Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- 2011 International Latino Book Awards: Carmen Lomas Garza
- The 2011 International Latino Book Awards has named Carmen Lomas Garza, an A Ver series book by Constance Cortez, its first place winner in the Best Arts Book (English) category.
- UPDATE 3/21: A note about web orders, events, and conferences during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Most author events through mid-May have been cancelled. We will update this space as we receive more information.
- Announcing a new series: Art after Nature
- Books published in this series engage with the politics and contradictions of the Anthropocene as a concept in order to problematize recent and influential philosophical waves like animal studies, posthumanism, and speculative realism in relation to art writing and art making.
- Announcing Forerunners: Ideas First
- Announcing the Development of the MMPI-3
- The University of Minnesota Press is currently sponsoring development of the MMPI-3 under the auspices of the Press’s Research and Product Development program, which is overseen by the University’s Office of the Vice President for Research and an external Advisory Board.
- Announcing the publication of the MMPI-3
- The University of Minnesota Press is pleased to announce the publication of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3). This is the first full revision of the test since the late 1980s and features a new, nationally representative normative sample, selected to match the 2020 US census projections for race and ethnicity, education, and age.
- Author Aaron Shapiro wins Midwestern History Association's Jon Gjerde Prize
- The Midwestern History Association today announced the winner of its annual Jon Gjerde Prize for the best book authored on a Midwestern history topic during a calendar year. The honor was conferred upon Aaron Shapiro for his book entitled The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). The award will be presented on April 17th at the annual meeting of the Midwestern History Association, which will take place in St. Louis in conjunction with the Organization of American Historians annual meeting.
- 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.