Andrea R. Morrell is an associate professor of anthropology at Guttman Community College, City University of New York. Her book Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York (Nebraska, 2025) was published last month. In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates … Continue reading Excerpt: Prison Town
Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004–2006) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is a retired presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Cotton Candy (Nebraska, 2022); Kindest Regards: Poems, … Continue reading Excerpt: Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry
Julie Brugger was previously a research social scientist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. Her book Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Nebraska, 2025) is the … Continue reading Excerpt: Public Land and Democracy in America
Susan Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (Nebraska, 2017) and Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds (NYU Press, 2014). Bare Life, … Continue reading Women’s History Month: From the Desk of Susan Falls
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a few upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in July. Jackson Adams: So much of the last few weeks has been … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Transnationalism, Eccentric Explorers, and other July books
The following has been excerpted from White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (September 2017) by Susan Falls. Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Preface My son has more than twenty-five siblings—milk siblings, that … Continue reading Excerpt: White Gold
The Anthropology of Contemporary North America Series is one of UNP’s newest initiatives. The aim of this series is to publish teachable, empirically rich, and conceptually innovative books that contribute to the comparative anthropology of North America, emphasizing ethnographic approaches … Continue reading A Closer Look at the Anthropology of Contemporary North America Series
Tayler Lord and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP who share a cubicle and cannot stop talking about books (or caffeinated beverages, for that matter). Today they also share their thoughts about a few upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Breast Milk Sharing, Theme Parks, and other September Books
The aim of the Anthropology of Contemporary North America Series is to publish teachable, empirically rich, and conceptually innovative books that contribute to the comparative anthropology of North America, emphasizing ethnographic approaches to contemporary subject matter. The following is an … Continue reading Excerpt: Governing Affect
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