Nuclear Nature and the Cold War Environment

02/14/23 • 38 min

Neil Oatsvall hails from and resides on the East Coast but he spent over a decade landlocked in the middle of the country. He did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina in Asian Studies (Japanese language) and history, and received his doctorate in history from the University of Kansas. Currently, Neil teaches high school history at the Triangle Math and Science Academy in Cary, NC. He has published in various outlets, including Agricultural History, Environment and History, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. His book manuscript, Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945-1960, is forthcoming with the University of Alabama Press.

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Criminal Profiling, the Mad Bomber, and Writing True Crime

Michael Cannell is a journalist and author who has also served as an editor for The New York Times. His writing includes numerous stories on sports and design, as well as four books, which include The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit and A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. He is also the author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling, which is the subject of our conversation today.

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Libraries, Community, and Sustainability

*Since recording our conversation April stepped into a new role as Regional Manager for the Carroll and Madison Library System. Congrats!*

April Griffith is the Library Director at the Carnegie Public Library in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She received her MSLS from Clarion University in 2012, and has worked in academic, special and public libraries over the past decade. Her passion for the intersection of library services, community, and sustainability prompted her to serve as a project advisor for ALA’s Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change, write a chapter for Libraries and Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact, edited by Rene Tanner, et al., and contribute blog entries for ALA’s Programming Librarian blog. April presented on the topic of sustainable library practices at the 2020 Association of Rural and Small Libraries annual conference, the 2020 ArLA annual conference, as well as for web program feature series hosted by various state libraries. Her service to the profession includes volunteering as a reader for the Arkansas Teen Book Awards and participation on ArLA’s Nominating and Awards committees.