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Author Joel Olson dies at 45
Joel Olson was a professor at Northern Arizona University and author of The Abolition of White Democracy (2004).
Author Michelle Cliff dies at 69
Cliff embraced her many identities as a light-skinned Creole, a lesbian, and an immigrant in both England and the United States to prove the intersections of prejudice and oppression.
Author Pamela Simpson dies at 65
Pamela Hemenway Simpson, an art historian who was one of the most influential figures of the last four decades at Washington and Lee University, died at her home in Lexington, Va., on Oct. 4th, 2011. She was 65.
Author Stuart Biegel dies at 73
Award: Fighting for the Future of Food
Fighting for the Future of Food by Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro has received the American Political Science Association's 2011 Lynton Caldwell Prize for Best Book in Environmental Politics published in the past 3 years.
Award: Seeking Asylum
Seeking Asylum by Alison Mountz, published by University of Minnesota Press, has received the 2010 Association of American Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.
Award: The Once and Future New York
The Once and Future New York by Randall Mason published by University of Minnesota Press has won the 2011 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award.
Award: The Right to Be Out
Barnard Hewitt Award runner-up: The Japan of Pure Invention
The Japan of Pure Invention by Josephine Lee is runner-up for the 2011 Barnard Hewitt Award on behalf of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
Honorable Mention: Big Belching Bog
Big Belching Bog by Phyllis Root and with illustrations by Betsy Bowen received an Honorable Mention at the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards.
Black Lives Matter: Free Antiracist Reading
The University of Minnesota Press is in sympathy and solidarity with the grieving family of Daunte Wright, killed by police during a traffic stop near Minneapolis on Sunday, April 11, 2021, and acknowledges the trauma and fear experienced by the Black members of our community today and every day. In order for our world to be more equitable and just, we must all be a part of dismantling white supremacy in its many forms, including and especially racial profiling. In the shadow of the Derek Chauvin trial, we affirm, once again and always: BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Cesar Chavez film opening soon
Cheryl Minnema Wins 2020 Charlotte Zolotow Award for Johnny’s Pheasant
Johnny’s Pheasant, written by Cheryl Minnema and illustrated by Julie Flett, is the winner of the twenty-third annual Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. This gorgeous, graceful story about a Native family, written by an Ojibwe author and illustrated by a Cree-Métis artist, centers on small moments of surprise.
CoffeeAndBooks.com launches
Publishers Weekly: University of Minnesota Press is one of three publishers to partner with Dunn Bros. in virtual bookstore for coffee lovers
Documentary "Pink Ribbons, Inc." opens in Canada on Feb. 3rd
Pink Ribbons Inc., a documentary film that had a well-received debut at the Toronto International Film festival last year, will open in Canadian theatres beginning Feb. 3rd, 2012.
Egyptian writer awarded Stig Dagerman prize
Egyptian writer and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi receives the Stig Dagerman prize, given annually to an organisation or writer working to protect and promote free speech.
Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis dies at 73
On November 22, 2011, Lynn Margulis died at the age of 73. She was Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, in 1999 received the Presidential Medal of Science from Bill Clinton, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"extra/ordinary: The American Swedish Institute. At Play" exhibit inspired by UMP book "A to Zåäö"
extra/ordinary, the new American Swedish Institute exhibition, is on view February 29 – July 5, 2020. Media Preview is 5-6 p.m. prior to the First Look Preview Party on Friday, February 28.
Former Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak's memoir to be published in April 2016
Fred Ho (August 10, 1957–April 12, 2014)
The saxophonist, composer, and activist dies after an 8-year battle with cancer. Press release from Big Red Media, Inc.
Fundraiser announced for second edition of Minnesota's Natural Heritage by John Tester
We are asking for your support to help us publish the second edition of Minnesota’s Natural Heritage at a price and scale that will make it widely accessible to Minnesota’s classrooms, libraries, and independent bookstores. Your support is crucial and greatly appreciated as we strive to produce this book at the highest standards while facing the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis, which has affected the book industry at all levels.
Gary Kaunonen wins 2018 Hognander Minnesota History Award
Gary Kaunonen, author of FLAMES OF DISCONTENT, has won the biennial Hognander Minnesota History Award for his book about the 1916 Minnesota iron ore strike.
Glen Coulthard receives The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought
"Red Skin, White Masks is a revolutionary work.”
UMP to publish ebooks for all titles
ebooks, digital publishing, Google Editions, Amazon Kindle
Highly regarded author and professor José Esteban Muñoz dies
Honorable Mention for the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize: Posthegemony
Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America by Jon Beasley-Murray, assistant professor of Hispanic studies at the University of British Columbia, has received an honorable mention for the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. The book will be on display as part of this prize at the 2012 Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle.
Honorable Mention for the Paul Davidoff Prize: Edward Soja's Seeking Spatial Justice
Seeking Spatial Justice by Edward Soja received one of three honorable mentions for the Paul Davidoff Prize. The Paul Davidoff award is presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) to honor the memory of a revered and respected activist academic in the field of modern city planning.
Indie Groundbreaking Publisher: UMP feature in Independent Publisher
The University of Minnesota Press is Independent Publisher’s first university groundbreaking publisher. What makes Minnesota so different? They seriously rebel against the stereotype of a stuffy academic press (which we are seeing more and more university publishers doing every day). “We try to publish work that is at the leading-edge or even on the fringes – work a little more ‘out there’ than you see at your usual university press,” Director Doug Armato explains. “We think our specific role is to take cultural and intellectual chances, and this organizational DNA can be seen in everything from the general interest and regional books we publish to the most scholarly books on the list.”
INSECT MEDIA wins the SCMS Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award
INSECT MEDIA: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANIMALS AND TECHNOLOGY by Jussi Parikka is the proud winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Anne Friedberg award for Innovative Scholarship.
Jailhouse Stories author Neil Haugerud dies
Neil Haugerud, author of Jailhouse Stories, died June 6th, 2012, at the age of 81.