Digging Up Joe’s House
10/28/2008
Richard F. Veit, associate professor of anthropology at Monmouth University, has been digging to unearth the foundations of Joseph Bonaparte's first house. Veit and his students have uncovered more than… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
Q&A with Penn Press Director Eric Halpern
10/17/2008
Read what our Director Eric Halpern has to say about the mission of University of Pennsylvania Press, changes in the scholarly publishing world, the Press relationship with the University, and… READ MORE
J. A. Leo Lemay
10/16/2008
We at Penn Press are sad to note the loss of one of our authors, J. A. Leo Lemay, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University… READ MORE
London Review of Books Uses Sherman’s Used Books
10/13/2008
Marginalia and manicules were just a few of the subjects touched upon by Leah Price in When to Read Was to Write,” a recent London Review of Books piece on… READ MORE
Penn Press Collaboration with Dissent Magazine
10/01/2008
We at Penn Press are pleased to announce that we will soon be publishing Dissent, the venerated quarterly political magazine edited by Mitchell Cohen and Michael Walzer. For more information,… READ MORE
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
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
