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In this episode, we speak with Claudia Strauss, author of the new book What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic. Claudia Strauss is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Pitzer College. She is the author of Making Sense of Public Opinion and coauthor of A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning.

We spoke to Claudia about her research on Americans’ attitudes towards work; what she found were the two most prevalent views that Americans have about their work lives; and, why, despite dire warnings in the media, Americans still want to work in the Post-COVID employment landscape.

Welcome to the fifth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Michigan State University professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Emory & Henry College professor Matthew Shannon about his new book, Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century—
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In this episode, we speak with Güneş Murat Tezcür, author of the new book Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies. Güneş Murat Tezcür is the Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics.

We spoke to Güneş about why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence; how religious stigmatization and political resentment motivate ordinary people to participate in mass atrocities; and, some of the heartbreaking stories that Güneş documented in his research.

Welcome to the fourth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with University of Washington professor Christopher Tounsel about his new book, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity:
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In this episode, we brought together two Cornell University Press authors in the hopes they would have a lively discussion and they certainly delivered. One was Christopher Ewing, author of the new book The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970 and the other was Jake Newsome, author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust.

Christopher Ewing is Assistant Professor at Purdue University. His research focuses on the intersections of queer history and the history of race in modern Germany. He has previously published in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Sexualities, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, and Sexuality & Culture.

Jake Newsome is an award winning scholar of German and American LGBTQ+ history whose research and resources educate global audiences. He is the Founder and Director of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, a grassroots initiative that honors the memory of the Nazis queer victims and carries on their legacy by fighting homophobia and transphobia today through education, empowerment, and advocacy. You can find him online at wjakenewsome.com.

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In this episode, we speak with Vasilly Klimentov, author of the new book, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists and Islam. Vassily Klimentov is a SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a Research Associate at the Geneva Graduate Institute, the institution where he got his PhD in International History.

We spoke to Vasilly about how the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan failed in large part due to the Soviets disregard for Islam; how this miscalculation was fueled by communist ideology; and, what parallel lessons the Soviet Union and the United States could have both learned from their occupations of Afghanistan.