Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- Leah Pennywark joins University of Minnesota Press as new humanities editor
- Leah Pennywark is the new University of Minnesota Press humanities editor. She starts August 26.
- Manifold Moves Toward Sustainability, Promotes Learning and Equity with Two Major Grants
- Manifold Scholarship will enter a new phase of its development, supported by two major grants, one from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and one from the National Endowment for the Humanities, allowing Manifold to solidify its structure for future sustainability and to expand its work as a leading provider of digital Open Educational Resources (OERs).
- The University of Minnesota Press partners with CUNY's GC Digital Scholarship Lab to launch MANIFOLD SCHOLARSHIP—a platform for iterative, networked monographs—with grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- The University of Minnesota Press in partnership with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York has been awarded a $732,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Manifold Scholarship. This grant marks the continuation of an ambitious collaboration between a university press and a leading digital humanities center to advance scholarly authorship and publishing in a digital environment.
- Minnesota Book Award winners
- University of Minnesota Press books News to Me by Laurie Hertzel, North Country by Mary Lethert Wingerd and The Opposite of Cold by Michael Nordskog, with photography by Aaron W. Hautala, receive Minnesota Book Awards.
- Pioneering queer studies scholar Alexander Doty dies after being struck by motorcycle
- Pioneering queer studies scholar Alexander Doty, a much-admired author, died after being hit by a motorcycle while on vacation in Bermuda
- R.T. Rybak book launch for Pothole Confidential at First Avenue on April 13
- In celebration of R.T. Rybak's memoir POTHOLE CONFIDENTIAL, First Avenue is hosting a launch party April 13 with music, ice cream, and more. This fundraiser supports the city of Minneapolis's STEP-UP youth employment program.
- Ten organizations selected for the Manifold Digital Services pilot program's second year
- The Great Minnesota Cookie Book finalist for IACP Award
- The Stories Still Need to Be Told: A Message for Our University of Minnesota Press Community
- We believe telling the stories of Minnesota, the US, and the world is more crucial now than ever. It is our mission to do just that and we are committed to bring you our stories through, and to the other side of, this crisis. It’s the people—your engagement, your scholarship, and your ideas—that animate our work and make publishing books rewarding and important, at any moment in time.
- The University of Minnesota Press announces Reading for Racial Justice open access book collection
- In an effort to promote understanding and change, the University of Minnesota Press is releasing an open access collection of antiracist books, available free to read online through August 31, 2020.