University of Washington Press

Today is the first day of University Press Week, when publishers and readers around the globe celebrate and raise awareness of the vital work that university presses do every day. This year’s theme, #StepUP, highlights how university presses worldwide step up to educate and enlighten, motivate and inspire, support and act. As part of the #UPWeek blog tour and today's prompt—Who StepsUP at your press?—we are featuring an excerpt from KERNELS OF RESISTANCE: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power by author-activist Liza Grandia. Read about Grandia's work with Indigenous-led food movements in Mexico and Guatemala:

As we look forward to University Press Week (November 11–15), enjoy this wonderful article by Catherine Cocks, director of Syracuse University Press, on the value of the public humanities: https://lnkd.in/gwS2Qnby We are proud to be among the many university presses publishing "essential resources like dictionaries and grammars for Indigenous communities who are breathing life into languages nearly suffocated by colonialism." #UPWeek #StepUP

The Bill Holm Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary! Join us in marking this milestone for the globally accessible learning center dedicated to the study of Native arts of the Northwest. Since 2014, UW Press has proudly partnered with the center on a series of books that foster appreciation of the dynamic cultural and artistic expressions of the Indigenous peoples of the greater Pacific Northwest. Books in our Bill Holm Center series and a wide selection of Native art books will be featured at the 20th Anniversary symposium and reception at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on Saturday, November 2. Learn more: https://ow.ly/fe6t50TVUC0

Learn about the inaugural book in our new Critical Filipinx Studies series, CARING FOR CAREGIVERS: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis, in a Q&A with author Valerie Francisco-Menchavez and series editor Robyn Magalit Rodriguez. #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

Happy #OAWeek2024!! What a wonderful reason to revisit the remarkable history finalists from the 2024 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Arcadia #OpenAccess book prizes, including titles from Duke University Press, The University of North Carolina Press, University of Washington Press, and University of London Press: https://lnkd.in/eZSqEhTH

We are thrilled to announce that Lisa Gail Collins was awarded the Horowitz Book Prize from Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture for her book, STITCHING LOVE AND LOSS. A moving meditation on a singular quilt, the book illuminates the perseverance and creativity of the African American women quilters in a rural Black Belt community.

Congratulations to Megan A. Smetzer. PAINFUL BEAUTY: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience was awarded the Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lisa Gail Collins was shortlisted for STITCHING LOVE AND LOSS: A Gee's Bend Quilt. The Eldredge Prize, named in honor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's former director (1982–1988), is sponsored by the American Art Forum, a patrons' support organization. This annual award, initiated in 1989, recognizes originality and thoroughness of research, excellence of writing, and clarity of method.

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center recently announced the 2024 National Book Award recipients. ✨ Congratulations to the winner Kaitlin P. Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida), author of “Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California,” published in 2023 by the University of Washington Press. The annual award recognizes scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous studies. In addition, the committee awarded the honorable mention to “American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota” by Kasey R. Keeler (Tuolumne Me-Wuk and Citizen Potawatomi) and published by the University of Minnesota Press. Read about the recipients in ASU News! https://lnkd.in/gv3s_ftH

How safe are civil rights today? Historian Kimberly Jensen examines the hunt for internal enemy "others" in early 20th-century Oregon to illustrate the need to maintain and fight for civil rights and civil liberties protections for all. Read our Q&A at the link below. Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.

Congratulations to UW Press authors Peter Blecha (STOMP AND SHOUT) and Tom Fucoloro (BIKING UPHILL IN THE RAIN) and all of the talented finalists for the 2024 Washington State Book Awards. Sponsored by the Washington Center for the Book, the Washington State Book Awards recognize outstanding books published by Washington authors.