The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce the release of twenty-two backlist titles as e-books thanks to the receipt of a grant of $199,794 from the National Endowment for […]
Backlist Titles Now Available As E-books Via NEH Grant
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Call for Papers
The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, established in cooperation with […]
Open access titles available thanks to National Endowment for the Humanities
In an earlier blog post, we announced that Cara A. Finnegan’s Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, had received a National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Award (now Fellowships Open […]
Summer Sale! Use Promo Code SUMMER22 to get 50% off all books!
If you’re looking for some hot fun this summer, use promo code SUMMER22 to get 50% off all books! Sale ends June 30, 2022. Browse all books here. […]
JOURNALISM AND JIM CROW wins awards from the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication & American Journalism Historians Association
We are pleased to announce that Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield has won two separate […]
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY QUARTERLY welcomes a new editor!
Join us in welcoming James Petrik as the new editor of the History of Philosophy Quarterly (HPQ)! Professor Petrik is taking over HPQ from Volume 40, 2023. James Petrik is […]
DREAM BOOKS AND GAMBLERS has been awarded a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
We are pleased to announce that Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund has awarded a grant to support publication of the book Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women’s […]
Refresh for the Women and Film History International series
We are happy to announce that you will see new books coming from assistant acquisitions editor Mariah Schaefer in the near future. Mariah has been working on charting the future […]
Refresh for the History of Communication Series
Jane Rhodes and Lisa Parks are delighted to build on and invigorate the University of Illinois Press’ History of Communication series, renamed The History of Media and Communication. The books in the […]
We’re hiring an Associate Editor
The University of Illinois Press seeks an Associate Editor to shepherd complex and routine scholarly manuscripts through editing and proof stages. Additional responsibilities include: Shepherd new manuscripts (ca. 30 per […]
Margaret Simon awarded the ESWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award
We are pleased to announce that Margaret Simons, the editor of The Beauvoir Series, has been awarded the ESWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award for 2021. One of the nominators described […]
Jennifer Argo Promoted to Managing Editor
We’re pleased to announce that after a national search, Jennifer Argo has been promoted to Managing Editor. Congratulations Jennifer! […]