We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 LAWCHA (Labor and Working Class History Association) Gutman Prize! Congratulations to Alina R. Méndez, whose dissertation titled “Cheap for Whom? Migration, Farm Labor, and […]
“Media, Geopolitics, and Power” by Herman Wasserman Named Book of the Year by ICA!
We are pleased to announce that Media, Geopolitics, and Power: A View from the Global South by Herman Wasserman was named Book of the Year by the Global Communication and Social Change […]
Q&A with Erika K. Jackson, author of “Scandinavians in Chicago”
Erika K. Jackson is an associate professor of history at Colorado Mesa University. She recently answered some questions about her book, Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America. […]
Thank You, University of Illinois Press Staff, for Your Incredible Generosity as Mentors!
As part of the special blog tour in honor of Mark Saunders, we celebrate the generosity our staff demonstrates toward every student who walks through our doors. Over the last […]
Mark Your Calendars for Radical Illini: Conversations on Student Activism
Join us October 4-5 on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for conversations on past and present student activism in honor of our new book by Michael Metz, Radicals in […]
Call for Book Proposals: Studies in Sports Media, Edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan
If sport provides a powerful lens through which social norms are produced, reproduced, and challenged, sports media compose key mechanisms through which these meanings are built and communicated. As studies […]
Summer Sale 2019 June 3-14, All Books 40% Off!
The semester has finally ended and that means it’s time to catch up your TBR pile. To help you stock your shelves, we’re having a summer sale! June 3-14, use […]
Round the Press Intern, Laura Coby, on Learning Scholarly Publishing
The following is a guest post from intern Laura Coby, a graduate student in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the past three years, we’ve partnered with […]
Cicero M. Fain III on “Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story”
Cicero M. Fain III is a professor of history at the College of Southern Maryland. He recently answered some questions about his new book Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story. _______________________________________ Q: […]
Linda A. Morris on “What is Personal about Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc?”
Linda A. Morris is a Professor of Emeritus at UC Davis. Her current research is on gender play in the works of Mark Twain. Her earlier published work focused primarily […]
Rediscovering the Black Arts Movement, Jonathan Fenderson on Hoyt Fuller
Jonathan Fenderson is an assistant professor of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He recently answered some questions about his new book Building the Black Arts […]
Q&A with Melanie Holmes, author of A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A Johnston
Melanie Holmes is the author of The Female Assumption, recipient of a 2014 Global Media Award from the Population Institute. She recently answered some questions about her new book, A Hero on […]