It’s Italian American Heritage Month! Get to know our Italian and cultural studies journals to stay up to date on new research, book reviews, creative work, and more. Plus, check […]
Celebrating Italian American Heritage

It’s Italian American Heritage Month! Get to know our Italian and cultural studies journals to stay up to date on new research, book reviews, creative work, and more. Plus, check […]
Calling all film scholars! Back by popular demand, Journal of Film and Video, the official journal of the University of Film & Video Association, is releasing a reading list of […]
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States that is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery. The holiday’s name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words “June” […]
Created by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, this month celebrates the African American musical influences that comprise an essential part of our nation’s treasured cultural heritage. Let’s dig in with […]
Looking to dive into some fascinating sports scholarship? Check out our multimedia reading/listening list, featuring podcast episodes from our show, The UPside, that focus on articles from the Journal of […]
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month—a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. In celebration of this month’s festivities, we are so pleased to […]
May is Labor History Month—a celebration of the achievements of American workers and their struggle to get better rights. We are happy to offer a glance at some our most […]
National Jazz Appreciation Month is an annual event held every April to recognize the significant contribution of jazz music to society and to celebrate its cultural and historical importance. Please […]
Please join us in honoring women’s history every month and especially in March, as we celebrate with some of our highly anticipated women’s history publications. Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth […]
African American Studies is a cornerstone of the University of Illinois Press. While we honor Black history all year, this month we’re celebrating with some of our favorite and forthcoming […]
Jazz and Culture is a bi-annual publication devoted to publishing cutting-edge research on jazz from multiple perspectives. Founded on the principle that both scholars and musicians offer invaluable contributions, the […]
December 6th is Finland’s Day of Independence, marking the date that the country declared its independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution. Join us in recognizing […]