Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to Build a Community.” The following is a guest post from Katya Cengel, a freelance writer and journalist who has worked around the world. She discusses the relationships … Continue reading University Press Week: Building Community with Katya Cengel
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to be an Environmental Steward.” Visit our fellow university presses for insightful blog posts. Descriptions and links are below. The University Press Blog Tour University of Pittsburgh … Continue reading University Press Week: Environmental Stewardship
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to Speak Up and Speak Out.” The following is a guest post from Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of the recently-released memoir, The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019). Small truths, … Continue reading University Press Week: Speaking Up with Timothy Hillegonds
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to be a Better (Global) Citizen.” The following is a guest post from award-winning author Robin Hemley, whose book Borderline Citizen is coming out in March 2020. I’m Not … Continue reading University Press Week: Citizenship with Robin Hemley
Rosemary Sekora is the publicity manager at UNP and enjoys helping people who are kind to publicists, dogs, and those who work in customer service. Like many marketing departments, we’ve tried to keep up with the times of social media and … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Did You Know?
Maggie Moore is a marketing intern at UNP and is slowly drowning in her pile of to-be-read books. Who reads the acknowledgements, anyway? A lot of people skip them, and I get it. But I highly encourage you to give … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Acknowledge the Acknowledgements
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is history and makes a stop at our blog with a post from Jon K. Lauck, adjunct professor of history and political science at the University of South Dakota and … Continue reading University Press Week: History
As the 2018 Fall/Winter season begins, let’s take a moment to see what UNP was publishing fifty years ago. Compared to the more contemporary catalogs of recent years, the 1968 catalog is slim—only thirty-three pages of books—many of the titles … Continue reading Throwback to the Fall of 1968
Every year, the Popular Culture Association (PCA) honors the highest quality of scholarship in popular culture studies. This year’s PCA Awards were swept by books nominated by university presses. Books from the University of Missouri Press, University of Nebraska Press, University … Continue reading PCA Awards
Last fall UNP had the great fortune to hire Joy Margheim as an associate project editor. No stranger to the Press, Joy originally joined the Manuscript Editorial department as a project editor in 1996 after she completed her bachelor’s and … Continue reading Remembering Joy Margheim
