Category: Academia/Education

August 29, 2014

University Press Blog Round Up: Ferguson, Social Networking, The Physics of Cocktails, and More!

Before heading off to the beach, read up on some of the excellent posts from university press blogs from the week that was: Jeanne Theoharis explores the connection between the recent protests in Ferguson and the history and legacy of...

June 23, 2014

Analytic Philosophy's Fire Alarm, by Santiago Zabala

Read a post by Santiago Zabala, coauthor of HERMENEUTIC COMMUNISM, on Continental and analytic philosophy.

May 8, 2014

Professor Mom! An Interview with the editors of "Mothers in Academia"

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, we thought we would shed some light on those mothers who also toil in academia. The following is an interview with Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro, the editors of Mothers in Academia. The...

February 10, 2014

Marianne Hirsch on the MLA's Resolution on Israel and Palestine

“When it comes to the topic of Israel and Palestine, discussion is curtailed before it begins. In a debate that is structured to allow only two clear-cut sides, words lose their meaning.”—Marianne Hirsch Recent resolutions from the American Studies Association...

November 15, 2013

University Press Roundup: Special UPWeek Edition

Welcome to our University Press Roundup! As many of you know, this week was University Press Week, and many of the blogs we normally cover here participated in the #UPWeek Blog Tour, so we are making this the Special UPWeek...

November 15, 2013

#UPWeek Blog Tour: Columbia University Press and Global Publishing

It’s the final day ofUniversity Press Week! All week long university presses have been participating in the UP Week Blog Tour. We are thrilled to participate, and excited about today’s blog post theme: The Global Reach of University Presses. Make...

November 8, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. Ever wondered what...

October 23, 2013

Sera Young, author of Craving Earth, wins 2013 Margaret Mead Award

Columbia University Press is pleased to announce that Sera Young, a research scientist in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, is the recipient of the prestigious Margaret Mead award for her book, Craving Earth: Understanding Pica–the Urge to...

September 30, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! These are just a few of our favorite posts from last week, since we didn’t have a chance to fill you in on Friday (sorry...

September 13, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. Do words matter?...

September 5, 2013

Peter Rabins: "Widespread Power Failures: Programmatic and Emergent Causality"

This week our featured book is The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life, by Peter Rabins. This is the fifth article in a series of six articles by Peter Rabins. And, don’t forget to enter our book...

September 5, 2013

Peter Rabins: Douthat, Pinker and "Scientism"

“[Steven] Pinker has failed to recognize the limits of empirical scientific reasoning, just as those who rely predominantly on ecclesiastic or empathic reasoning mistakenly reject scientific results because they do not fit with their values.”—Peter Rabins This week our featured...