The Work of Writing Women’s Work
07/08/2025
Today’s post comes to us from Jennifer Moore, the Regents’ Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico and author of the new book Women’s Work: Building Peace in… READ MORE
Category: Anthropology
First issue of History of Social Science now available
02/26/2025
The History of Social Science has published its first issue. Sponsored by the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), the journal offers an international forum for the… READ MORE
University Press Week: How does your press StepUP?
11/15/2024
Today’s post is a part of University Press Week 2024’s blog tour. This year, the members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses)—an organization of 160 mission-driven publishers in the… READ MORE
Feeling Notes
08/22/2024
Today’s post comes from Omer Aijazi, who is a Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester and author of Atmospheric Violence:… READ MORE
Penn Press Announces New Senior Editor Elisabeth Maselli
03/03/2022
Penn Press is pleased to announce that Elisabeth Maselli will join the University of Pennsylvania Press as a senior acquisitions editor at the end of March 2022. She will be… READ MORE
In whose best interests? The detention of unaccompanied children in the U.S.
05/04/2021
Today we have a guest post from Lauren Heidbrink, an anthropologist and associate professor of human development at California State University, Long Beach. She is also author of Migrant Youth,… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2020 catalog!
09/02/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: • In Defense of Populism by Donald T. Critchlow, which argues, contrary to contemporary warnings about the dangers of populism, that grassroots activism is essential… READ MORE
Editorial Work: A look inside how academic journals operate
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
Challenging Inaction, Sustaining Life: South African HIV/AIDS Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic
04/17/2020
Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2020 catalog!
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
