New editors and new special issues were a definite highlight this quarter. We also celebrated the 58-volume legacy of American Literary Realism as it published its final issue.
Here’s some bonus fast facts from our annual report: We publish 42 journals with 121 issues between them adding over 2,500 content items published. We proudly represent 23 societies, and our journals have strong editorial leadership from their 59 editors-in-chief and editorial board members spanning more than 35 different countries. Over the year, our content was read 3.5 million times, from our most recently founded journal with 6 years of history, Diasporic Italy, to our 139 volume years of American Journal of Psychology and everything in between.
P.S. In case you missed it in our last UPdate, have you checked out our newest journal, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society?
Read on below for all the latest news from University of Illinois Press journals.
Special Issues
- “In Memoriam. Robert W. Proctor (1949–2023) I” and “In Memoriam. Robert W. Proctor (1949–2023) II,” American Journal of Psychology, Volume 139, Numbers 1 and 2, with prefaces by Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Darryl W. Schneider, and Fábio P. Leite
- “Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, Volume 32, Number 1, guest edited by Meredith McCarroll, Anna Rachel Terman, and Krystal Brooke Carter
- “Genres, Ideologies, and the Kalevala,” Journal of Finnish Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, guest edited by Niina Hämäläinen
- “Contemporary Issues in Black Philosophy: Pluralism in Methodological Approaches,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 2, guest edited by Alexander Williams Tolbert and Ian Shane Peebles
- “SIAP 2024—The Elemental Special Issue,” The Pluralist, Volume 21, Number 2, guest edited by Celia T. Bardwell-Jones
- “Boycotting Montreal, Moscow, and Los Angeles: The Olympics After Détente” Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, guest edited by Christopher Young and Robert Edelman
- “Roots and Fruits: Personal and Professional Pathways of Polish Émigré Women in North America” Polish American Studies, Volume 83, Numbers 1-2, guest edited by Barbara Krupa
- “In Memoriam Nicholas Rescher 1928–2024” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 1, edited by Patrick Grim
- “Queer Mormon Bodies, Belonging, and Identity” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 59, Issue 1, edited by Caroline Kline and Margaret Olsen Hemming
- “Remembering Jadwiga Maurer: Teacher, Scholar, Creative Writer” The Polish Review, Volume 71, Number 1, guest edited by Joanna Rostropowicz Clark
- “Colloquy: Job Markets, PhDs, and What is Next in Music Studies?” American Music, Volume 43, Issue 1-2, guest edited by Michael Sy Uy
Blogs
Did you know that April is both poetry month and jazz appreciation month? We thought there was no better way to celebrate than with some featured poems from Jazz and Culture. Check out our list of recent poems (and recent special issues of the journal, too!).
Join UIP in welcoming Caroline Kline and Margaret Olsen Hemming, new editors of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought! Their first issue as editors, Volume 59, Issue 1, is out now and is available open access online. Read our Q & A on the blog to get to know them!
We also welcomed Anne Mäntynen, the new co-editor of Journal of Finnish Studies! Her first issue of the Journal working alongside co-editor Thomas A. DuBois was Vol. 28, Iss. 2. You can read our blog post introducing her, or revisit the podcast we recorded with both editors at the end of last year.
If you’re looking for your next article or book to read, the following blog posts might help you find it:
- National Poetry/Literature Month Reading List
- 2026 African American Music Appreciation Month Reading List
- 2026 National Biographer’s Day Reading List
Featured Top Articles
What’s been a highly read article in these journals for the past three months? Many of our journals have content on several different online platforms, so this feature section is only highlighting one top article from one platform (in the case of the below, these are top articles from the Scholarly Publishing Collective, which hosts most of our current content).
- The Polish Review: “The Political Unconscious of Polish 1990s Cinema” by Sebastian Jagielski and Robert Ga??zka (Vol. 70, No. 1) *OPEN ACCESS*
- Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought: “A Trajectory of Plurality: An Overview of Joseph Smith’s Thirty-three Plural Wives” by Todd Compton (Vol. 29, No. 2) *OPEN ACCESS*
- Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education: “Secondary Choral Music Educators’ Usage of African American Spirituals in American Music Classrooms” by Michelle Z. Gibson (No. 243)
- Mormon Studies Review: “Technologies of the Selfie: Mormon Influencers and the Performance of Gender Online” by Kate Davis (Vol. 12)
- Connecticut History Review: “Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women” review by Anna M. Beecher (Vol. 65, No. 1)
- Diasporic Italy: “Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood in the Italian American Narrative: An Introduction” by Elisa Bordin and Theodora Patrona (Vol. 5)
- History of Philosophy Quarterly: “Later Medieval Psychology: Deliberation, Love, and Mental Causation” by Michael Szlachta (Vol. 40, No. 2)
- Journal of Olympic Studies: “Action Sports and the Olympic Games: From Tokyo to Paris, Los Angeles, and Beyond” by Holly Thorpe, Douglas Booth, Molly Frizzell, Damien Puddle, Neftalie Williams, and Belinda Wheaton (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- The Pluralist: “Philosophical Pragmatism and the Challenges of Information Technologies” by David L. Hildebrand (Vol. 18, No. 1)
- Journal of American Folklore: “Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms” by Rachel Valentina González-Martin, Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera, and Solimar Otero (Vol. 135, No. 536)
What’s Next UP?
We’re kicking off July in a big way with our America250 celebrations! Our state history journals really rose up to the occasion:
- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society has a special issue on the role of Illinois in the broader American story (read more on our blog post—free access to the issue in July 2026!).
- Utah Historical Quarterly is celebrating with a special volume on “The Peoples of Utah Revisited,” a partnership with community groups and historians to make their stories part of the published record of Utah history (watch the video introduction or check out Vol. 94, Iss. 1, and Vol. 94, Iss. 2, out now).
- Connecticut History Review will have a special issue out this fall, so we’ll keep celebrating this incredible milestone for the country all year with an incredible lineup of new scholarship.
Oh, and just a quick note to pique your curiosity: a new journal will be joining our ranks very soon… Stay tuned!