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Join us at IHS!

denise — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:52:27 +0000

Visit our tables at the Illinois History Symposium (IHS), “Contested Lands: 1763-1840,” April 26-28 at The Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, East Peoria. The symposium commemorates the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and then end of the frontier in the Illinois Territory. Meet Lisa Bayer and take advantage of our 30% conference discount with FREE shipping on orders placed at the meeting!

Gillum Ferguson, author of Illinois in the War of 1812, will be the guest speaker at the Banquet and Awards Program Friday at 7 pm.

Other books and authors that will be featured at IHS include:

The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920-1929, Christopher Robert Reed

Illinois: A History in Pictures, Gerald A. Danzer

Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating

Peer Review No Longer in the Dark

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:04:31 +0000

In today’s Inside Higher Ed, Scott Jaschik reported on sessions taking place at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting discussing the role of traditional blind peer review in scholarly publications in light of the ever-evolving digital landscape for current and future scholarship in the humanities.

Many humanities journals still select papers for publication in this manner (UIP has several journals that follow this practice), but Aaron J. Barlow, an associate professor of English at the College of Technology of the City University of New York, argues that “blind peer review is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.” On the panel of another session, others such as Illinois State University English professor and Kairos editor Cheryl E. Ball, offered up alternatives to the traditional peer review process. As Ball notes,

Peer reviewers don’t need rubrics. They need good ways to communicate.

It looks like change may come sooner rather than later, and like communication, change is usually a good thing.

UIP at OAH

michael — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:57:15 +0000

Cherry blossoms! It’s springtime in Washington, D.C. From April 7-10 the Press attended the Organization of American Historians’ 2010 annual meeting at the Hilton Washington in D.C. (more than one acquaintance reminded me that the Hilton is where President Reagan was shot in 1981).

This year’s conference was well attended and we had the pleasure of interacting with many University of Illinois Press authors. Highlights included a cookie and soda reception for the editors of the Florence Kelley and Jane Addams papers projects, and a champagne toast to celebrate Margaret Washington’s Darlene Clark Hine Award for Sojourner Truth’s America.

Thanks to the many authors who posed for photos. See the Photos section of the University of Illinois Press Facebook page for more images.

Leslie Alexander, Margaret Washington, Michelle Scott

Jarod Roll and Darlene Clark Hine

Laurie Matheson being interviewed by C-Span's Book-TV