Dawn Durante

I'm humbled and excited to share the news that I have the opportunity to lead the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department in the role of Editorial Director.

"The University of the West Indies Press: Guardian and Global Ambassador of Caribbean Scholarship" by Christine Randle, director, The University of the West Indies Press. #FeedingTheElephant #scholarlycommunication #ReadUP @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

"Slowing down doesn’t mean resisting innovation. It means giving ourselves enough space to evaluate tools properly, measure outcomes, and monitor unintended consequences."--Sarah Hands Plus an apt Jurassic Park quote later in the piece!

This #BannedBooksWeek, #FeedingTheElephant acknowledges resources to #LetBooksBe as well as efforts to preserve and protect the larger data and information landscape, including ways to volunteer. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

I'm so sad to miss @asalh-bhm.bsky.social this year, but I see Policing Passengers! 🎉 Plus many books cited in it!

The new book edited by ASA members Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social and Golshan Golriz brings together work by leading scholars of social movements, religion, and gender and sexuality to better understand the activism of the queer faithful. @uncpress.bsky.social

Are you writing a book about food justice and race? Learn more about our Black Food Justice series with series editor Ashanté Reese and @lucaschurch.bsky.social next week at this online lunch and learn👇 utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It was a great first day at #ASALH2026! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth today. Looking forward to catching up with more people tomorrow!

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Such great advice! It is also useful for editors trying to learn more about your work. If I see an interesting panel in a conference program, for example, I’ll look someone up. What I find online can confirm if that scholar’s work lines up with my acquisitions work and inform whether I reach out.

Earlier this week, an author told me how helpful they were finding all the #PeerReviewWeek info that was circulating! Here’s what #FeedingtheElephant added to the Peer Review Week mix.

And hitting the @uncpress.bsky.social book exhibit at the @asalh-bhm.bsky.social conference next week!

Terrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT: 

"To understand Dolly, you have to read her as a writer. Writing her own story was the most radical, precise way to define herself in a world that kept trying to fit her into a box." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

It’s Library Card Sign-Up Month. Do it for Dolly, forever our literacy queen.

I love seeing this when it happens to authors I’m working with, especially between proposal and manuscript.

Here's a really thoughtful and generous review of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Many thanks to the great Jonathan Bell for taking the time to read and sit with my book. 🗃️

“Along with the Morrison and le Carré, Obama has chosen The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.”

It's the last day of #ASA2026! If you haven't made it to our booth yet, be sure to stop by today before 12pm or visit our virtual exhibit 👇 https://uncpress.org/amsocioassn-virtual-exhibit/

Pub day!!!! ✨💫📚🌟

Student Success | How HBCUs Are Redefining Student Success From helping stopped-out students return to creating faster routes to graduate school, HBCUs are removing barriers at every stage of college. https://bit.ly/4hlFDfa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

A moving remembrance of Johanna Fernández from @democracynow.org reflecting on her life, scholarship, activism, and extraordinary work preserving the history and legacy of the Young Lords 💚 www.democracynow.org/2026/8/4/joh...

Congratulations to ArCasia D. James-Gallaway. Advance copies of her book, ORDINARY SITES: Student Resistance and the 1970s Texas School Desegregation Struggle, just arrived @uncpress.bsky.social.

Man this looks good, hadn't seen this one yet. Coming in September from @uncpress.bsky.social.

Congratulations to Ashley Howard for being named a 2026 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader! If you haven't read Ashley's book, Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement (@uncpress.bsky.social), this is your sign to pick up her award-winning book.

"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

Registration is now open for my "Bookworm" webinar with @clementslibrary.bsky.social on September 18, 10-11:30 AM. I can't wait to discuss "Canal Dreamers" with the good folks at the University of Michigan! Registration is free: events.umich.edu/event/149188 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

Congratulations to Lauren Duval winner of The Mary Kelley Prize in Gender & Women’s History for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Craig Thompson Friend winner of The James C. Bradford Best Biography Prize for Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Lauren Duval the second winner (not finalist!) for The SHEAR Book Prize for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

What are some examples of digital projects? https://bit.ly/3JrWl8g University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

Although we wish we were in Chile for #NAISA2026 we still have a virtual exhibit, a conference discount, and a message from editor, Andreina Fernandez! uncpressblog.com/2026/07/22/2...

There is one grant on this list of 81 projects that specifically focuses on the history of women and girls and that is just my tiny sigh for the day.

Haitian scholar-diplomat Weibert Arthus wrote a piece in @lenouvelliste.bsky.social about our @oah.org 2026 conference panel—including @dawnd.bsky.social—on Rayford Logan’s *The Diplomatic History of the United States with Haiti* from @uncpress.bsky.social. 🇺🇸🇭🇹📚 lenouvelliste.com/en/article/2...

If you're like me and weren't able to attend #AUPresses26, then @michellechn.bsky.social's reflection on of the conference will make you feel like you were there! Check out her thoughts in "AUPresses 2026: Swimming Upstream Together" on @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social's #FeedingTheElephant