Happy University Press Week 2020! Continue the blog tour by visiting these great offerings that illuminate how university presses raise up active voices:
- University of Chicago Press shares an excerpt from Hearing Happiness by historian and disability activist Jaipreet Virdi.
- University of Notre Dame Press talks about the value of university press publishing from friends of the press.
- University of Alberta Press highlights the voice and work of Valerie Mason-John in her new book of poetry, I Am Still Your Negro.
- University of Florida Press posts “Activist Archaeology: A Reading List.”
- University of South Carolina Press author Daniel M. Harrison writes about how music is key understanding the south and why it matters.
- Bristol University Press Chief Executive Alison Shaw discusses actively engaging with social issues.
- Amsterdam University Press presents a guest post from Paula Albuquerque, a visual artist and scholar.
- For University of Toronto Press, climate change educator and author Rae Andre discusses the importance of leadership in activism.
- Bucknell University Press hosts a Q&A with the contributors to African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity.
- University of Toronto Press Journals has a blog post from Henry Tran, editor of the Journal of Education Human Resources.
- Vanderbilt University Press shares the new Policy to Practice series, providing perspectives on how global health policy becomes practice.
- University of Minnesota Press features their podcast’s Mental Health Series with former state representative Mindy Greiling.
- Harvard University Press looks at how the contributors to the volume Racism in America would like to see the book used and read.
- Columbia University Press interviews Dana Fisher, author of American Resistance.