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April 13, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of recent blog posts and features from other academic presses.

April 6, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses.

March 30, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular (though soon we may have to start calling it regular) roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: The University of Michigan Press and Beacon Press reflect on Adrienne Rich’s life and works after the...

March 23, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: The Hurst Blog has reprinted an article detailing important new clues to the death of Dag Hammarskjold in 1961, written by Christopher Merrett. Working with Robin Barnes,...

March 16, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: Just in time for March Madness, Princeton University Press provides an interview with Tim Chartier on how math can be used to predict the winners of “March...

February 9, 2012

Association of American University Presses Turns 75

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) was officially founded on February 8, 1937 (Happy Birthday). Yesterday the AAUP web published an essay by Brenna McLaughlin looking at what led university presses to form an association. (According to the AAUP,...

January 9, 2012

Jennifer Crewe on University Presses' Commitment to Translation

The following is a letter from Columbia University Press’s editorial director and associate director Jennifer Crewe in response to a recent article in The Chronicle Review on books in translation. I would otherwise wholeheartedly applaud Carlin Romano’s article “American Readers’...

December 2, 2011

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: Yale University Press runs an excerpt from Melissa V. Harris Perry’s Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Why Don’t American Cities Burn? Michael B....

November 11, 2011

Obesity, the Greek Crisis, and Trollope: A University Press Blog Roundup

Our occasional feature looking at noteworthy and interesting posts from university press blogs: Duke University Press offers free access to an article from George Papandreou, the recently resigned Greek Prime Minister, on strategies for recovery in the Eurozone. For the...

July 8, 2011

University Press Blogs: The Week in Review

Our occasional roundup of university press blogs: A gay liberationist looks at gay marriage on the Cambridge University Press blog. A video from the Harvard University Press blog: Serena Mayeri discusses her book Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the...

June 17, 2011

X-Men, Levitating Frogs, Zombies, and more from University Press Blogs.

Our semi-regular weekly roundup of posts from the wide world of university press blogs. As always university presses offer some of the best reading out there on the Web: Cambridge University Press launches the Cambridge Book Club with their first...

June 10, 2011

Weiner, Weiwei, and More from University Press Blogs

The following is a roundup of some excellent posts from our fellow university press blogs: Yale University Press interviews the husband-and-wife biologist team John and Colleen Marzluff, co-authors of Dog Days, Raven Nights. Marjorie Cohn asks if the assassination of...