Today’s post comes from Jon Repetti, a Visiting Fellow at the APS Press (with whom Penn Press has a recently launched partnership) and a PhD Candidate in English at Princeton University. Originally published on the American Philosophical Society blog, his post continues the blog series he recently began with a new entry profiling Penn Press’s Digital Operations Manager Lily Simmons and her role in managing Penn Press and APS Press metadata. In my last post, I talked about APS Press’s effort to catalog and digitize our entire backlist, with the help of our partners at University ..read more

Today’s post comes from Penn Press’s Marketing Operations Manager, Tracy Kellmer, continuing a blog series in which Tracy will explore one of the books currently for 75% off in the Franklin’s Faves section of our website! One of the perks of working at a university press, and especially Penn Press, is that I am exposed to excellent scholarly treatments of a wide variety of subjects. As a member of the Marketing department, I get to know a bit about every book we publish through my engagement with its metadata, such as keywords and subject codes, and its descriptive copy, wh ..read more

History of Social Science, a new journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), will launch in early 2025 and is now accepting submissions! History of Social Science offers an international forum for the examination of the transformations of the social sciences since the early twentieth century. The journal covers a variety of disciplines, from the core social sciences of economics, political science, and sociology, to disciplines with links to natural science, such as anthropology, geography, and psycholog ..read more

Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909, and in honor of her birthday this weekend, the Editors and Associate Editors of the Eudora Welty Review took some time to reflect with Penn Press on the journal, Welty’s present-day import, and where they see the EWR moving in years to come. Their answers reveal the longstanding import of the artist that anchors the journal—a voice of and before her time—and a steadfast commitment to publishing a diverse range of scholarship that spans from traditional essays to pedagogy and engagement pieces to digital humanities. Sarah Gilbreath Ford and Rebecca L. Ha ..read more

Today’s post comes from Jon Repetti, a Visiting Fellow at the APS Press (with whom Penn Press has a recently launched partnership) and a PhD Candidate in English at Princeton University. Originally published on the American Philosophical Society blog, his post explores his initial experiences with the challenging project of digitizing the APS Press backlist. I began my visiting fellowship at the American Philosophical Society Press with a clearly delineated task. Press Director Peter Dougherty had hired me to spend three months scouring the Press’s backlist for titles that we could reprint in ..read more

Hey, baseball fans! To celebrate Opening Day, we’ve pulled together five of Penn Press’s greatest baseball books from over the years. Whether you’re interested in the players, the places, or the numbers, you’ll find something to like—and they’re all available for 40% off when you use code PENN-OPENINGDAY at checkout from now through Thursday, April 4! God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick AllenMitchell Nathanson Dick Allen is considered by some to be the best baseball player not in the Hall of Fame and by others to be the game’s most destructive and divisive force—ever. God Almi ..read more

Penn Press is thrilled to share the news that our journal Observational Studies will be participating in the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP), an initiative that enables stakeholders to collectively fund Diamond Open Access (OA) journals, meaning journals published with no charges to readers or authors. As recently announced by Lyrasis, Observational Studies will be one of eight Diamond OA journals seeking funding for three years, from 2024 to 2026, as part of the program. Since the launch of OACIP in 2020, eight participating Diamond OA journals have fully met their fu ..read more

Penn Press is celebrating Women’s History Month by sharing a collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have published in the past six years—and through the end of March, we’re offering 40% off all titles in the collection, plus free shipping on orders over $40! Today’s post showcases a handful of highlights from the collection. Browse the list below, and use code PENN-WHM2024 at checkout to receive your discount. Through the Morgue DoorColette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes A young Jewish medical intern finds, to her horror, that the Rothschild Hospital has become ..read more

The University of Pennsylvania Press is starting a new series to support cutting-edge research on and approaches to some of the most intractable challenges in the realm of urban policy. Titled Disrupting Urban Policy, the series will be edited by four esteemed urban experts: Lance Freeman, James W. Effron University Professor of City & Regional Planning and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; Derek Hyra, Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University; Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities and Professor of Sociology at Boston University; and Akira ..read more

Today’s post features Jocelyn Dawson, Director of Journals at the University of Pennsylvania Press, in conversation with Anne O. Albert, executive editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR), on the occasion of the launch of its new cover and design, which were created by Sue Hall of the Number Nine design studio. Jocelyn Dawson: Tell us about the image on the front of the new cover. What aspects of the journal’s history are preserved in the new design? Anne Albert: The new cover of JQR—volume 114, number 1—incorporates a woodcut representing an old printer’s shop. It appears as the title pag ..read more