1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Host Martyn Beeny chats with Romi Gutierrez, associate director and director of sales and marketing at University Press of Florida about metadata, metrics, content marketing, influencers, local marketing, successful marketing, and the end of the book review!

CUP Editor in Chief Mahinder Kingra joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Kalamazoo for the International Congress on Medieval Studies. If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Mahinder, look at our new books, and pick up copies of our 2018 Medieval Studies catalog and sampler. The electronic versions of our catalog and sampler can be viewed via the following links: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/cor_medieval_studies_2018_mb_issuu?e=29596641/60896191 https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/medieval_studies_2018_sampler_issuu?e=29596641/60776790

Author Julia Cassaniti joins us to talk about her book, Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Julia Cassaniti is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. Her previous Cornell book, Living Buddhism, won the Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140107114010&fa=author&person_id=5710#content

Author Jonathan Karmel joins us to talk about his book, Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace. For more than 30 years Jon has represented workers and labor unions and their benefit funds throughout the midwest in the federal courts and before the NLRB, Department of Labor, and EEOC among others agencies. Jon is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is the Union Co-Chair of the Occupational Safety and Health Committee of the American Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker on labor and employment topics. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100125680

Author Tim Wendel joins us to talk about his book, Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia. A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, Tim Wendel is the author of Summer of ’68, Castro’s Curveball, and High Heat, which was an Editor’s Choice selection by The New York Times Book Review. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100978290

Author Daniel Bessner joins us to talk about his book, Democrary in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140104396220

Poet, visual artist, oral historian and licensed electrician Susan Eisenberg joins us to talk about her new collection of poetry, Stanley's Girl. Susan Eisenberg is Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. Visit susaneisenberg.com for more information. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140106652980&fa=author&person_id=846#content

On Episode 2, host Martyn Beeny chats with Carrie Olivia Adams, a freelance publicist, about book marketing, the future of publicity, the NY Times and NPR, blurbs, and more.

In this episode we chat with Sarah Grossman, Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Publications Managing Editor, about her experiences at the recent Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Washington, DC.

Coline Jenkins joins us to discuss her family's, and her own, pioneering work in promoting women's rights. The great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Coline is a legislator, author and television producer. Through the years, she has used her talents to inspire both awareness and pride in women's history.

Author Julie Chernov Hwang joins us to talk about her book, Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists. Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations at Goucher College. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484390

First episode of the new spin-off podcast series, Sage Marketing, in which host Martyn Beeny chats book marketing with Dennis Johnson, co-owner and co-publisher of Melville House.

Author Danna Agmon joins us to talk about her book, A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India, as well as her Twitter Party on February 27. Agmon is Assistant Professor of History and ASPECT at Virginia Tech. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100368870

Author Darryl Jones joins Martyn Beeny to chat about his new book, The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters.

Michael Roux, Marketing and Sales Manager at University of Illinois Press, joins Martyn Beeny to chat about marketing books to the scholarly community and beyond.

Authors Sharon Batt and Fran Quigley discuss the cost of medicines in the wake of President Trump's State of the Union address.

University of Nebraska Press Publicity Manager Rosemary Sekora chats with Martyn Beeny about book marketing, book publicity, and all things connected.

In this episode we chat with Emily Andrew, Senior Acquisitions Editor, and Bethany Wasik, Assistant Editor, about their experiences at the recent American Historical Association annual conference in Washington DC.

Authors Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski discuss their new book, The End of Grand Strategy: US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

Interview with Dean Smith, director of Cornell University Press, in which he discusses 2017, his personal highlights, as well as those of the Press more generally, and we chat about what's next in scholarly publishing.