ACTIVE BOOK
SERIES
This page lists only those series for which we are currently seeking manuscripts. For a full listing of all UW Press series, see the listing of series of UW Press books in print.
Africa
and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Brittingham
Prize in Poetry
Critical Human Rights
Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry
George
L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual
History
The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History
The
History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest
Living Out: Gay & Lesbian Autobiography
New Perspectives
in Southeast Asian Studies
Print Culture
History in Modern America
Publications
of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
Sources
in Modern Jewish History
Studies
in American Thought and Culture
Studies
in Dance History Series
Wisconsin
Film Studies
Wisconsin
Land and Life
Wisconsin
Studies in Autobiography
Wisconsin
Studies in Classics
Women
in Africa and the Diaspora
Writing
in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as
The following section contains brief summaries
of many of our series, with links, when available, to a list
of books in print for the series, and expanded information and
contact information.
Thomas Spear, Neil Kodesh, Tejumola Olaniyan, Michael G. Schatzberg, and James H. Sweet, Series Editors
Historical, cultural, and political
studies of both Africa and the Diaspora, focusing on pre-colonial,
colonial, and contemporary history; political history and politics;
oral traditions and literature; anthropological approaches to
contemporary problems and issues; and historical and cultural
studies of Africans in the Diaspora.
Please send all inquiries to Tom Spear at tspear@wisc.edu
For a list of books in this series, see Africa and the Diaspora titles.
Series
Editor: Ronald Wallace, Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Department of English
The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is awarded annually to the best book-length manuscript of original poetry submitted in an open competition. The award is administered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison English Department, and the winner is chosen by a nationally recognized poet.
Click here for poetry guidelines and
editor contact information.
For
a list of books which have been awarded the Brittingham prize,
click on Brittingham winners.
Critical Human Rights
Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus, Series Editors
Interdisciplinary in nature, Critical Human Rights publishes empirically grounded and theoretically innovative work. The series emphasizes research that opens new ways to conceptualize and examine human rights. Books in the Critical Human Rights series transcend simplified accounts of perpetrators and victims, resist triumphalist narratives, emphasize the importance of local perception, incorporate socio-economic rights, and anticipate human rights problems of the future.
Please direct queries simultaneously to Steve J. Stern, Scott Straus,
and Gwen Walker.
For a list of books in this series, see Critical Human Rights titles.
Series
Editor: Ronald Wallace, Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Department of English
The Felix Pollak Prize
in Poetry is awarded annually to the best book-length manuscript
of original poetry submitted in an open competition. The award
is administered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison English
department, and the winner is chosen by a nationally recognized poet.
Click here for poetry guidelines and
editor contact information.
For a list
of books in this series, click on Felix Pollak winners.
Series Editor: Ronald Wallace, Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Department of English
The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry is given annually to one new book of poetry submitted by a past winner of either the Brittingham and Pollak competitions, and is selected by an editorial board comprised of poets in the University of Wisconsin's creative writing program.
Submissions to the Brittingham and Pollak competitions by previous winners are automatically considered for The Four Lakes Prize.
For a list
of books in this series or for more information, see: Four Lakes Prize titles.
George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural
and Intellectual History
Designed to promote the sort of
vibrant international intellectual community that George L. Mosse
created during his lifetime, which is so integral to the kind
of history he wrote, and which he admired in the work of his
students and colleagues.
Please send all inquires to Raphael Kadushin, kadushin@wisc.edu
Click here for: Complete
series information | General
questions
For a list of books in this series, click
on George
L. Mosse series titles
John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, and Brad Austin, Series Editors
The Harvey Goldberg Series gives college and secondary history instructors a deeper understanding of the past as well as the tools to help them teach it creatively and effectively. Each volume focuses on a specific historical topic and offers a wealth of content and resources, providing concrete examples of how teachers can approach the subject in the classroom.
Named for Harvey Goldberg, a professor renowned for his history teaching at Oberlin College, Ohio State University, and the University of Wisconsin from the 1960s to the 1980s, the series reflects Goldberg's commitment to helping students think critically about the past with the goal of creating a better future.
For a list
of books in this series, click: The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History
James S. Donnelly,
Jr., and Thomas Archdeacon, Series Editors
By linking Ireland and
the Irish diaspora, this series recognizes the many forms of
historical interaction between the Irish at home and abroad and
the extent to which Irish diasporan history has come to rival
Irish history in the maturity and sophistication of its scholarship.
Please send all inquiries to: Prof. James Donnelly, jsdonnel@wisc.edu or Prof. Thomas Archdeacon, tjarchde@wisc.edu at the Department of History, 3211 Mosse Humanities Building,
455 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706
For a list
of books in this series, click: History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
Joseph Salmons and James P. Leary, Series Editors
A collaboration of the University of Wisconsin Press and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the CSUMC Series on Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest invites submission of projects that focus on the lives, languages, and cultural traditions/folklore of the Upper Midwest’s diverse peoples, both historical and contemporary. The editors welcome projects from multiple disciplines, a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, and a variety of formats, including books, documentary recordings, and new media. Projects may include research monographs, texts intended for general readers or for classroom use, edited collections, translations, and new editions of out-of-print classics.
Please send one email inquiry, copied simultaneously to Joe Salmons jsalmons@wisc.edu, Jim Leary, jpleary@wisc.edu, and Raphael Kadushin, kadushin@wisc.edu
For more information, see Languages and Folklore
David Bergman, Joan Larkin and Raphael Kadushin, general editors
The Living Out series of autobiographies and memoirs aims to represent the full range of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lives, past and present.
Please send all inquiries to Raphael Kadushin, kadushin@wisc.edu
For a list of
books in this series, click here Living Out series.
Series Editors: Alfred
W. McCoy, R.
Anderson Sutton, and Thongchai
Winichaku
Associate Editors: Warwick H. Anderson, I. G. Baird, Katherine Bowie, Ian Coxhead, Michael Cullinane, Anne Ruth Hansen, Paul D. Hutchcroft, Courtney Johnson, and Kris Olds
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies publishes academic books that focus on historical and contemporary problems in this dynamic region, from local issues through global interconnections. While the series as a whole covers cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social issues, individual titles aspire to the fine-grained research and theoretical innovation long associated with scholarship on Southeast Asia. Editorial work is a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin Press and the University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, a National Resource Center which has promoted the study of this region for forty years.
Please refer to the UW Press guidelines
for submitting proposals. Direct queries to
acquisitions editor Gwen Walker gcwalker@uwpress.wisc.edu.
For a list of books in this series,
click on New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies.
James P. Danky, Christine Pawley, and Adam R.
Nelson, series editors
Established in 2002 and fostering research and writing on the mediating role that print has played in American culture since 1876, this series considers the impact of newspapers, books, periodicals, advertising, and ephemera, with special attention to populations on the margins of mainstream media. Click here for more information.
Please send all inquiries simultaneously to James P. Danky jpdanky@wisc.edu, Christine Pawley cpawley@wisc.edu and Adam R. Nelson anelson@education.wisc.edu
For a list of books in this series, click here for Print
Culture History titles.
David M. Bethea and Alexander
Dolinin, series editors
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's
national poet, the founder of its modern literary language, an
innovator across a broad range of genres, and a figure whose
biography has generated intense interest and controversy in fields
and forms as different as literature, visual art, theater, film,
and music. This series publishes works of individual and joint
scholarship that feature aspects of Pushkin's creative world
and times. Various critical methodologies and approaches are
encouraged, the primary criterion for acceptance and publication
being the quality of the research, including its importance for
the field of Pushkin studies, and the compelling nature of the
guiding idea or argument.
Please send all inquiries to David M. Bethea, dmbethea@wisc.edu
For a list of the books in this series, click
on: Pushkin
studies titles
David Sorkin, History,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, series editor
Shapes the ways that modern Jewish
history is studied and taught. Each volume will be an edited
collection of documentary sources on an important theme in the
modern experience of Jews, accompanied by annotations, critical
notes, and scholarly introductions.
Please send all inquiries to David Sorkin, djsorkin@wisc.edu
Paul S. Boyer, series
editor
Advisory Board: Charles H.
Capper, Mary Kupiec Cayton, Lizabeth Cohen,
Nan Enstad, James B. Gilbert, Karen Halttunen, Michael Kammen,
James T. Kloppenberg, Colleen McDannell, Joan S. Rubin, P. Sterling Stuckey,
and
Robert B. Westbrook.
This series offers works by both established
and emerging scholars in the humanities that illuminate and interpret
America's intellectual and cultural history. Wide-ranging in
scope, and with an advisory board of prominent scholars, the
series presents books of intellectual quality that make a significant
scholarly contribution while also speaking to the broader community
of thoughtful readers. The University of Wisconsin Press is particularly
proud to publish this series since Merle Curti, author of the
seminal study, The Growth of American Thought (1943) and
a founder of the field of American intellectual history, taught
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1942 until his
retirement in 1968.
This series continues the tradition of Wisconsin leadership in
the field
of American thought and culture.
Please send all inquiries to acquisitions editor Gwen Walker: gcwalker@uwpress.wisc.edu
For a list of books in this series, see: Studies
in American Thought
and Culture.
Studies in Dance History
volumes are published and distributed by the UW Press on behalf
of the Society of Dance History Scholars.
Founded in 1988, Studies in Dance History aims to further the
goals of the Society of Dance History Scholars by making widely
available the extraordinarily rich and diverse scholarship that
takes dance as its subject. Ranging from new methods of historical
inquiry to multiple theoretical perspectives, volumes in the
series answer a growing demand for works that provide fresh analytical
perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context.
Each volume in the series is accessible to specialist and layperson
alike, providing a valuable resource for scholars and a pleasurable
education for the general reader.
Please send all inquiries to Sarah Davies Cordova, Chair, Editorial
Board, Society of Dance History Scholars, cordovas@uwm.edu
Patrick McGilligan, series editor
Books whose fresh scholarship
or perspective will make an enduring contribution to film literature.
The range is broad, and manuscripts on all periods and national
film cultures are invited.
Please send all inquiries to Raphael Kadushin, kadushin@wisc.edu
Arnold Alanen, series
editor
Books in this series reveal the
many layers of human history and activity expressed in the state's
landscapes.
Please send all inquiries to Arnold Alanen, aralanen@wisc.edu and Gwen Walker, gcwalker@uwpress.wisc.edu
William L. Andrews,
series editor
Autobiography studies for a multidisciplinary,
multicultural, and international audience. Wisconsin Studies
in Autobiography (WSA) publishes original autobiographical writing
as well as historical and critical investigations of autobiography,
biography, diary, letters, and related forms of lifewriting. Click here for more information
Please send all inquiries to: wandrews@email.unc.edu
For a list of the books in this series, see: Wisconsin
Studies in Autobiography
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Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Laura McClure, and Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell, General Editors
Established in 1982 with a generous
bequest from Warren Moon, this series publishes books on classical
art, archaeology, literature, and culture. We accept submissions
in all areas of ancient studies, and are particularly eager to
receive books with a focus on the following: the integration
of material and literary culture; the integration of contemporary
theory with ancient texts; classical art and iconography; and
the art and archaeology of the Greek and Roman East.
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the integration of material
and literary culture
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the integration of contemporary
theory with ancient texts
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classical art and iconography
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the art and archaeology of the
Greek and Roman East
Please send all inquiries to:
Patricia
A. Rosenmeyer, prosenme@wisc.edu.
Stanlie James, Afro-American
Studies, and Aili Mari Tripp, Political Science, University of
Wisconsin–Madison, series editors
Original research concerning
African women as political, economic, cultural, and religious
actors, exploring topics such as women and religion, sexuality,
law, human rights, health, the family, the environment, conflict
resolution, race and ethnicity, women's movements and authority,
women as political and spiritual healers, women's knowledge and
ways of knowing, and women healers. In addition, the series editors
welcome manuscripts on historical and contemporary transnational
linkages as they relate to gender and invite studies that explore
commonalities and differences between African-American women
and African women in the diaspora more generally.
Please send all inquiries to Gwen Walker gcwalker@uwpress.wisc.edu
For a list of books in this series, click: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Susana Chávez-Silverman,
Paul Allatson, Silvia D. Spitta, Rafael Campo, series editors
Autobiographical works—including
memoirs, journals, collections of letters, and performance pieces—by
Latino and Latina writers who live in the U.S.
Please send all inquiries to Raphael Kadushin, kadushin@wisc.edu
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