University Press Week 2026, November 9-13, celebrates the collective vigor of our global scholarly publishing community. Mission-driven, creative, and collaborative practices enable university presses worldwide to PowerUP every day, using our energy to fuel publications, projects, and initiatives that amplify our authors’ voices to inform our current moment and shape our future.
Make sure to check out blog posts from other university presses in the Association of University Presses’ (AUP) UP Week blog tour and browse the PowerUP gallery and reading list here.
As part of the Association of University Presses’ “University Press Week,” we’d like to showcase some of this year’s victories and greatest hits!
To start . . .
- Our titles received over 36 awards
- UIP is a pilot member of JSTOR’s Publisher Collections
- Our team led more than 12 publishing workshops and hosted 9 internships
South Side Impresarios, The Daley Show, and Have You Got Good Religion? were licensed for audiobooks
Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey was optioned for a film.
Our Common Life: Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall by Stephen Wade was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music by Rob Miller was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, was NPR’s Book of the Day, and named a Best Music Book of 2025 by Rolling Stone.
Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest edited by Andy Oler was featured on WBEZ – Chicago Public Radio.
Chicago Music, Seen: 100 Portraits by Jim Newberry was featured in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Buzz Busby: Father of Washington, DC, Bluegrass by Kip Lornell and Tom Mindte was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Additionally, we wanted to highlight our journals that have hit major anniversary milestones in 2026, as well as some of our special issues that have been published this year. Every year, our journals program publishes over 120 issues of quality scholarship across over 40 journals that are focused on a variety of humanities and social sciences disciplines. Below is just a snapshot of the work our journals department is incredibly proud to contribute to the academic community.
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP) focuses on Northern European literatures of the Middle Ages, covering Medieval English, Germanic, and Celtic Studies.
As the official journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology presents current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields.
The only academic journal devoted to the history of Connecticut, the Connecticut History Review is a publication of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH).
Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning.
SPECIAL ISSUE: “Aesthetics, Care, and Action,” Volume 60, Number 1, guest edited by Michael Garbutt and Soheil Ashrafi *OPEN ACCESS*
Process Studies is a journal from the Center for Process Studies dedicated to the study of the thought and wide-ranging implications of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) and his intellectual associates.
The official journal of the Immigration & Ethnic History Society, the Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH) addresses various aspects of North American immigration history and American ethnic history.
Public Affairs Quarterly (PAQ) publishes work in all areas of practically engaged normative philosophy, broadly understood to include work on issues of public concern in applied moral, social, political, and legal philosophy.
2026 Special Issue Sampling!
- “Essays on Illinois and American 250,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 119, Number 1, edited by Robert D. Sampson (See “What’s Next UP?” for more on America at 250)
- “In Memoriam. Robert W. Proctor (1949–2023) I”and “In Memoriam. Robert W. Proctor (1949–2023) II,” American Journal of Psychology, Volume 139, Numbers 1 and 2, with prefaces by Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Darryl W. Schneider, and Fábio P. Leite
- “Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, Volume 32, Number 1, guest edited by Meredith McCarroll, Anna Rachel Terman, and Krystal Brooke Carter
- “Genres, Ideologies, and the Kalevala,” Journal of Finnish Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, guest edited by Niina Hämäläinen
- “SIAP 2024—The Elemental Special Issue,” The Pluralist, Volume 21, Number 2, guest edited by Celia T. Bardwell-Jones
- “Boycotting Montreal, Moscow, and Los Angeles: The Olympics After Détente” Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, guest edited by Christopher Young and Robert Edelman
- “Roots and Fruits: Personal and Professional Pathways of Polish Émigré Women in North America” Polish American Studies, Volume 83, Numbers 1-2, guest edited by Barbara Krupa
- “In Memoriam Nicholas Rescher 1928–2024” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 1, edited by Patrick Grim
- “Queer Mormon Bodies, Belonging, and Identity” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 59, Issue 1, edited by Caroline Kline and Margaret Olsen Hemming
- “Colloquy: Charles Hamm at 100” American Music, Volume 43, Issue 3
- “Ró?ewicz Revisited” The Polish Review, Volume 71, Number 3, guest edited by Joanna Trzeciak Huss
- Special Double Issue Women, Gender, and Families of Color, Volume 13, Numbers 1-2
- “Repatriating Angel Mounds” Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Volume 50, Number 3
- “The Young Kant” History of Philosophy Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 4, guest edited by Rachel Zuckert
- “The Power of Geri Allen, Vol. 2”Jazz and Culture Volume 9, Issue 1, edited by Michael C. Heller and guest editor Yoko Suzuki
- “Migrations of the Sacred” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Volume 46, Numbers 2-3