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Heather Skinner: Publicist and Assistant Marketing Manager; presspr@umn.edu; Phone: (612) 301-1932; [vCard ]
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Press Releases

Joanna Frueh, trailblazing writer, performance artist, scholar, and art historian dies at 72 Feb 24, 2020: Frueh is author of Unapologetic Beauty.
VERGE wins PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Humanities Feb 21, 2020: VERGE: STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS is a multidisciplinary journal publishing scholarship from Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies
William D. Green Receives 2020 Hognander Minnesota History Award Feb 19, 2020: Green, a two-time winner of this award, is author of THE CHILDREN OF LINCOLN.

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Press Clips

WPR: Laurentian Divide Feb 24, 2020: Chapter a Day, part of WPR will be reading Laurentian Divide by Sarah Stonich on their program beginning on March 2
The New Yorker: An Ecotopian Lexicon Feb 21, 2020: Review of An Ecotopian Lexicon, edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
Minnesota Monthly: Brave Enough Feb 18, 2020: Q&A with Jessie Diggins for her forthcoming memoir, Brave Enough