The highlights gathered in these “top 10” lists, curated by the 2021 University Press Week Task Force, reflect the excellence and innovation of university presses over the past decade.
Keep UP with the Next Generation
Keep UP with Creative Collaborations
Keep UP with Graphic Nonfiction and Fiction
And on Thursday, November 11, as part of the UP Week blog tour, member presses presented their own “top 10” lists of the projects that have made their presses a force to Keep UP with in the past decade.
Keep UP with the Next Generation
- The Curie Society (MIT Press)
- The Gallaudet Children’s Dictionary of American Sign Language (Gallaudet University Press)
- Greece! Rome! Monsters! (Getty Publications)
- The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer, by Jimmy Carter (University of Arkansas Press)
- Minnesota Bug Hunt (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
- Ogimaans (Anishinaabemowin translation of The Little Prince) (Michigan State University Press)
- Ollie’s First Year (University of Alaska Press)
- A Queer History of the United States for Young People (Beacon Press)
- Quills (University of New Mexico Press)
- Yang Warriors (University of Minnesota Press)
Keep UP with Creative Collaborations
- ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection (American Council of Learned Societies and University of Michigan Press)
- “Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future” book series (Howard University College of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department, and Columbia University Press)
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Georgia Humanities, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the Office of the Governor, and University of Georgia Press)
- North Broad Press (Temple University Libraries and Temple University Press)
- Not Far from Me book and community events (Ohio Humanities and Ohio State University Press and
- RavenSpace digital publishing model for Indigenous studies (University of British Columbia Press and University of Washington Press)
- SAH Archipedia (Society of Architectural Historians and University of Virginia Press
- Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote (Library of Congress and Rutgers University Press)
- University of Arizona Space Science Series (University of Arizona Press in collaboration since 2000 with the Lunar and Interplanetary Institute, Houston, Texas)
- Keeping classic Asian American literature in print (University of Washington faculty member Shawn Wong and University of Washington Press)
Keep UP with Graphic Nonfiction and Fiction
- Angelitos (Ohio State University Press)
- Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press)
- COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology (Penn State University Press)
- Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture (Fordham University Press)
- Information Now: A Graphic Guide to Student Research and Web Literacy (University of Chicago Press)
- Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning (University of Toronto Press)
- Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (University Press of Mississippi)
- Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press)
- A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay and Julian Eltinge (Columbia University Press)
- Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence (Princeton University Press
Keep UP with Climate Change
- Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis (University of Oregon Press)
- The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes (Rutgers University Press)
- Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics (University of Alabama Press)
- Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet (Princeton University Press)
- The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change (University Press of Colorado)
- Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need (Cornell University Press)
- Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and Politics (Athabasca University Press)
- Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America’s Shores (Duke University Press)
- Too Hot to Handle? The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change (Bristol University Press)
Keep UP in the Kitchen
- The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook (University Press of Florida)
- A Global Feast: Traditional Meals in a New Homeland (Otago University Press, out of print)
- The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from around the World (University of California Press)
- How to Drink like a Spy (Indiana University Press)
- Just a Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes from Our Favorite Places (University Press of Kentucky)
- My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes (University of Texas Press)
- Pancho Villa’s Saddle at the Cadillac Bar (Texas A&M University Press)
- Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness (revised edition, University of Nebraska Press)
- Rice (University of North Carolina Press)
- Scheherazade’s Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Keep UP with Podcasts
- 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
- fifteeneightyfour podcast (Cambridge University Press)
- Ideas Podcast (Princeton University Press)
- Johns Hopkins University Press Journals Podcast
- MSU Press Podcast (Michigan State University Press)
- The Oxford Comment (Oxford University Press)
- Pressing the Issue (Manchester University Press)
- Secret Feminist Agenda (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
- University of Illinois Press podcasts
- Yale University Press Podcast
Keep UP with Stand Out Books
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press)
- Atlas of the Irish Revolution (Cork University Press)
- Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue (University of North Carolina Press)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press)
- Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (University of Texas Press)
- Naked Singularity (University of Chicago Press)
- Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (South Dakota Historical Society Press)
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press)
- The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (University of Minnesota Press)
- White Fragility (Beacon Press)