Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 American Studies Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the promo code ASA2022 for 50% off all books when ordering from our website, November 3-6, 2022. Buy 3 books and receive the next issue of Journal of American Ethnic History for free.
Featured Books
Featured Journals
American Music is an independent, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly. Its articles, reviews, and special issues are devoted to American music in the broadest sense, including musical practices of North, South, and Central America as well as American musics performed anywhere in the world.
The Journal of American Ethnic History addresses various aspects of North American immigration history and American ethnic history, including background of emigration, ethnic and racial groups, Native Americans, race and ethnic relations, immigration policies, and the processes of incorporation, integration, and acculturation.
Journal of American Folklore, the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society’s founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide professional audience. Content is grounded in past and current folklore scholarship, and is based on recognized disciplinary methods.
More Journals to Explore
- American Literary Realism
- Connecticut History Review
- Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association
- Italian Americana
- Italian American Review
- Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
- Journal of Appalachian Studies
- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
- Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
- Polish American Studies
- Utah Historical Quarterly
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Recent Award News
Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago by Ayana Contreras, made the shortlist for Chicago Review of Books 2022 CHIRBy Awards in the category of nonfiction.
Surviving South Hampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Let’s Talk
Daniel Nasset is the new editor-in-chief at the University of Illinois Press. Danny came to Illinois as an assistant acquisitions editor in 2009, becoming an acquisitions editor in 2011 and a senior acquisitions editor in 2016. Danny has distinguished himself with his acquisitions in history, sports, American studies, communication and media studies.
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Dominique Moore is an acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press. Her academic background includes a BA in English with a minor in gender and women’s studies at UIUC and an MA in African American studies from UCLA. Dominique brings experience, knowledge, and passion to her acquisitions in Black studies; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and American ethnic studies.
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