Ideas and inspiration from Princeton University Press’s 2023 fellows January 03, 2024 Princeton University Press’ Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to expand access to publishing careers and address a lack of diversity across the industry. In July 2023, Faye Akpalu and Jon Kriney were welcomed to the press as our third-year Publishing Fellows. Read More
Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus on The New Global Universities January 02, 2024 The New Global Universities tells the story of educational leaders who have chosen not to give up on higher education but to reimagine it. Read More
Galen and health: Inspiration, caution, and some useful advice January 02, 2024 What use to today’s physicians is the writing of Galen, an educated but pompous and (we now see, in 2023) misguided healer who lived 1,800 years ago? Read More
Books for finding balance December 26, 2023 Research shows conclusively that overwork can be harmful to employees and humans at large, and yet it can be hard to find public examples of choices that support true balance, or guidance that puts health ahead of hustle. Read More
Our Compelling Interests December 14, 2023 It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Read More
The women who opened the doors to astronomy December 13, 2023 In France, Dorothea Klumpke earned her Docteur-ès-Sciences at the University of Paris in mathematical astronomy in 1893, after completing her thesis, “L’etude des Anneaux de Saturne” (A study of the rings of Saturn), thereby becoming the first woman to achieve the academic distinction of earning an advanced degree for work done in astronomy. Read More
The Dialectic Is in the Sea November 30, 2023 Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora. Read More
Listen in: Free Agents November 27, 2023 Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. Read More
The Career Arts November 27, 2023 Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills. Read More
What it’s like to be a bee November 21, 2023 Alien minds are right here, all around you. Indeed, the perceptual world of bees is so distinct from ours, governed by completely different sense organs, and their lives are ruled by such different priorities, that they might be accurately regarded as aliens from inner space. Read More
Julie A. Phillips on The Lives of Seaweeds November 17, 2023 Our understanding of the evolution of seaweeds and other algae is undergoing a revolution. Over the last five decades, numerous scientific studies have generated a wealth of new data and a new classification scheme that assigns various algal species to four of the six kingdoms of life on Earth—an unprecedented phenomenon in the living world! Read More
PUP Speaks on boosting author voices from page to stage November 15, 2023 In the summer of 2022, I joined Princeton University Press in the second cohort of its annual Publishing Fellowship, a year-long position explicitly intended for individuals with no industry experience. Read More
The long history of the chapter book November 14, 2023 Very few adult readers are likely to remember it, but imagine, if you will, your first experience reading a book divided into chapters. What confronted you was a story that unexpectedly stuttered. Read More
Robert Wuthnow on Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice November 14, 2023 Have progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? Robert Wuthnow shows that, contrary to activists’ accusations of complacency, Black and White faith leaders have fought steadily for racial and social justice since the end of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Read More
Listen in: Deaths of Despair November 12, 2023 Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. Read More