The Journal of Civil and Human Rights is now accepting submissions for the December 2020 issue. Proposals will be accepted until the end of June 2019. The Journal of Civil and Human Rights is […]
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 the Authors of Hockey: A Global History
Stephen Hardy is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Andrew C. Holman is a professor of history and the director of Canadian […]
Dockworker Power First Recipient of a Grant from the Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce that Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole has been selected as […]
University of Illinois Press Best of 2018
Every December since 2007 we have posted an annual list of our pop culture favorites. The University of Illinois Press Best of 2018 edition is in alphabetical order by staff […]
Education Reading List
Are you an educator or interested in education? We have assembled the perfect list of books and journals to check out during the winter break. Teaching Art, (Re)imagining Identity Edited […]
Call for Proposals: 2019 University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium
2019 University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium February 15, 2019 Call for Book Proposals The University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium invites advanced UIUC graduate students and junior faculty to […]
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World Wins the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology
We’re pleased to announce that Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World by Richard Jones-Bamman has won the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology from the […]
Call For Papers for Utah Historical Quarterly
Utah Historical Quarterly (UHQ), the Press’s newest journal title, seeks papers for its upcoming issues. UHQ is the official journal of Utah history, published on behalf of the Utah State Historical Society […]
Read the Fall Issue of The Callout!
Where in the first half of our centennial we focused on events in Champaign-Urbana, this fall has brought opportunities for the Press to shine in Chicago and Springfield through partnerships […]
Visual Arts Research Invites a Discussion
In the newly-released Winter 2018 issue of Visual Arts Research, contributors Nadine M. Kalin and Daniel T. Barney offer a critique of the ways the predominant organization potentially limits the […]
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 […]