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March 2, 2020 (May 26, 2020)

Q&A with Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado, co-editors of Degrees of Difference

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Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado recently answered some questions about their new book, Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School. Contributors include: Aeriel A. […]

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April 12, 2019 (April 1, 2019)

Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee on “Reclaiming Our Time”

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Donna J. Nicol is an associate professor and the chair of Africana studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Jennifer A. Yee is an associate professor of Asian American Studies […]

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August 20, 2018 (August 20, 2018)

The Evolution of a Vision: The History of the University of Illinois Press

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Have you ever wondered how the University of Illinois Press got its start? Julie Laut, our Outreach Coordinator, takes us back to when the press was founded in 1918 in […]

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February 12, 2018

The Beginning of a University Press

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“The University of Illinois Press is destined to be one of the greatest Presses in the country.” —President Edmund J. James in a letter to the first University of Illinois […]

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October 10, 2017 (October 10, 2017)

Q&A with Lex Tate, Co-author of An Illini Place

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Lex Tate is an adjunct lecturer in journalism and advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and served as associate director of the University of Illinois Office for University Relations. She […]

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March 11, 2016

Studying Appalachian Studies wins Weatherford Award

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Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking, edited by Chad Berry, Phillip J. Obermiller, and Shaunna L. Scott has been awarded the Weatherford Award in non-fiction by Berea College […]

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November 11, 2015 (November 5, 2015)

Getting Published with a University Press: AAUP Press Week online event

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University Press Week is celebrated worldwide from November 8-14. The week is designed to draw attention to the great scholarly publishing work that challenges boundaries and stimulates thought. During Press Week […]

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November 10, 2015 (November 9, 2015)

Press Week blog tour: The Future of Scholarly Publishing

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University Press Week has been around since 1978. This week we’re joining other AAUP members to scholarly publishing concurrent with the first annual Academic Book Week (Nov. 9-16, 2015), a program […]

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November 6, 2015 (November 5, 2015)

Opening Access: AAUP Press Week online event

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University Press Week is celebrated worldwide from November 8-14. The week is designed to draw attention to the great scholarly publishing work that challenges boundaries and stimulates thought. During Press […]

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November 2, 2015 (November 3, 2015)

AAUP Press week kicks off with UIUC publishing session

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As an early kickoff to University Press Week (November 8th – 14th), two UIP staff members are participating in an informative conversation about publishing with an academic press. Daniel Nasset, […]

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October 5, 2015 (October 5, 2015)

Happy National Teacher’s Day

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Teachers affect all our lives. I mean, that you can even read that sentence is because of a teacher. Whether the word teacher conjures up images of a fearsome nun or a Miss […]

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February 19, 2014 (February 19, 2014)

Read an excerpt of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant

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“With great eloquence and pathos, N. draws on his daily life and references philosophers from Socrates to Kant to describe the netherworld of the undocumented. He takes solace in his […]

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