Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French at the University of Michigan. She recently answered some questions about her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French […]
Category: women’s history
1619 Project Reading List: Black Women’s Activism

This August marked the 400th anniversary of slaves arriving in America. To commemorate the anniversary, The New York Times Magazine launched the 1619 Project, a major initiative led by Nikole […]
Expanding Our Open Access Publishing
We are pleased to announce that we will make three timely books open access or partial access in the coming months. UIP has embraced open access publishing as part of its […]
Celebrating 10 Years of the Women and Film History International Series
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of University of Illinois Press’ Women and Film History International series. In collaboration with film historians, Kay Armatage, Jane M. Gaines, and Christine Gledhill, […]
Celebrating Jane Addams during Women’s History Month
Just in time for Women’s History Month, the 3rd volume of Jane Addams’s papers, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence 1889-1900 is now […]
To Live Here, You Have to Fight Receives a Grant from the Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce that To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, has been selected as a […]
Q&A with Honey Meconi, author of Hildegard of Bingen
Honey Meconi is Chair and Professor of Music in the College Music Department and a professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Her many […]
Everything UIP You Need to Know at #NSWA2018
Attending NWSA this week? So are we! We’ve got some awesome events happening at our booth this year and some excellent giveaways, so stop by and say hello! Treva Lindsey […]
3rd & FINAL IPad Giveaway
The University of Illinois Press is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. In order to celebrate, we decided to do something special for our readers. In honor of 100 years, we have […]
Q&A with Naomi André, author of “Black Opera: History, Power, and Engagement”

Naomi André is an associate professor in the departments of African and Afroamerican Studies and Women’s Studies and the associate director in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She […]
2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize: Call for Papers
Call for Papers for the 2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize The University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for […]
Beyond Respectability awarded OAH Merle Curti Intellectual History Award
We are pleased to announce that Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper has won the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Intellectual History Award. […]