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Join us for a Read New York Virtual Book Talk

On July 28, the press will be holding a virtual book talk as part of the Read New York Challenge, highlighting local authors exploring the concept of writing New York waterways.

May’s ‘Read New York Challenge’: “Peconic Bay”

The 2026 Read New York Challenge is preparing for summer reads and May’s entry offers a warm and welcoming portrait of one Staten Island region. Only recently recognized for its economic and environmental significance, the Peconic Bay has a rich history, examined in Marilyn E. Weigold’s 2019 book, Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island’s North and South Forks. Peconic Bay examines the past 400 years of the region’s history, tracing the growth of the fishing industry, the rise of tourism, and the impact of a military presence in the wake of September 11. Weigold introduces readers to the…

Meet the Press’ summer intern

“Everyone working at a press wants to see a successful publication and is interested in working with authors to make that happen.”

Meet the Press’ Summer Intern

Arianna Taylor was awarded the Humanities Center’s Next-Generation Doctoral Internship for SU Press during summer 2025. Originally from the Bronx, they’re going into their third year as an English PhD student at Syracuse University. They also received their bachelor’s from the University of Rochester in Language, Media, and Communications (English). Currently, they’re studying African-American popular culture and how Black kinship moves between Black cultural texts to link/create Black Diasporic kinship. They’re specifically interested Black popular culture, performance studies, critical race studies, and ideas on transnational blackness. What drew you to the press? I’ve always been interested in publishing. When I…

Meet the Press’s Spring Interns

This spring semester, Syracuse University Press was fortunate to have two interns, Tatum Shea in our acquisitions department and Katie Ryder in the marketing department.