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Director of University of North Carolina Press
you're surely referring to the three
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titles there.
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UNC Press
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We're hiring! We're now accepting applications for the W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor, an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields. Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️
bit.ly/3US7Ihq
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W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor – AUPresses Jobs
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Christopher McKnight Nichols
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No offense to all the other great editors, series, & presses out there in the history publishing game, but this is the best team doing
#international
#history
🗃️
#SHAFR
@uncpress.bsky.social
@renatakeller.bsky.social
@juliairwin.bsky.social
@dgershenowitz.bsky.social
@drjsarkar.bsky.social
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Sonya Bonczek
4 months ago
Today I officially join the 40 club--and get to celebrate not just my own promotion, but also the incredibly well-deserved promotion of the best teammate anyone could ask for,
@hkyria.bsky.social
🎉 🎉 🎉
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If I'm counting right, of the 6 books that were either winners or finalists for Pulitzers in history and general non-fiction, 4 were published by university presses. A fifth author had an early career UP work. Our work has never been harder. And never more relevant.
#ReadUP
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5 months ago
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UNC Press
5 months ago
Huge congratulations to
@kathleenduval.bsky.social
, former member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her book NATIVE NATIONS 🎉👏
college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...
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UNC-Chapel Hill historian Kathleen DuVal wins Pulitzer Prize - College of Arts and Sciences
Kathleen DuVal, a historian in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, has received a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America."
https://college.unc.edu/2025/05/duval-pulitzer/
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Sonya Bonczek
5 months ago
In NYC with
@uncpress.bsky.social
’s new Fall/Winter 2025 catalog! The cover is from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social
’s definitive, nuanced, and unflinching book on the complicated history of the Girl Scouts. More media calls today, let’s earn that publicity badge🫡
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Dream Team panel
#OAH25
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6 months ago
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UNC Press
6 months ago
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
@oieahc.bsky.social
is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI effective August 10, 2025. For more than half a century, OI books have been published in partnership with UNC Press.
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The Omohundro Institute Welcomes a New Editor of Books - UNC Press Blog
March 28, 2025—The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI and Associate Professor in the Departmen...
https://uncpressblog.com/2025/03/31/the-omohundro-institute-welcomes-a-new-editor-of-books/
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈
6 months ago
Free to read now.
www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
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No Common Ground (full reading copy) : The University of North Carolina Press
https://www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZBvqJ
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Achievement unlocked. Thanks friends at
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 months ago
I'm not sure there's ever been a greater author photo.
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UNC Press
7 months ago
Did you hear? COLD WAR COUNTRY: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism by
@jmthompson.bsky.social
is a finalist for the
@latimes.com
History Book Prize 🎉👏🤩
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-02-19/la-times-book-prizes-finalists-2024
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UNC Press
7 months ago
New on the UNC Press Blog, Path to Open: A History. Learn about the multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to OA books. The story begins in early 2021 when
@jesherer.bsky.social
UNC Press had a new idea for supporting open access books. Reposted with permission from ACLS.
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Path to Open: A History - UNC Press Blog
The following originally appeared on the American Council of Learned Societies website, and is reposted here with permission. Path to Open—now beginning its third year—is a multiyear pilot that offers...
https://uncpressblog.com/2025/02/13/path-to-open-a-history/
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Longleaf Services, Inc.
8 months ago
Check out our top-selling titles in January, from
@cornellupress.bsky.social
,
@ivpress.bsky.social
,
@upittpress.bsky.social
,
@unmpress.bsky.social
,
@uncpress.bsky.social
,
@univnebpress.bsky.social
,
@ugapress.bsky.social
, and Purdue U.P.
#publishing
#books
#academicwriting
#universitypress
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Sonya Bonczek
10 months ago
HUUUUUUUUUUGE
@uncpress.bsky.social
+ OI news: Co-winners of the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie Noire - WOOOOHOOOOO!!!
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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Martin Paul Eve
10 months ago
OA increases availability and doesn't discriminate against those without wealth. Everybody benefits.
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UNC Press
10 months ago
Trying to focus but all we can think about is the Spring 2025 galleys the have started to arrive at the office 🤩🙌
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I have the same feeling. And it's an interesting chance to try and get it right this time. Which is why I'm mostly listening and amplifying.
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UNC Press
11 months ago
To make it easier to find new and existing members of Bluesky, we're compiling a list of UNC Press authors for easy findability 🦋 Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚https://go.bsky.app/RKSF82c
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UNC Press
11 months ago
We are proud to collaborate with, and rely on the support of many integral partners for UNC Press's
#openaccess
#OA
initiatives that include: Project Muse
@jstor.bsky.social
@nehgov.bsky.social
ACLS UNC System Janeway
uncpressblog.com/2024/10/23/a...
#OAWeek2024
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Advancing Open Access through Community Collaboration - UNC Press Blog
At UNC Press, the broad dissemination of scholarship is core to our mission, so we enthusiastically share the vision of many Open Access (OA) advocates. Despite the opportunities afforded by digital f...
https://uncpressblog.com/2024/10/23/advancing-open-access-through-community-collaboration/
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UNC Press
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"Until there is a significant new investment in publishing resources for campus-based publishers, we will be relying on gradual steps toward a more inclusive and high-impact OA model."—Spangler Family Director
@jesherer.bsky.social
#OAWeek2024
post on the UNCP Blog
uncpressblog.com/2024/10/23/a...
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Advancing Open Access through Community Collaboration - UNC Press Blog
At UNC Press, the broad dissemination of scholarship is core to our mission, so we enthusiastically share the vision of many Open Access (OA) advocates. Despite the opportunities afforded by digital f...
https://uncpressblog.com/2024/10/23/advancing-open-access-through-community-collaboration/
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UNC Press
11 months ago
⬇️🎧
@dawnd.bsky.social
Dawn Durante, UNC Press Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director talks academic and university press publishing on Academic Aunties podcast:
www.academicaunties.com/episodes/dem...
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Demystifying Book Publishing - Academic Aunties - Stories and Advice from Survivors of Academia
We take a deep dive into the world of academic book publishing. If you're in academia, you probably have, or want to work with a university press to publish your work. And at the heart of the book pub...
https://www.academicaunties.com/episodes/demystifying-book-publishing/
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Maris Kreizman
12 months ago
Bookshop is having its anti-Prime sale. Free shipping on everything. Go buy some books!
bookshop.org
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
https://bookshop.org/
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UNC Press
12 months ago
The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Public Radio has published a vetted list of ways to donate and help that will be updated periodically:
uncpressblog.com/2024/09/30/h...
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Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief - UNC Press Blog
The staff of UNC Press's hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina, as well as the other southern states that are impacted by this his...
https://uncpressblog.com/2024/09/30/hurricane-helene-disaster-relief/
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Sonya Bonczek
about 1 year ago
Any book publicists on here that I’m not already following? 📚📣👋🙋♀️
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Association of University Presses
about 1 year ago
Interested in academy-owned publishing? Plan to attend the University-Based Publishing Futures launch, Sept 30 1pm EDT. Learn abt this new initiative, the product of conversations among university presses, library publishers & research libraries. More info & registration:
https://bit.ly/4gmb9Xa
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John Sherer
UNC Press
about 1 year ago
Congratulations GUN COUNTRY: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt, selected for the 2024
#CundillHistoryPrize
shortlist! 🎉
www.cundillprize.com/news/2024sho...
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The 2024 Cundill History Prize Shortlist | Cundill Prize
The Cundill Prize in Historical literature is a book prize and literary award established by Peter Cundill
https://www.cundillprize.com/news/2024shortlist
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UNC Press
about 1 year ago
Feeding the Elephant, a blog regularly publishing about scholarly communications in the arts, humanities, and social sciences is turning five 5️⃣🎉 We’re proud that our very own Editorial Director
@dawnd.bsky.social
is one of the three powerhouses behind this feminist-run collective 👏
bit.ly/4cQqUTn
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Feeding the Elephant is Turning Five! | H-Net
A post from
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You have been an inspiration to me and many others in your scholarship, vision, and engagement. You've also been a model for how to live. Thank you and congratulations, my friend.
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UNC Press
over 1 year ago
Congratulations are in order for Dawn Durante
@dawnd.bsky.social
, who has been named the Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director of the University of North Carolina Press.
uncpressblog.com/2024/05/29/d...
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Dawn Durante becomes Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director at UNC Press - UNC Press Blog
Dawn Durante has been named the Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director of the University of North Carolina Press. She will lead a department of twelve during a key growth period for the Press’s book pro...
https://uncpressblog.com/2024/05/29/dawn-durante-becomes-wyndham-robertson-editorial-director-at-unc-press/
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UNC Press
over 1 year ago
📚 Fall 2024 UNC Press frontlist catalog is here—featuring new books (all available for preorder) by
@katemasur.bsky.social
@chriscooperwcu.bsky.social
@nkalamb.bsky.social
@derekcrim.bsky.social
📚
ow.ly/KVZC50RAm6V
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
over 1 year ago
Some news. Our (
@derekcrim.bsky.social
and I) book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* now has a cover and is available for preorder in all formats. Please do that.
www.amazon.com/End-College-...
@uncpress.bsky.social
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Roger Schonfeld
over 1 year ago
The
@jstor.bsky.social
Access in Prisons program is part of a broader initiative across our organization that also includes an extensive and growing research and advisory program on Justice Initiatives at
@ithakasr.bsky.social
sr.ithaka.org/our-work/jus...
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Justice Initiatives - Ithaka S+R
People in prison face numerous obstacles that prevent them from obtaining a quality postsecondary education—from a lack of academic materials, library
https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/justice-initiatives/
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UNC Press
over 1 year ago
We're pleased to present the UNC Press Annual Report for 2023, which provides an overview of publishing endeavors, financial results, fundraising efforts, initiatives and partnerships, and award wins.
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UNC Press
over 1 year ago
Learn about the history of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in MAY WE FOREVER STAND: A History of the Black National Anthem (@UNC_Press, 2018) by Imani Perry ### Feb. 12, 1900: “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Was First Publicly Performed—via @Zinn Ed Project
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Feb. 12, 1900: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Was First Publicly Performed - Zinn Education Project
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first publicly performed by 500 school children in Jacksonville, Florida. Later, the NAACP adopted the song as the Black National Anthem. The lyrics spoke out against r...
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lift-every-voice-and-sing/
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Stephanie DeGooyer
over 1 year ago
In the flesh, this Thursday at UNC
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈
almost 2 years ago
I really enjoyed this conversation about the Arlington Confederate monument & hope others will find it instructive. Thanks for providing the platform
@kevinmlevin.bsky.social
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Dawn Durante
almost 2 years ago
Wondering what the
#FeedingTheElephant
team has been reading, watching, and listening to? You’re in luck!
@catherinefte.bsky.social
,
@emily-elliott.bsky.social
, and I share some new scholarly communication highlights—including my personal favorite new podcast,
@draftingthepast.bsky.social
.
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The Elephant Roundup (November 2023) | H-Net
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications. This month, we are taking a new approach with our Elephant Roundup by highlighting what our editorial team has be...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20014456/elephant-roundup-november-2023
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UNC Press
almost 2 years ago
UNC Press is pleased to announce that
@lucaschurch.bsky.social
has been promoted to Executive Editor.
uncpressblog.com/2023/11/01/l...
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Lucas Church Promoted to Executive Editor - UNC Press Blog
UNC Press is pleased to announce that Lucas Church has been promoted to Executive Editor Lucas joined UNC Press in 2013 as an editorial assistant, after working for the Press as an intern during his...
https://uncpressblog.com/2023/11/01/lucas-church-promoted-to-executive-editor/
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Dawn Durante
almost 2 years ago
It's here! GOTHAM'S WAR WITHIN A WAR: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City by Emily M. Brooks reexamines urban policing in NYC. New in
@uncpress.bsky.social
's Justice, Power, and Politics series.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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UNC Press
about 2 years ago
📖 GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨 Head over to @goodreads and enter for a chance to win an advance review copy (ARC) of THE VICE PRESIDENT'S BLACK WIFE: the Untold Life of Julia Chin by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (a Ferris and Ferris Book). Giveaway open 9/22/23-10/4/23
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (A Ferris and Ferr...
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 22-Oct 04, 2023. UNC Press is giving away 10 advance review copies of THE VICE PRES...
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/374781-the-vice-president-s-black-wife-the-untold-life-of-julia-chinn
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