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Director of University of North Carolina Press
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John Sherer
UNC Press
5 days ago
What's that? UNC Press content delivered straight to your inbox? Yep! We're officially on Substack 😎
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Your Favorite University Press is Now on Substack
Why We're Here and What to Expect
https://uncpress.substack.com/p/your-favorite-university-press-is
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Did Duke Win?
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Clare Hooper
18 days ago
Been busy listening and thinking but some fantastic sessions today. Particularly “publishing in polarised times” and also “toxic perfectionism” with
@jesherer.bsky.social
this morning
#UPRedux2026
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press
18 days ago
Before we break for lunch,
@jesherer.bsky.social
speaks on our “Toxic Perfectionism” in the UP world.
#UPRedux2026
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Catherine Cocks
about 2 months ago
In just five weeks, usage of the 100 Path to Open titles that are now open exceeded their usage in all of 2025. Imagine a world in which all HSS scholarly books are open to all. Can we make it happen?
@acls1919.bsky.social
@jstor.bsky.social
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It’s Time to Flip! | H-Net
A post from
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20142307/its-time-flip
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UNC Press
about 2 months ago
We're looking for an office coordinator! This part‑time position is ideal for someone who’s detail‑oriented, people‑savvy, and eager to get their start in the publishing world by helping our office and facilities operate at their best. Full description here👇
uncpress.org/now-hiring-o...
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Now Hiring: Office Coordinator
UNC Press is looking for a part-time Office Coordinator to manage and streamline all front office responsibilities to keep the business’ operations
https://uncpress.org/now-hiring-office-coordinator/
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John Sherer
UNC Press
3 months ago
We're so proud that two of our authors are finalists for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize 👏 🎉 OPIUM SLAVERY by
@jonathansjones.bsky.social
CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY by Anne E. Marshall
www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/...
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Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize | |
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/lincoln
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John Sherer
UNC Press
3 months ago
Our books earned incredible recognition in 2025—take a look at all the award winners 🏆🙌
uncpressblog.com/2023/10/13/u...
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UNC Press Award Winners - UNC Press Blog
New Award Winners Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects by Daphne Lamothe 2024 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association Confederate Sympathies by Andrew Donnelly A ...
https://uncpressblog.com/2023/10/13/unc-press-award-winners/
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John Garrison Marks
4 months ago
When
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
agreed to blurb my book, I NEVER imagined he’d call it “exceptional” and certainly not “how history should be done.” Clint’s amazing work is read and respected by every public historian I know. Having kind words from him is a real honor.
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Association of University Presses
4 months ago
Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences.
https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj
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this will be important work, for sure. And a dream team of Co-PIs
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John Sherer
UNC Press
5 months ago
We're excited to share that Andrew Kinney will join UNC Press as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor 🎉 "UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇
bit.ly/4i7t3yb
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UNC Press Welcomes Andrew Kinney as W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor - UNC Press Blog
The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce that Andrew Kinney will join the Press on December 1, 2025, as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor, leading acquisitions for th...
https://uncpressblog.com/2025/11/18/unc-press-welcomes-andrew-kinney-as-w-hodding-carter-iii-executive-editor/
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Sonya Bonczek
5 months ago
I am THRILLED to get to work with Andrew again (we are pals from our Harvard UP days) and I am very excited for all that's to come with our new trade imprint
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/18/u...
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UNC Press Welcomes Andrew Kinney as W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor - UNC Press Blog
The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce that Andrew Kinney will join the Press on December 1, 2025, as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor, leading acquisitions for th...
https://uncpressblog.com/2025/11/18/unc-press-welcomes-andrew-kinney-as-w-hodding-carter-iii-executive-editor/
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John Sherer
UNC Press
5 months ago
It's Timeeeeee 🗣️ Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌 Start shopping 👉
uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
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you're surely referring to the three
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8 months ago
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UNC Press
8 months ago
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
http://bit.ly/3US7Ihq
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Christopher McKnight Nichols
9 months ago
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
10 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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11 months ago
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John Sherer
UNC Press
11 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
11 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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Been trying to get here for, oh, 35 years
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Dream Team panel
#OAH25
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about 1 year ago
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John Sherer
UNC Press
about 1 year 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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Adina Popescu
about 1 year ago
Going to
#OAH25
next week? I’m looking for 1/2 hour of help setting up the booth since I’m temporarily unable to lift more than 10 lbs. Willing to pay and buy lunch! If you know someone who could help DM me. 🙏
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Achievement unlocked. Thanks friends at
@natlhumanities.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 year ago
I'm not sure there's ever been a greater author photo.
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UNC Press
about 1 year 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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John Sherer
UNC Press
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year 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
over 1 year 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
over 1 year ago
OA increases availability and doesn't discriminate against those without wealth. Everybody benefits.
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UNC Press
over 1 year 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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John Sherer
UNC Press
over 1 year 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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John Sherer
UNC Press
over 1 year 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
over 1 year ago
"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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John Sherer
UNC Press
over 1 year 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
over 1 year ago
Bookshop is having its anti-Prime sale. Free shipping on everything. Go buy some books!
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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
over 1 year 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
over 1 year ago
Any book publicists on here that I’m not already following? 📚📣👋🙋♀️
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Association of University Presses
over 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
over 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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John Sherer
UNC Press
over 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
https://bit.ly/4cQqUTn
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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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John Sherer
UNC Press
almost 2 years 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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John Sherer
UNC Press
almost 2 years 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
almost 2 years 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-...
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