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Backlist Bop: Mythbusting an American institution

Posted on December 8, 2016 (December 2, 2016) by rkcunningham
in anthropology, immigration, law

Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief—widely held in the United States—that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the […]

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Tagged law, marriage

Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar Robert M. Marovich

Posted on December 7, 2016 (December 5, 2016) by rkcunningham
in awards, black studies, Chicago, music

Awards season in academic publishing is once again kind to the Press. A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music by Robert M. Marovich recently won a […]

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Tagged African American business, African American history, awards, Chicago blues, gospel music, Robert M. Marovich

Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar Stephen Wade

Posted on December 7, 2016 (December 5, 2016) by rkcunningham
in awards, ethnomusicology, music

Laurie C. Matheson, Director of the Press, on the latest UIP award winner. Stephen Wade, author of The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, has […]

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Tagged awards, Beautiful Music All Around Us, ethnomusicology, folk music, Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award, Stephen Wade

Sa-lute! Congratulations to bluegrass scholar Gary B. Reid

Posted on December 6, 2016 (December 2, 2016) by rkcunningham
in awards, bluegrass, music

We are pleased to announce that The Music of the Stanley Brothers by Gary B. Reid has won Best Discography in the ARSC Awards for Excellence, awarded by the Association […]

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Tagged awards, bluegrass, Gary B. Reid, Stanley Brothers, UIP authors

Our lives and all lives under the silicon heel

Posted on December 2, 2016 (November 30, 2016) by rkcunningham
in all things digital, labor history, radical studies

Excerpted from the new UIP book Goodbye iSlave, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Hans Rollman at PopMatters reviewed the book here. Welcome to a brave New World of profit making, propelled by high […]

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Tagged Asian studies, China, labor studies, slavery, technology

Backlist Bop: The Mars Project

Posted on December 1, 2016 (November 23, 2016) by rkcunningham
in immigration, travel

This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born […]

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Tagged Mars, space travel, transportation, Werner von Braun

Release Party: The Science of Sympathy, by Rob Boddice

Posted on November 30, 2016 (November 15, 2016) by rkcunningham
in European history, natural history

The new UIP book The Science of Sympathy takes readers back to the Victorian Era and into the arguments over sympathy’s place in Darwinist reconsiderations of science and humanity. Charles […]

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Tagged British history, Charles Darwin, history of science, sympathy

Guest post: Richa Nagar on the need for politically engaged scholarship today

Posted on November 29, 2016 (November 30, 2016) by rkcunningham
in anthropology, feminist studies, women's history

In the following post, Dr. Richa Nagar discusses the importance of politically engaged scholarship for scholar activists in the post-election climate. Dr. Nagar is a professor of gender, women, and […]

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Tagged activism, Asian studies, feminism, geography

200 Years of Illinois: Henry Bacon, and that’s no baloney

Posted on November 28, 2016 (November 28, 2016) by rkcunningham
in architecture, Lincoln

Reverent. Classical. (Well, neoclassical.) Uncontroversial in design, though the subject has a few fringe detractors. The Lincoln Memorial began to take shape in 1915. By then, architects and others had […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, architecture, Henry Bacon

University Press Week: A book community

Posted on November 18, 2016 (November 17, 2016) by rkcunningham
in publishing

University presses, as a rule, pay a lot of attention to their communities. That may take the form of publishing titles on their regions, or their own schools. No end […]

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Tagged community, Publishing, University Press Week

University Press Week: Getting serious

Posted on November 17, 2016 (November 17, 2016) by rkcunningham
in publishing

Yesterday, as part of our #ReadUP campaign celebrating University Press Week, a Justice League of academic publishing and book industry pros hosted a live YouTube webinar on various aspects of […]

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Tagged AAUP, Publishing, University Press Week

Release Party: Reading Together, Reading Apart, by Tamara Bhalla

Posted on November 15, 2016 (November 14, 2016) by rkcunningham
in asian american studies, literary studies

Though we often think of reading as a solitary activity, histories of reading demonstrate that it is in fact a deeply communal practice—structured and encouraged interpersonally by family and friends […]

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Tagged Asian American, Reading, Reading Together Reading Apart, Tamara Bhalla
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