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: Human Rights & Law
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
Journal of Disaster Studies launches first open-access issue
08/26/2024
Penn Press is proud to announce the launch of the first issue of the Journal of Disaster Studies, a new, biannual open-access journal that publishes the work of disaster researchers… 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
The Legacy of P.C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
12/07/2023
Hans Ingvar Roth is Professor of Human Rights at Stockholm University, and he has previously worked as Human Rights Officer for OSCE in Bosnia and as senior advisor at the… READ MORE
University Press Week: When does Penn Press #SpeakUP?
11/15/2023
Today’s post is a part of University Press Week 2023’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
A Selection of Titles for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
05/11/2023
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, which pays tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s history and are instrumental in its future success. In… READ MORE
Highlights from Our Women’s History Month Collection!
03/15/2023
March is Women’s History Month, and Penn Press is marking the occasion by offering 40% off all books in our collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have… 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 Spring 2021 catalog!
03/04/2021
Exciting new titles this season include: • An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague, a sweeping, lively, and highly approachable history of American business from the nation’s… READ MORE