What immediately interested you in taking on this series? Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Helping to steward Stanford University Press’ distinguished Series in Jewish History and Culture allows me to focus on those aspects of academic life all of us wish we had more time to enjoy: …
“I would be in public with my child and people would say, ‘well how much did she cost?’—which is very jarring.” —Linda Seligman Linda Seligman, herself an adoptive mother to a Chinese daughter, was inspired to take on the idea of how modern families are …
Out this month: Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Steven Cassedy Connected focuses on the decades from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth to …
At the dawn of the twentieth century it had become "established hearsay" that facial hair was fertile breeding ground for infectious organisms, particularly tuberculosis. The stubble we may now take for granted was once under a volley of attacks from legislators and public health activists …
ELLE UK launched a controversial project this month; editors tapped three ad agencies and three feminist organizations to form an unlikely task force. Their goal? To “re-brand a term that many feel has become burdened with complications and negativity.” That word? Feminist. The fruits of this …
Stanford University Press is excited to announce the new editors for our series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture: David Biale and Sarah Abrevaya Stein.
Above: an aerial view of Typhoon Haiyan from NASA; Below: US Marines providing disaster relief in the Philippines One week ago today, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippine Islands at Guiuan. Packing winds of greater than 190 mph, the storm was the strongest typhoon …
Welcome to the inaugural ’sup? @ SUP blog post—a new monthly forecast of what’s coming up for the Press. We’ll cover what titles are slated to launch in the coming weeks and other press-related news. Out this month: Blinded By Sight | Osagie Obasogie Seeing …
We’re celebrating University Press Week with a 37-press blog tour. Weclome to Day 2 of the tour and to the SUP blog. Today’s topic is the Future of Scholarly Communication and we’re kicking the mic over to Alan Harvey, our Director. Enjoy! In the past, …
This week we asked our Facebook and Twitter audiences, What Is a Classic? sampling insights from literarycelebrities along the way. Longevity of the text, universal relevance of content, potential to catalyze human enrichment, and collective social advancement, were all …
