A New Mission Statement
01/11/2023
Penn Press recently adopted a new mission statement. In this post, excerpted from our 2022 Annual Report, the Press’s Director Mary Francis shares the new mission statement and reflects on… READ MORE
01/11/2023
Penn Press recently adopted a new mission statement. In this post, excerpted from our 2022 Annual Report, the Press’s Director Mary Francis shares the new mission statement and reflects on… READ MORE
08/04/2021
Each summer, Penn Press welcomes interns to introduce them to the world of academic publishing, asking them to participate in the ongoing work of at least one of our departments… READ MORE
07/08/2021
Effective July 1, the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) will manage the distribution of Wharton School Press’s (WSP) frontlist and backlist titles, expanding the channels through which WSP sells… READ MORE
09/03/2020
Each summer, Penn Press welcomes interns to introduce them to the world of academic publishing, asking them to participate in the ongoing work of two of our four departments: Acquisitions,… READ MORE
06/18/2020
Today, we have a guest post from Michael Chibnik, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Iowa and author of Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an… READ MORE
05/08/2020
Today we have a guest post from Sean P. Cunningham, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Texas Tech University. Here, he tells a story about how… READ MORE
02/14/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: Bank Notes and Shinplasters by Joshua R. Greenberg, which shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's… READ MORE
08/20/2019
Each summer, Penn Press welcomes interns to introduce them to the world of academic publishing, asking them to participate in the ongoing work of two of our four departments: Acquisitions,… READ MORE
08/14/2019
Each summer, Penn Press welcomes interns to introduce them to the world of academic publishing, asking them to participate in the ongoing work of two of our four departments: Acquisitions,… READ MORE
02/14/2019
Exciting new titles this season include: Force and Freedom by Kellie Carter Jackson, which provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black… READ MORE