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Bonnie Clark Q&A at the "Amache Rose" premier
May 31st 2022
Join the Denver Botanic Gardens on Sunday, June 26 for a premiere of their new documentary "Amache Rose" followed by a discussion featuring Amache sur
Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent is LeHigh University’s 2022 Williamson Prize Winner!
April 22nd 2022
Congrats to Allison Mickel! Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent won LeHigh University’s 2022 Williamson Prize—a book award for the highest quality, most i
Virtual event with Vivian Faith Prescott!
April 20th 2022
49 Writers will host Vivian Faith Prescott, author of Old Woman with Berries in Her Lap, as part of their Reading and Conversation Series Thursday, Ap
Amos Megged on Historias
April 7th 2022
Amos Megged talks about Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women’s Households in Mexico, 1560–1750 on the SECOLAS podcast Historias.
Three CCCC Outstanding Book Award winners!
February 28th 2022
Congratulations to Louis M. Maraj, Patrick Sullivan and Rosanne Carlo- their USUP books are 2022 CCCC Book Award winners! Black or Right: Anti/Racis
Welcome Robert Ramaswamy, our new acquisitions editor!
February 15th 2022
The University Press of Colorado is very excited to welcome Robert Ramaswamy, the new editor for our University of Wyoming Press imprint. Robert (he/t
The Greater Chaco Landscape wins SAA Book Award!
February 8th 2022
Congratulations to Ruth M. Van Dyke and Carrie C. Heitman... The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship and Advocacy has been selected as the
Forced Out is an APALA lit awards honor title!
January 25th 2022
Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America by Judy Y. Kawamoto, has been selected as the Honor title of the 2021 -2022 Asian/Pacific Am
Update on the press and the Marshall Fires
January 3rd 2022
While the Marshall Fires have devastated our community, all our staff are safe and the press office is still standing. Our hearts go out to those who
Noriko T. Reider wins '21 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize for Mountain Witches
January 3rd 2022
Congratulations to Noriko T. Reider, co-recipient of the 2021 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize from The American Folklore Society for a book that represents
NATURE NOTES: Chihuahuan Desert Neolithic, featuring Thomas R. Rocek and Nancy A. Kenmotsu
November 30th 2021
Thomas R. Rocek and Nancy A. Kenmotsu, editors of Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon, explore what might be called
Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent wins ASOR's G. Ernest Wright Book Award
November 22nd 2021
Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent by Allison Mickel won the G. Ernest Wright Book Award, presented this weekend at the 2021 ASOR annual meeting.
Rachael W. Shah, Rewriting Partnerships win 2021 IARSLCE Publication of the Year!
November 22nd 2021
The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Publication of the Year celebrates the author of a s
Wild Rivers, Wild Rose is 2021 WILLA Literary Award Winner
November 22nd 2021
Sarah Birdsall's Wild Rivers, Wild Rose is the 2021 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction! The WILLA Literary Awards seek to recogni
University Press of Colorado awarded a SHARP Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
October 27th 2021
Louisville, CO--The University Press of Colorado (UPC) has been awarded a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (#SHARP) grant fr
Rachael W. Shah, Rewriting Partnerships win 2021 Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award
October 25th 2021
Congratulations to Rachael W. Shah, winner of the 2021 Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award for her book Rewriting Partnerships: Com
Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers wins the 2021 IWCA Outstanding Book Award!
October 21st 2021
Congratulations to Shannon Madden, Michele Eodice, Kirsten T. Edwards, & Alexandria Lockett, whose book Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduat
Sara Herr and Kelley Hays-Gilpin on The Women in Archaeology Podcast
October 19th 2021
Emily Long and Kirsten Lopez interview Sara Herr and Kelley Hays-Gilpin about Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico on The
Brad Bowers at the Pueblo City-County Library, 10/14
October 8th 2021
Brad Bowers will talk about his new book Bound by Steel and Stone: The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960 a
BAR Book Forum: Louis M. Maraj’s “Black or Right”
October 7th 2021
In the BAR Book Forum, The Black Agenda Report asks acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Louis
University Press of Colorado launches new Global Colonialism series
September 8th 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2021 CONTACT: Allegra Martschenko /allegra(at)upcolorado.com John G. Douglass/ jdouglass(at)sricrm.com University
'Remote Work Works' Rachael Levay on Feeding the Elephant
September 8th 2021
Check out UPC/USUP acquisition editor Rachael Levay's guest post on Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications- Remote Work Works! A
William Duffy and Beyond Conversation on New Books Network
September 6th 2021
William Duffy talks to Sarah Kearns about hist book, Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing, collaboration and the authorial
Luther Wilson Jr. (February 2, 1944–August 5, 2021)
August 19th 2021
The University Press of Colorado mourns the passing of Luther Wilson Jr., who was Director of University Press of Colorado from 1989 to 2000. Prior to
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