A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn–Now Available
09/03/2008
A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn Ram A. Cnaan, Melissa E. Dichter, and Jeffrey Draine, Editors 632 pages | 7 x 10 | 26 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
Career Talk Columnists Discuss Updated Handbook
08/13/2008
In today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Career Talk columnists Julie Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong discuss the latest edition of The Academic Job Search Handbook. In a Q&A session… READ MORE
Boyarin and Idel Comment on Ancient Hebrew Tablet
07/07/2008
"Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection," an article in yesterday’s New York Times, outlines the potential religious significance of a centuries-old stone tablet that "may speak of a… READ MORE
Black Phliosopher, White Academy–Now Available
06/30/2008
Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine Bruce Kuklick 192 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4098-6 | $55.00 | £36.00 At… READ MORE
Bruce “Monty” Montgomery
06/25/2008
The staff of Penn Press was saddened by news of the passing of Bruce Montgomery, composer, educator, director, and author of Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with… READ MORE
Stir It Up–Now Available
06/19/2008
Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture Megan J. Elias 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4079-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 Stir… READ MORE
Richard Helgerson
04/29/2008
Staff at the University of Pennsylvania Press were saddened by the news of the death of Richard Helgerson, Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara,… READ MORE
Thomas M. Nichols on History News Network
04/16/2008
Welcome to the new age of preventive war, in which states and their leaders will no longer be content to wait for signs of imminent attack in order to strike… READ MORE
Blum Lecture Available Online
04/09/2008
In a post titled "Du Bois in the Lone Star State 2.0", The Bald Blogger has made a recent lecture by Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du… READ MORE
Medieval Academy Prize Goes to Sara Poor
04/08/2008
Sara S. Poor’s Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority has received another award. The Medieval Academy selected this study of a thirteenth-century mystic… READ MORE
