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America’s relationship to science is fraught with turmoil. Images of science have long held an ambiguous place in our collective psyche: from Frankenstein’s monster to the moon landing, people have characterized it in both nefarious and glowing terms. Our...

I wrote Inscriptions of Nature because I felt the need to write a political history of deep time, geohistory, and nature. Deep history, that is the history of the evolution of the earth, is often represented as a purely natural phenomenon; of movements of...

Part of the #RaiseUP 2020 University Press Week Blog Tour: Scientific Voices. That women in science must confront disproportionately significant obstacles to succeed is old news – thousands of years old. Gatekeepers (sometimes self-appointed) of scientific...

Writing about another culture is never easy. Writing about sexuality and another culture? That takes a bold pen. Serpent in the Garden was not an easy book to write for that reason. In the end, though, those who have read it agree. It delivers a perspective...

It is hard to distil any work and its implications to an essence. But, often, we have to: time may be pressing; audiences (and funders) need convincing—and sometimes quickly. One common feature of graduate training in UK universities in recent years, for...

The Lives of Amish Women explores how religion, tradition, and social practice come together to shape what it means to be a woman in Amish society. In writing this book, I wanted to understand better how the religiously defined roles of Amish women have...

The journal Literature and Medicine recently welcomed its new editorial board, including MK Czerwiec, who has been named the journal’s first Comics Editor. MK Czerwiec is a nurse, educator, author, comic creator, and one of the co-creators of the field of...

It was fencing that led me to my interest in the history and philosophy of timekeeping. Forget what you think you know about fencing—what you’ve seen in TV shows and movies and such. The reality is both less visually exciting and intellectually more engaging...

Herpetologists have no idea how many lizard species there are. When I started planning Lizards of the World there were about 3000 species known worldwide. When I finished my data collection there were 6528; now there are over 7100. Is the true number 10,000 or...

In our recent strategic planning engagement, JHU Press revised its vision statement to: "We envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person." This vision of scholarship available to all is a goal we strive for all year long, but is...