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Remembering Laurence Hauptman

This week, the press remembers Laurence M. Hauptman, one of our authors and series editors whose advocacy and scholarship has left a lasting impact on the state of New York. He passed on June 23, 2026 and was 81 years old. Laurence Hauptman was born in 1945 and grew up in Brooklyn where he lived and worked before is appointment o the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in 1971. There, he started the Native American Studies Program, the second of its kind in New York state at the time. His work as an author began around this time. Hauptman would…

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…

Series Spotlight: TV and Pop Culture

Celebrating over twenty-five years of groundbreaking scholarship, our Television and Pop Culture series offers a wide variety of volumes about American television and popular culture, including updated classics like the widely course-adopted Watching TV. Topics examine individual shows, specific genres, creators and producers, and the history and evolution of the medium. Since its founding, the series has expanded to include more aspects of American popular culture and mass entertainment such as vaudeville, comics, movies, and radio broadcasting. From the Acquisitions Editor, Heather Stauffer As the television medium has transformed in the era of streaming and internet platforms, so too has…

Staff picks for summer

Beyond the work we publish, the staff at Syracuse University Press is always reading. Here are a sampling of the titles staff are reading this summer. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine Showing my true history nerd colors this summer: I’m reading Lincoln Paine’s The Sea and Civilization, a global history of ships and seafaring. There’s nothing like looking back across thousands of years of human innovation, migration, and violence to put the present in context. Next up: Christopher Beckwith’s The Scythian Empire, from Princeton University Press’s inimitable ancient history list. When I…