04/10/2025
Penn Press is thrilled to announce that Hannah Pollin-Galay’s 2024 book Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish recently won a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book… READ MORE
09/29/2015
Marina Rustow, photo by John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, licensed under Creative Commons (CC-BY) Marina Rustow, historian and coeditor of Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and… READ MORE
08/05/2015
Penn Press is pleased to congratulate our author Michael Guasco, whose book, Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World, has been named a finalist for the… READ MORE
12/24/2014
As the year winds down to a close, we thought we'd take a look back on 2014's award winners. Each year, many Penn Press books are recognized as leading works… READ MORE
12/10/2013
Liisa Kauppinen, who contribued an essay to Human Rights and Disability Advocacy, is a winner of the 2013 United Nations Human Rights Award Prize. Kauppinen will receive the prize today… READ MORE
10/08/2013
Congratulations to Mirjam Zadoff. Her book, Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture won this year’s Salo Baron Prize the best first book in Jewish studies…. READ MORE
06/12/2012
Congratulations to Pawel Maciejko, winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for the outstanding first book in Jewish studies published in 2011. The American Academy of Jewish Research selected Maciejko… READ MORE
05/01/2012
This May Day evening, the Sidney Hillman Foundation will present historian Nelson Lichtenstein with the 2012 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History at a ceremony in New York City. Lichtenstein… READ MORE
03/27/2012
Congratulations to Christopher MacEvitt, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. MacEvitt's The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance received the Medieval Academy of America’s… READ MORE
02/16/2012
Hot on the heels of the Foundation for Landscape Studies announcement that a forthcoming Penn Press book will receive a David Coffin Publication Grant, we learned today two of our… READ MORE
