Q&A with Marty Robbins biographer Diane Diekman
Author Diane Diekman has followed up her 2007 biography of country music star Faron Young with a new book on Marty Robbins. Here she discusses the research and writing of Twentieth Century Drifter: […]
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NPR explores Beauty Shop Politics
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Tiffany Gill, author of the University of Illinois Press book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry on the December 28, […]
The Book of Mormon, Top 5
In the January 7, 2012, edition of the Wall Street Journal, Samuel Morris Brown identifies Grant Hardy’s The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition as one of the top 5 best […]
Peer Review No Longer in the Dark
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 […]
Ronald Smith interviewed by Urbana-Champaign NPR affiliate about college athletic reform
On January 3, 2012, Ronald Smith, professor emeritus of sports history at Penn State University and author of the recent book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, […]
Recent UIP titles win ARSC awards
Two titles recently published by the University of Illinois Press have won ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) awards. Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberback and Hill […]
Henry Mancini reviewed in Publishers Weekly
The December 19, 2011, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a review of John Caps’s forthcoming book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “In this lively, syncopated survey of Mancini’s movie music, […]
Q&A with Mark Lause, author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War
On December 26, 2011, we will publish Mark Lause’s A Secret Society History of the Civil War, which unravels the influence and power of antebellum secret societies. Dr. Lause, a professor […]
The Root and Foreword Reviews review From Jim Crow to Jay-Z
Miles White’s From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity has picked up some recent endorsements. The book examines how representations of black masculinity in musical and cultural […]
Q&A with We Are the Union author Dana Cloud
On December 5, 2011, we published We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing by Dana Cloud, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas, […]
Season’s Greetings from the Journals Department
After such a trying and tumultuous year, we in Journals thought we would lighten the mood a bit by showing you how we truly embody the holiday spirit (faces blurred […]
University of Illinois Press: Best of 2011
Yes! It’s time for my personal favorite post of the year. The Best of 2011 list is in alphabetical order by staff member’s last name. Feel free to post your list in […]