Press Releases
The latest news, awards, and other press releases from University of Minnesota Press.
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Black Lives Matter: Free Antiracist Reading
Apr 13, 2021
- We must all be a part of dismantling white supremacy in its many forms, including and especially racial profiling.
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Announcing the publication of the MMPI-3
Nov 02, 2020
- The MMPI-3 is the first full revision of the test since the late 1980s.
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Manifold Moves Toward Sustainability, Promotes Learning and Equity with Two Major Grants
Oct 28, 2020Minneapolis, MN
- Manifold Scholarship enters a new phase of its development.
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The University of Minnesota Press announces Reading for Racial Justice open access book collection
Jun 03, 2020Minneapolis, MN
- 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.
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Fundraiser announced for second edition of Minnesota's Natural Heritage by John Tester
May 28, 2020Minneapolis, MN
- We're asking for support to help us publish the book at a price and scale that will make it widely accessible to Minnesota’s classrooms, libraries, and independent bookstores. We appreciate gifts of any amount.
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The Stories Still Need to Be Told: A Message for Our University of Minnesota Press Community
Mar 25, 2020Minneapolis, MN
- We believe telling the stories of Minnesota, the US, and the world is more crucial now than ever.
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UPDATE 3/21: A note about web orders, events, and conferences during the Covid-19 pandemic
Mar 21, 2020
- Orders from our website will be delayed; most author events through mid-May have been cancelled. We will update this space as we receive more information.
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Joanna Frueh, trailblazing writer, performance artist, scholar, and art historian dies at 72
Feb 24, 2020
- Frueh is author of Unapologetic Beauty.
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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
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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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"extra/ordinary: The American Swedish Institute. At Play" exhibit inspired by UMP book "A to Zåäö"
Feb 07, 2020
- The exhibit is on view from Feb. 29 through July 5, 2020.
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Cheryl Minnema Wins 2020 Charlotte Zolotow Award for Johnny’s Pheasant
Feb 03, 2020
- The award is given annually for outstanding writing in a picture book for children in the birth-through-seven age range published in the United States in the preceding year.
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Jonathan P. Eburne will receive MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize
Dec 04, 2019New York, NY
- Eburne is the author of 'Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas'
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Leah Pennywark joins University of Minnesota Press as new humanities editor
Aug 07, 2019
- Pennywark is from Stanford University Press.
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Ten organizations selected for the Manifold Digital Services pilot program's second year
Jun 06, 2019Minneapolis, MN
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University of Minnesota Press wins four Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
Jun 03, 2019
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The Great Minnesota Cookie Book finalist for IACP Award
Apr 15, 2019
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Author Stuart Biegel dies at 73
Apr 11, 2019
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University of Minnesota Press at London Book Fair
Jan 16, 2019
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University of Minnesota Press to publish memoir of 2018 Olympic gold medalist and U.S. Women’s National Cross Country Ski Team member Jessie Diggins
Dec 18, 2018
- In Brave Enough, which will be out in Spring 2020, Jessie Diggins shares her own story for the first time.
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Adrienne Kennedy among 2018 Theater Hall of Fame Inductees
Sep 18, 2018
- The 48th Annual Theater Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater will be presented on Mon Nov 12 at the Gershwin.
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The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen wins 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award
Apr 27, 2018
- This book by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley has been awarded the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award in the Best American Cookbook category.
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Announcing a trilogy of Allen Ginsberg’s unpublished journals.
Apr 19, 2018
- The University of Minnesota Press will publish the first installment, IRON CURTAIN JOURNALS: JANUARY—MAY 1965, in November 2018.
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The University of Minnesota Press with CUNY’s GC Digital Scholarship Lab and Cast Iron Coding to launch Manifold Scholarship Phase Two
Apr 17, 2018
- Second phase will focus on expanding installations of the platform and developing new features
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The University of Minnesota Press with CUNY’s GC Digital Scholarship Lab and Cast Iron Coding announce the release of MANIFOLD 1.0.
Mar 30, 2018
- Manifold was developed from the ground up to integrate the publication of media-rich, networked monographs into existing university publication workflows.
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'The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen' by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley nominated for a James Beard cookbook award.
Mar 14, 2018
- Sean Sherman's cookbook is one of three nominees for the prestigious award, which will be announced in April.
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Gary Kaunonen wins 2018 Hognander Minnesota History Award
Mar 08, 2018Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Kaunonen is author of 'Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike'
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Announcing the Development of the MMPI-3
Jan 23, 2018
- 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.
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Announcing a new series: Art after Nature
Dec 19, 2017
- Art after Nature maps new aesthetic territories defined by the humanities' recent ontological turn.
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Minnesota: Where Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's career began
Oct 13, 2016Minneapolis, MN
- Two books, Positively Main Street and Highway 61 Revisited, dig into the singer's storied career and Minnesota roots
Art and Posthumanism: Cary Wolfe in conversation with Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard.
Life in Plastic: Petrochemical fantasies and synthetic sensibilities, with Caren Irr, Lisa Swanstrom, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Daniel Worden.
Live: A book launch for We Are Meant to Rise at Next Chapter Booksellers features Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura, Douglas Kearney, Melissa Olson, Said Shaiye, and Kao Kalia Yang.
