Publisher Profile / University of Minnesota Press
Facts
Mission and genres: “The University of Minnesota Press is recognized internationally for its innovative, boundary-breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences and as publisher of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the most widely used objective tests of personality in the world. Minnesota also maintains as part of its mission a strong commitment to publishing books on the people, history, and natural environment of Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.
Year Founded: 1925
Titles Printed Yearly: 110
Reviews
Wake Up, Island by Mary Casanova, Illustrated by Nick Wroblewski
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Siisip Geniusz, Edited by Wendy Makoons Geniusz
The Ravens by Vidar Sundstøl, Translated by Tiina Nunnally
The Three-Minute Outdoorsman: Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp by Robert M. Zink
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter by Rachael Hanel
Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime by Elizabeth A. Kessler
Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki, Translated by Thomas Lamarre and Kazuko Y. Behrens
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works by Atina Diffley
How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost
The Face of America: Plays for Young People Edited by Elissa Adams and Peter Brosius
The Magic Bullet by Larry Millett
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music by Nona Willis Aronowitz
Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education by Andrea Dyrness
The Right to Be Out: Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools by Stuart Biegel
The Swedish Table by Helene Henderson
Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat by Michael Awkward
Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul by Aaron Isaacs and John W. Diers
A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent is Vital to Islam and America by Anouar Majid
Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga by Frenchy Lunning
Insect Poetics by Eric C. Brown
Erotic Anger: A User’s Manual by Gerard Pommier, Translated by Catherine Liu
The Witness of Combines by Kent Meyers
##Awards
The War Came Home With Him: A Daughter’s Memoir by Catherine Madison. 2015 HONORABLE Mention for War & Military
Foreword Mentions
The Marvel and Mastery of Translation
Ten Shades of Destiny: Succor and Strife in This American Life
Provocative Narratives about Black Experiences: On Race(ism)
Press Releases
Of walls and robots: The future of immigration
Ann Treacy: Fiction is woven of fact, history, and hard work.
Hannah Hohman
