April 1, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing NOlympians Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond Jules Boykoff Now more than ever, it’s clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic...

April 1, 2020

Welcome to Our SCMS 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

We are disappointed that we are not able to attend the Society for Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference. We will miss all the great conversations and sense of community. Since the COVID-19 virus has many of us sitting home and...

March 31, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog

Letter from the editors: We are pleased to be sharing with you Columbia University Press’s 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies catalog. The books featured here reflect the press’s commitment to publishing innovative works examining the multifaceted ways in which...

March 31, 2020

Columbia University Press Makes E-Book Learning Resources Available to Students Online at No Cost

Columbia University Press has joined with VitalSource to make its titles available for free as e-books for students affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Many students purchased books for classroom use but now can’t access them after having moved rapidly to...

March 31, 2020

Book Excerpts! Mad for Foucault and Are the Lips a Grave?, By Lynne Huffer

As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, we are featuring Foucault’s Strange Eros, a modern consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics. by Lynne Huffer. In this forthcoming book, Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet and shows how...

March 31, 2020

New Book Tuesday! How the Suburbs Were Segregated, The Bearded Lady Project and Socialist Cosmopolitanism

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 Paige Glotzer Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest...

March 30, 2020

Sapphic Foucault

By Lynne Huffer

“Foucault’s Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading...

March 28, 2020

ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books About Global Politics

Today is the last day of our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit, but we’re not done yet. We are ending with a book sampled from each of our series in international relations. Explore jihadism in Tunisia, nuclear policy in North Korea,...

March 28, 2020

New Books in International Affairs from Agenda Publishing, Verlag Barbara Budrich, and Ibidem Press

No trip to the Columbia University Press booth would be complete without a look at what’s new from our distribution partners around the world! This year, we’re very excited to launch a robust list of titles on a wide swath...

March 28, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our Featured Book Series at ISA 2020!

Mahalo for continuing to follow our virtual International Studies Association exhibit! Today I’d like to talk to you about our global politics series. We have a lot of series in this field, because you political scientists love your series. Don’t...

March 27, 2020

ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books for Courses

Start your weekend off strong with this selection of excerpts from our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit! As Caelyn Cobb mentioned earlier today, these books would make great additions to a class, so settle in for some course reading inspiration. • ...

March 27, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on an Exploration of Our ISA 2020 Books for Courses

Aloha from Not-Hawaii, friends! Today in our virtual International Studies Association (ISA) booth, I want to share some of our international politics books that would be great choices for courses. Obviously, I think all of our global politics books have...