It’s that time of year again! The University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or […]
Michael Metz, author of Radicals in the Heartland Lecture at the YMCA Friday Forum
On March 29, 2019 Michael Metz, author of the new book Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois gave a lecture at the YMCA […]
Melissa Phruksachart “On Mentoring Future Faculty of Color”
Melissa Phruksachart (prook-sa-chart) is LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. She teaches and researches across Asian/American studies, women of color […]
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America awarded Irving Lowens Book Award from SAM
We are pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has won the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music (SAM). […]
Candis Bond on “Catcalling and the College Classroom”
Candis E. Bond is an assistant professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Augusta University, where she also serves as director of the university writing center. Her areas […]
Authors on Issues: James E. Dobson on Critiquing Digital Humanities Methods
The following is a guest post from James E. Dobson, author of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology. The sheer number of sessions on the digital humanities […]
Our Next One Hundred Years
As the scholarly press of a public, land grant university, our mission is to disseminate knowledge that will equip citizens—regionally, nationally, and globally—to understand and engage with the societies they […]
Q&A with Christopher J. Smith, author of Dancing Revolution
Christopher J. Smith is a professor, chair of musicology, and founding director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. He is the author of the […]
S. Tay Glover discusses Feminist Teacher Article
We have been sharing blog posts and Q&As from the contributors to Feminist Teacher 27.2-3, a special issue focused on the experiences of women of color in the academy. Below, S. […]
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 […]
Q&A with Noah Brooks: An Excerpt from Lincoln’s Confidant
Check out an excerpt from Lincoln’s Confidant by Wayne C. Temple, in which Noah Brooks completes an 19th century approximation of our modern-day personality quizzes. Through his answers, we get […]
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America Awarded 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Award
We are pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has won the 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and […]