Inside ‘Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection’
Take a look inside the new edition.
New books out this month
Take a look at all of the new titles released this month.
New in paperback from Syracuse University Press
As 2024 comes to a close, don’t miss a chance to take a look at some of the Syracuse University Press titles available for the first time in paperback this year. These books are also available in our ongoing Holiday Sale! “Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narratives from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others” by Anthony Wonderley explores the uniquely Haudenosaunee and Oneida components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed at the beginning of the 20th Century. “In Search of Walid Masoud: A Novel” by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra is the story…
News and Reviews from SUP
Recent coverage and events Talar Chahinian wins the Society for Armenian Studies Outstanding Book Award Anjili Babar wins the 2024 Macavity Award for Nonfiction/Critical from Mystery Readers International for The Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction Book launch for War and Imagination: Perspectives from the Hudson Review at the New York Society Library on October 15. Talar Chahinian’s Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile named an honorable mention for ASEEES’ 2024 University of Southern California Book Prize. Maha AbdelMegeed on publishing her book, Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda on the TRAFO…
Open Access Week: Building Equity in Scholarly Publishing
“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for Open Access Week this year—and the SU Libraries and SU Press are both helping to build a scholarly publishing community centered on equitable access for all. In the spring of 2023, the Libraries subscribed to the Path to Open collection at the same time that SU Press signed up to make some of its e-books available through this pilot program. This innovative initiative comes from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in partnership with the University of Michigan Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and JSTOR. It aims to create a…
Presidential books from Syracuse University Press
The Press takes a look at our books on the Commander in Chief.
Q&A with Uncommon Allies author Alan Shore
Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945 illuminates the origins of this interfaith collaboration, demonstrating that Judeo-Christian values were present before the Holocaust. Using an impressive array of English and Yiddish newspapers to inform his work, Alan Shore paints a vivid picture of vibrant rallies at Madison Square Garden, with both Christians and Jews eager to speak out against the terror of Nazism. We sat down with Shore for a quick Q&A about the book and his research process. What pushed you to write this book now? What do you hope to accomplish with your audience? One…
Series Spotlight – Critical Arab American Studies
Once per month on What’SUP, we want to highlight one of our series, looking ahead to what sorts of projects we’re excited to publish in the future from the people who work closely on the series, and focusing on some recently published titles. For this inaugural Series Spotlight, we’re looking at our Critical Arab American Studies series. Syracuse University Press’ Critical Arab American Studies series examines the experiences, nuances, challenges, and joys of Arab American life. Born out of the our earlier Arab American Writing series, which included fiction, poems, and memoirs, this new list features a range of innovative…
SU Press editors participating in CNY Humanities Corridor’s “Getting Your Book Published: A Roundtable”
Syracuse University Press will be participating in the CNY Humanities Corridor’s “Getting Your Book Published: A Roundtable,” from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Friday, February 7.
The 1977 Buffalo Blizzard and ‘Declaring Disaster’
January 28, 1977, began as just another Friday morning for people across western New York.