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Middle East Studies Association Conference 2021

 

MESA is a favorite event of the year for us at Stanford University Press, and we’ll miss seeing you all in person. To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the MESA Book Bazaar, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Middle East studies publishing at SUP.

 

Announcing the MESA 2021 Book Award Winners

New Books

2021 Middle East Studies Catalog

2021 Award Winners

Digital Publishing Initiative

MESA Resources

 

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Announcing the MESA 2021 Book Award Winners

 

Nikki Keddie Book Award

• Elise Burton, Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity »
• Honorable Mention, Rosie Bsheer, Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia »

 

Roger Owen Book Award

• Amr Adly, Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt »
• Honorable Mention, Aaron Jakes, Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism »

 

Fatema Mernissi Book Award

• Niloofar Haeri, Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran »

 

Albert Hourani Book Award

• Honorable Mention, Caterina Scaramelli, How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey »

American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Conference 2021

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the AAR & SBL exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of religion publishing at SUP.

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

Award Winners

AAR & SBL Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off  and free North American shipping on these and other recent SUP titles with discount code S21XAAR-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

 

 

Michael Marder discussed his book Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen » with Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Peter Schuback. Green Mass is a meditation on—and with—twelfth-century Christian mystic and polymath Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Attending to Hildegard's vegetal vision, which greens theological tradition and imbues plant life with spirit, philosopher Michael Marder uncovers a verdant mode of thinking. The book stages a fresh encounter between present-day and premodern concerns, ecology and theology, philosophy and mysticism, the material and the spiritual, in word and sound.

American Anthropological Association Conference 2021

 

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the AAA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of anthropology publishing at SUP.

 

Greetings from our New Anthropology Editor

New Books and New SUP Authors

2021 Anthropology Catalog

This Year’s Award Winners

AAA Resources

 

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Greetings from Our New Anthropology Editor

In early September, Stanford University Press welcomed a new editor of Anthropology, Dylan Kyung-lim White. Dylan comes to Stanford from UNC Press, where he acquired books in anthropology, geography, sociology, and race and ethnic studies. In his new position at Stanford, he is particularly interested in projects that are connected to environmental anthropology, political anthropology, and science, technology, and medical anthropology, and that are engaged in debates around racial capitalism, colonialism and Indigenous resistance, migration and borders, social and labor movements, prisons and policing, gender, sexuality, and environmental justice. He is keen to support work that can reach across disciplines, and that aims to impact not just the scholarly community but also a wider public. Below is a short note from him on the occasion of the conference: 

 

Dear Reader,

 

As I write this note I am rounding out my early days as anthropology editor at Stanford University Press. Already in this short time I have been so impressed by the intelligence, dedication, and good humor of my new colleagues in the face of the ongoing pandemic, and have now seen up close what I had glimpsed from afar: a dynamic, forward-thinking anthropology program. In surveying Stanford’s most recent group of publications, I am struck by the ground being covered – from cleared-eyed appraisals of our global environmental crisis, to critical accounts of political struggle and resistance to oppression around the world, to cats on the internet – and feel grateful for the opportunity to build on the important work already underway. I’m looking forward to what’s ahead, and to meet future partners in this endeavor. 

 

Thanks, and take good care,

Dylan

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference 2021

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

From the Blog 

Recent Award Winners

ASAP Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off  and free North American shipping on these and other recent SUP titles with discount code S21XASAP-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

American Studies Association Conference 2021

 

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

From the Blog 

Recent Award Winners

ASA Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off  and free North American shipping on these and other recent SUP American Studies titles with discount code S21XASTA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

Reproductive Rights recommended Reading

 

In light of the Justice Department’s announcement that they will be seeking an injunction against Texas’ new abortion restrictions, we have assembled a recommended reading list centered around reproductive rights. We have endeavored to include books from not just a political vantage point, but also from historical and international perspectives.

 

The New States of Abortion Politics »

JOSHUA C. WILSON

 

The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision seemed a means to reinvigorate the old street politics of abortion. The Court's ruling also highlights the success of a decades' long effort by anti-abortion activists to transform the very politics of abortion. The New States of Abortion Politics, written by leading scholar Joshua C. Wilson, tells the story of this movement, from streets to legislative halls to courtrooms.

With the end of clinic-front activism, lawyers and politicians took on the fight. Anti-abortion activists moved away from a doomed frontal assault on Roe v. Wade and adopted an incremental strategy—putting anti-abortion causes on the offensive in friendly state forums and placing reproductive rights advocates on the defense in the courts. The Supreme Court ruling on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt in 2016 makes the stakes for abortion politics higher than ever. This book elucidates how—and why.

 

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan »

AIKO TAKEUCHI-DEMIRCI

Winner of the 2020 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) - Northeast Asia Council.

 

A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and overpopulation, global competitiveness, and eugenics. By the time of the Cold War, a transnational coalition for women's sexual liberation had been handed over to imperial machinations, enabling state-sponsored population control projects that effectively disempowered women and deprived them of reproductive freedom.

In this book, Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci follows the relationship between two iconic birth control activists, Margaret Sanger in the United States and Ishimoto Shizue in Japan, as well as other intellectuals and policymakers in both countries who supported their campaigns, to make sense of the complex transnational exchanges occurring around contraception. The birth control movement facilitated U.S. expansionism, exceptionalism, and anti-communist policy and was welcomed in Japan as a hallmark of modernity. By telling the story of reproductive politics in a transnational context, Takeuchi-Demirci draws connections between birth control activism and the history of eugenics, racism, and imperialism.

American Sociological Association Conference 2021

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

Recent Award Winners

ASA Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Sociology titles with discount code S21XASA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

For the best shipping rates on orders outside of North America use the discount code S21XAOM-FM at our international distributor, CAP.

 

 

Marcela Maxfield, SUP's Sociology Acquisitions Editor, says hello to ASA and explains her areas of interest.

 

Academy of Management Conference 2021

 

 

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the AOM exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Business at SUP.

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

Recent Award Winners 

AOM Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Business titles with discount code S21XAOM-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

For the best shipping rates on orders outside of North America use the discount code S21XAOM-FM at our international distributor, CAP.

 

 

SUP is proud to present Ecosystem Edge » authors Arnoud De Meyer and Peter J. Williamson in conversation with SUP Senior Editor Steve Catalano.

 

SUP Bids Fond Farewell to our Director of Finance and Operations

We celebrate the retirement of our own Jean Kim, who has worked for the Press for over 40 years.

 

SUP is both proud and saddened to congratulate Jean Kim, our Director of Finance and Operations, on her retirement. Jean started working for the Press in 1980 and has become a vital part of our work. She has kindly imparted some words of wisdom on her experience at SUP.

 

What is your fondest memory from working at SUP?

There are so many of fond memories. But if I had to pick one for me personally:

While wearing the additional hat of Building Manager many years ago, in the days when we didn't have a flood of emails to write and look at, I started sending a weekly email called “TGIF” to staff, adding some of my dry sense of humor, to communicate the building news more effectively and make it less boring. TGIF became the best tool I had for communicating with staff for many years. It was also a great way of practicing my English, as an ESL student. I felt very good when fellow employees had nice things to say about my weekly TGIF emails, and told me they appreciated them.

The best—or funniest!—moment, maybe, was when the Press was on campus and construction crews were demolishing our warehouse.  As a (mostly humorous) solution to staff having to endure that for long, awful days, with our building literally shaking, I offered to provide them all with ear plugs. 

Pride 2021 Recommended Reading

To celebrate Pride 2021 we have composed a recommended reading list focused around activism, politics, religion and art.

A rainbow arch made of balloons in new York city. Free for commercial use. Via Pixabay.

Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context  »

GOLAN Y. MOSKOWITZ

"Easily the best study of Sendak to appear; deeply researched and utterly engaging. Moskowitz brings rich new context to Sendak's life, showing how the artist's historically sidelined queer and Jewish identity inspired his work. Even the notoriously cranky Sendak would have liked it."

—Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida

 

Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice.

 

Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective—the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference 2021

 

 

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the SHAFR exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of History and Foreign Relations at SUP.

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

Recent Award Winners 

SHAFR Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History and Foreign Relations titles with discount code S21CSHAF-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

 

 

 

Margo Irvin, SUP's History Acquisitions Editor, says hello to SHAFR and explains her areas of interest.

Cultural Studies Association Conference 2021

 

 

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the CStA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Cultural Studies at SUP.

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

Recent Award Winners 

CStA Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Cultural Studies titles with discount code S21XCSTA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

 

SUP and The Seminary Co-op Bookstores hosted Susan Crane for a virtual event on her Nothing Happened: A History » on January 19, 2021. Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois) joined Susan in this conversation on the nature of Nothing.

Organization of American Historians Conference 2021

 

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the OAH exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of History at SUP.

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

Catalog

Recent Award Winners 

OAH Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History titles with discount code S21XOAH-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

 

Margo Irvin, SUP's History Acquisitions Editor, says hello and explains her areas of interest.

 

Association of American Geographers Conference 2021

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the AAG exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Geography at SUP.

 

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

New in Digital Projects

Recent Award Winners

AAG Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Geography titles with discount code S21XAAG-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

 

 

Feral Atlas offers an original and playful approach to studying the Anthropocene. Focused on the world's feral reactions to human intervention, the editors explore the structures and qualities that lie at the heart of the feral and make the phenomenon possible. This publication features original contributions by high-profile artists, humanists and scientists such as Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Fenn, Simon Lewis, Mark Maslin, and many others. Edited By Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Saxena Keleman, and Feifei Zhou

International Studies Association Conference 2021

 

To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the ISA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of International Studies at SUP.

 

 

New Books and New SUP Authors

2021 International Studies Catalog

Recent Award Winners

ISA Resources

 

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New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP International Studies titles with discount code S21XISA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».

 

 

 

Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall discussing their book Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism » with Matthew Feeney. Hosted by the Cato Institute.