examines the cases of the more than fifty Somali Americans, mostly young men from Minnesota, who mad...
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Sovereign Traces from 2020-11-30T09:29
Now into two volumes, the Sovereign Traces series merges works of contemporary North American Indian literature with imaginative illustrations by US and Canadian artists. As comics, the...
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Talking Acquisitions&University Press Publishing from 2020-11-23T09:00
Catherine Cocks is the assistant director and editor in chief of MSU Press you can find her on Twitter @catherine_msup.
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Detroit's Hidden Channels: French Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century from 2020-11-16T09:00
The hidden channels of Detroit’s French-Indigenous history run backward and forward through time, cutting through and becoming visible in the expanse of the imperial record only to disappear int...
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Cleveland Architecture, 1890-1930 from 2020-11-09T09:00
At the turn of the twentieth century, Cleveland became a model of what could be accomplished by a partnership between the city’s wealthy and the local government to create an architecturally bea...
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African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction from 2020-11-02T09:00
The African diasporic condition in the Western world is characterized by the intersection of various factors. As a result, quests for the self and self-reconstruction are frequent themes in the ...
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The Medicine Wheel: Environmental Decision-Making Process of Indigenous Peoples from 2020-10-19T09:00
The medicine wheel built by Indigenous people acknowledges that ecosystems experience unpredictable recurring cycles and that people and the environment are interconnected. The Western science k...
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Re-Membering and Surviving: African American Fiction of the Vietnam War from 2020-10-12T09:00
In the words of Yusef Komunyakaa, Shirley A. James Hanshaw’s Re-Membering and Surviving is a powerful call seeking a response. This superb analytical voice examines literature by four b...
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The Crisis of School Violence: A New Perspective from 2020-10-05T11:24
The Crisis of School Violence is the only interdisciplinary book about school violence. It presents a broad and in-depth approach to the key questions about why bullying continues at an...
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The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI from 2020-09-28T09:00
In his new book, The Manufacture of Consent, Dr. Underhill treats J. Edgar Hoover’s tenure as FBI director as a case study in political power, focusing on the rhetorical nature of that ...
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Academic Journal Publishing and the Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies from 2020-09-21T09:00
Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades is the journal of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies. First published in the spring of 1975 at the University of Colorado, Denv...
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The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War from 2020-06-08T09:00
On the hot summer evening of July 2, 1863, at the climax of the struggle for a Pennsylvania hill called Little Round Top, four Confederate regiments charge up the western slope, attacking the sm...
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Anthropology and Radical Humanism from 2020-06-01T09:00
Anthropology and Radical Humanism is based on the work of the famed ethnographer of the Winnebago, Paul Radin. During his three-year appointment at Fisk University in the late 1920s, Ra...
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The Eagle Has Eyes from 2020-05-25T09:00
The Eagle Has Eyes is the first book of its kind to bring transparency to the FBI’s attempts to destroy the incipient Chicano Movement of the 1960s. The role of the US government in sup...
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Intellectual Populism from 2020-05-18T09:15
On today’s episode, we’re joined by Paul Stob to discuss his book, Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People. In response to denunciations of populism as undemocratic an...
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Blackhood against the Police Power from 2020-05-11T09:15
Dr. Tryon Woods is Associate Professor of crime and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he teaches Black Studies and critical approaches to de-disciplining knowled...
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(New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth from 2020-05-04T09:15
In (New) Fascism, Dr. Lawtoo discusses the new forms of fascism haunting our contemporary political scene. He reads this new style of fascism and crowd psychology through the lens of mi...
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Toward the Wild Abundance from 2020-04-27T09:15
Toward the Wild Abundance received the Wheelbarrow Books Prize for Poetry from Center for Poetry at the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities here at MSU in 2018. In her introd...
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Once Upon a Time at the Opera House from 2020-04-20T09:15
Once Upon a Time at the Opera House explores the importance of opera houses to the cultural and community life of nonmetropolitan areas in Michigan. As both the civic and arts center fo...
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RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music from 2020-04-13T09:15
RESPECT is a massive collection of poems and lyrics, a monument that shows the global impact of Detroit’s music scene. Its contents span genres from jazz and Motown and R&B to hip-hop, rap, ...
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James D. Diamond on Healing after Rampage Shootings from 2020-04-06T09:15
In this episode, James D. Diamond discusses his book After the Bloodbath: Is Healing Possible in the Wake of Rampage Shootings. Topics include Indigenous justice traditions, restorative...
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About MSU Press and University Press Publishing from 2020-03-30T09:15
In this episode, the press's director, Gabe Dotto, and the press's editor-in-chief, Catherine Cocks, join us to talk about the history and future of MSU Press and some of the challenges facing u...
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