Each year, we take a tour of the blogs in our larger community, with a series that daily addresses different aspects of the week’s theme. This year we celebrate the ways in which university presses help Raise UP a variety of voices and ideas.
And be sure to check out the UP Week 2020 blog post series by Book Culture bookstore in New York (listed with links below), featuring conversations with university press publishers from Cambridge, Columbia, Fordham, NYU, SUNY, and Duke!
Monday: New Voices
University of Illinois Press
Meet the Press, Acquisitions Edition: An Interview with Alison Syring
Georgetown University Press
An Interview with Senior Acquisitions Editor Hilary Claggett
Duke University Press
Raising Up the Work of First-Time Authors
University of Wisconsin Press
#RaiseUP New Voices
Press committee members share their perspectives and experiences.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Perspectives on publishing and raising voices from the newest member of WLU Press
Maia Desjardins
NYU Press
The Magic of Making Books
Ilene Kalish
University of Toronto Press
UP Week Day 1: New Voices
Jodi Litvin
Raising Up Cultural Emblems and Public Art
Amanda Buessecker
University of Missouri Press
“We Have Drank from the Same Canteen”: Veteran Company A, the Civil War, and Reconciliation in Kansas City
Amy Laurel Fluker
Bucknell University Press
Amplifying Voices from Sierra Leone
Shanee Stepakoff
University of Manitoba Press
Looking Out from Anishinaabe Territory
An excerpt from Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
Brittany Luby
Amherst College Press
Introducing Amherst College Press’s Internship Program and Community Page
Hannah Brooks-Motl
University of Manchester Press
New Voices – University Press Week
Lucy Burns
Tuesday: Creative Voices
Northwestern University Press
Raising Up Creative Voices: Yxta Maya Murray
University of Michigan Press
Raising Up Creative Voices: University Press Week 2020
University of Notre Dame Press
The Value of University Press Publishing from our Notre Dame Press Colleagues
Athabasca University Press
University Press Week 2020: Creative Voices
Bristol University Press
Writing Fiction as Scholarly Praxis
Rob Kitchin
University of Toronto Press
Creating Light in Dark Times
Charlotte Corden
To Be Witnessed
Thalia Gonzalez Kane
Bucknell University Press
Curators of Creative Error
Kevin Cope
University of British Columbia Press
It’s All in the Design: The Design behind It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not)
Gerilee McBride
Wednesday: Local Voices
Temple University Press
University Press Week: Local Voices
Beverly C. Tomek and Allen Dieterich-Ward
Fordham University Press
Women’s Voices: Expanding the Audubon Park Narrative
Mathew Spady
Syracuse University Press
#RaiseUP: Local Voices
Peggy Solic
University of California Press
Raising Up Local Voices with A People’s Guides to Boston and San Francisco
Manchester University Press
Manchester: Something rich and strange
Paul Dobraszczyk and Sarah Butler
University Press of Kansas
Amplifying Local Voices with Local Partners
A conversation with Danny Caine, Raven Book Store
Penn State University Press
#UPWeek: A Q&A with Kathryn Yahner, editor of Keystone Books
University of Nebraska Press
Local Voices, Scrap Metal Heaps, and the Fate of World War II
James J. Kimble
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ASCSA Publications Participates in University Press Week 2020
An update from Sylvie Dumont, author of Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora
University Press of Mississippi
Shared Voices
John Marszalek III
University of Toronto Press
Local Voices: Another Story Bookshop
Laura Ash and Anjula Gogia
Accidental Wilderness: Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
Robert Burley
Beyond the Colonial Cartographic Frame: The Imperative to Decolonize the Map
Reuben Rose-Redwood
University of Virginia Press
Celebrating UP Week with Tom Kapsidelis, author of After Virginia Tech
Eurospan
University Press Week 2020: Recommended Reading
Thursday: Scientific Voices
University of Alabama Press
#RaisingUP Scientific Voices with NEXUS Series
A conversation with series editors Alan Marcus, Alexandra Hui, and Mark Hersey
Purdue University Press
Raising Up the Science behind the Human-Animal Bond
Princeton University Press
Six Impossible Things
Ingrid Gnerlich
Bristol University Press
The Relevance of Science Communication in the Era of COVID
Claire Wilkinson
Indiana University Press
Science and Critical Thinking
Donald R. Prothero
University of Toronto Press
Science Writing in a Time of Crisis
Mireille F. Ghoussoub
Scientific Trust in the Era of COVID-19
Lacey Cranston
Vanderbilt University Press
Stories from the Natural World
A book trailer for Between the Rocks and the Stars
Columbia University Press
6 Things to Consider before Applying to PhD Programs
Ashley Juavinett
Oregon State University Press
Rebuilding Ecological Resilience
Bruce A. Byers
Johns Hopkins University Press
When Statistics Won’t Suffice: How University Presses Can Act to Support Women in Science
Tiffany Gasbarrini
Friday: Active Voices
University of Chicago Press
Raise UP: Read an Excerpt from Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
Jaipreet Virdi
University of Notre Dame Press
Our Student Impact at Notre Dame Press
The Value of University Press Publishing from Friends of Notre Dame Press
University of Alberta Press
Raise UP: Valerie Mason-John, Social Justice Poet
University Press of Florida
Activist Archaeology: A Reading List
University of South Carolina Press
Dan Harrison, author of Live at Jackson Station, on #RaiseUP
Bristol University Press
Actively Engaging with Social Challenges as a University Press
Alison Shaw
Amsterdam University Press
Enter the Ghost: Haunted Media Ecologies
Paula Albuquerque
University of Toronto Press
Raise UP: Rae André
Rae André
Progressing a Field through Collective Thinking and Scholarship
Henry Tran
Bucknell University Press
#ActiveVoices: Q&A on African American Arts
Vanderbilt University Press
Policy to Practice: New Book Series
University of Minnesota Press
#ReadUP: Reckoning with Mental Illness
Harvard University Press
Celebrating University Press Week
Thoughts on Racism in America: A Reader
Columbia University Press
Resisters in the 2020 Election and Beyond
Dana R. Fisher
Manchester University Press
Active Voices: Manchester Book Tour
Jen Mellor
Bookculture’s UPWeek 2020 blog posts
Conversations with:
- Conor Broughan, sales rep, Columbia University Press
- Joanne Raymond, assistant publicist, Columbia University Press
- Mark Lerner, design and production manager, Fordham University Press
- Cecilia A. Cancellaro, senior editor, Cambridge University Press
- James Peltz, assistant director and editor-in-chief, SUNY Press
- Rebecca Colesworthy, editor, SUNY Press
- Mary Beth Jarrad, sales and marketing director, New York University Press
- Joshua Gutterman Tranen, assistant editor, Duke University Press