February 15, 2023

Q&A: Dr. Amy Yeboah Quarkume and Dr. Frank Guridy on Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

A Howard-Columbia Intellectual Partnership

In February 2021, Columbia University Press announced a new partnership with Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department—the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series. Building on Columbia University...

November 10, 2021

Q&A: Milenda Lee Interviews Lisa Hamm on the Evolution of Book Design and Production Over the Course of a Twenty-Two-Year Career

This year marks the tenth anniversary of University Press Week, an annual celebration in which university presses (UPs) come together to bring to light the contributions of UP publishing. This year’s theme, “Keep UP,” focuses on the ways UP publishing has...

November 19, 2020

In Celebration of Richard W. Bulliet’s Eightieth Birthday

By Jennifer Crewe

I write on the happy occasion of the eightieth birthday of one of the Press’s most prolific authors and one of our most important advisers and supporters. Richard W. Bulliet, Professor Emeritus of Middle East History at Columbia, was on the Press’s...

April 18, 2019

Book Excerpt! Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies

“Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an important new book that exposes the hidden environmental costs of how we make, watch, and dispose of movies.” ~ Alison Anderson, author of Media, Environment and the Network Society Our week-long feature on Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden...

July 27, 2018

Sentimental Tales: A Note on the Cover

This week we’re featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Today, we’re offering you some insight about the book’s cover. Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich is the cover designer for the Russian Library series. While the books have visual components that help them to hang...

July 26, 2018

Poking Jokes: On Translating Mikhail Zoshchenko’s “Sentimental Tales”

“Some texts are just too funny—and too important—not to share with an audience that would otherwise have no access to them.” ~ Boris Dralyuk This week we’ve been featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Now that you’ve had a chance to read the...

June 19, 2018

Behind the Scenes of the Association of University Presses Annual Meeting

IT’S TWO DAYS into the Association of University Presses annual meeting. You’ve been attending sessions and asking your colleagues to fill you in on the panels you couldn’t make it to. At this point. you may be wondering: How are session...