April 1, 2022

Happy Retirement to Executive Editor Elaine Maisner!

After a stellar publishing career of more than 35 years, including almost 28 at UNC Press, our beloved colleague and executive editor Elaine Maisner has decided the time is right to take a well-deserved retirement. Elaine first entered into university press publishing by working at Yale University Press, serving in several roles in acquisitions, administration, and contracts and rights management. She joined the UNC… Continue Reading Happy Retirement to Executive Editor Elaine Maisner!

Categories UNC Press News
March 31, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Ann Bingham)

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from our Exhibits and Awards Manager Ann Bingham. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any of… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Ann Bingham)

Categories African American Studies/British History/Civil War/Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History/Gender Studies/History/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/LGBT Studies/Literature/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Reading Lists/Religion/Sociology/Women's Studies
March 30, 2022

Colin Powell’s funeral was a missed opportunity for the country

The following is a guest blog post by Sarah J. Purcell, author of Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era, reposted from the Washington Post. This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing… Continue Reading Colin Powell’s funeral was a missed opportunity for the country

Categories Civil War/Guest Bloggers/History
March 29, 2022

Reciprocity Runs in Riddims

The following is a guest blog post by Larisa Kingston Mann, author of Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power. In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann—DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer—identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart… Continue Reading Reciprocity Runs in Riddims

Categories Guest Bloggers/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Law / Legal History/Music
March 28, 2022

New Editorial Roles for Mark Simpson-Vos and Debbie Gershenowitz

As UNC Press launches its new acquisitions strategy in its centennial year, effective April 1, 2022, two senior members of the Press’s editorial team are taking on new roles to align oversight of key lists with the Press’s strategic priorities. Editorial Director Mark Simpson-Vos will substantially shift his focus, taking over responsibility for the Press’s prestigious list of general-interest and… Continue Reading New Editorial Roles for Mark Simpson-Vos and Debbie Gershenowitz

Categories African American History/American History/History/Latin American/Caribbean Hist./Military History/Religion/UNC Press News/Women's Studies
March 28, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Helen Kyriakoudes)

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from our Publicity Assistant Helen Kyriakoudes. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any of these books,… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Helen Kyriakoudes)

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Cooking / Food/Gender Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/North Carolina/Reading Lists/Religion/Sociology/Southern Studies/UNC Press News/Women's Studies
March 25, 2022

The Gendered Anatomy of “Negro Crime”

The following is an excerpt from Talitha L. LeFlouria’s Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps… Continue Reading The Gendered Anatomy of “Negro Crime”

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/History/Labor Studies/Southern/Women's Studies
March 24, 2022

2022 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting

After two years away, UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at ASEH 2022 – we hope you’ll stop by our booth! And if you can’t join us in-person, please visit our virtual booth! And be sure to check out our Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges series. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges publishes works of environmental history that explore the cross-border movements… Continue Reading 2022 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting

Categories Environmental Studies/UNC Press News
March 24, 2022

Built on Women’s Bodies

The following is an excerpt from Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong To Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification. Police power was built on women’s bodies. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in… Continue Reading Built on Women’s Bodies

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/Gender Studies/Political Science
March 23, 2022

2022 AWP Annual Meeting

After two years away, UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at AWP 2022 – we hope you’ll stop by our table T1007! And if you can’t join us in-person, please visit our virtual booth! UNC Press is thrilled to announce its new literary nonfiction series, Great Circle Books, edited by Kiese Laymon and Marie Mutsuki Mockett. Great Circle publishes literary… Continue Reading 2022 AWP Annual Meeting

Categories Literature/UNC Press News
March 23, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Susan Garrett)

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from Susan Garrett, our Sales Manager. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any of these books,… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Susan Garrett)

Categories African American Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Civil War/Cooking / Food/Gender Studies/History/Labor Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Military History/Political Science/Sociology/Southern/Women's Studies
March 22, 2022

A Photobiography of A Time and Place

The following is an excerpt from O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South, written by professor Berkley Hudson. Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus–known to locals as “Possum Town.” His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but… Continue Reading A Photobiography of A Time and Place

Categories American Studies/Excerpts/History/Photography/Southern
March 21, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Cate Hodorowicz)

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from Cate Hodorowicz, one of our newly promoted Editors. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Cate Hodorowicz)

Categories African American Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Civil War/Cooking / Food/Craft/Gender Studies/History/Jewish Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Military History/Political Science/Reading Lists/Religion/Sociology/Women's Studies
March 18, 2022

Why Woman-power in Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948? with Dr. Tanya Roth, Episode 26 of The Remedial Herstory Project

Last month Tanya Roth, educator and author of Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980, was featured on The Remedial Herstory Project’s podcast. The Remedial Herstory Project is a New Hampshire based nonprofit founded and led by women educators and advocates under the advisement of women’s historians and college professors. While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options… Continue Reading Why Woman-power in Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948? with Dr. Tanya Roth, Episode 26 of The Remedial Herstory Project

Categories Gender Studies/History/Military History/Video/Women's Studies
March 17, 2022

2022 Appalachian Studies Association Annual Meeting

We hope you’ll visit our virtual booth for the Appalachian Studies Association annual meeting! There you can browse our new & recent titles and connect with editor Lucas Church. New from UNC Press Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South by John C. Inscoe Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer behind the Appalachian Ballads… Continue Reading 2022 Appalachian Studies Association Annual Meeting

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/Appalachian Studies/Creative Nonfiction/Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/folklore/History/North Carolina/Sociology/Travel/UNC Press News
March 17, 2022

Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development

The following is an excerpt from Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European… Continue Reading Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/Political Science
March 16, 2022

The 1990 Brooks Hall Fire and 1993 Rededication: UNC Press Centennial Recollections

The following blog post was written by our current work study and Publicity Intern, Charity Frye. Since 1922, the University of North Carolina Press has published groundbreaking humanities scholarship on race, religion, gender, social justice, and more. Celebrating our 100th anniversary in 2022, the Press continues to illuminate the life of the mind by publishing works of diverse viewpoints in… Continue Reading The 1990 Brooks Hall Fire and 1993 Rededication: UNC Press Centennial Recollections

Categories UNC Press News
March 15, 2022

Three Promotions for the UNC Press Acquisitions Team

As part of an ambitious strategic growth plan to commence its second century of excellence in university press publishing, UNC Press is delighted to announce three promotions to editor for current members of the Press’s acquisitions team: Andrew Winters, Andreína Fernández, and María García. Andrew Winters joined the Press in 2017 and was most recently associate editor. Prior to joining… Continue Reading Three Promotions for the UNC Press Acquisitions Team

Categories UNC Press News
March 15, 2022

Putinomics: Putin’s Economic Inheritance

The following is an excerpt from Chris Miller’s Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia. When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What… Continue Reading Putinomics: Putin’s Economic Inheritance

Categories Diplomatic History / International Affairs/Economics/European History/Excerpts/History
March 14, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Elaine Maisner)

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from Elaine Maisner, one of our Executive Directors. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any of… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Elaine Maisner)

Categories Africa & African Diaspora/African American Studies/Asian Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Cuba/Education/Gender Studies/Islamic Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Middle Eastern Studies/Political Science/Reading Lists/Religion/Women's Studies