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Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People
In Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (John Hopkins University Press; May 31, 2022), was written to help caregivers and to make a new language that allows our culture to value seeing and...
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Patriotism, Schools, and the Public
As a young public school student growing up in rural Montana, I don’t recall wondering why there was an American flag hanging in every classroom. Similarly, perfunctory recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance seemed a natural part of the day, like morning...
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A Ukraine Reading List
The history of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is a long and complex one. Hopkins Press has published a variety of books and scholarly research on the topic, including the work below. We encourage a look at these book titles and papers for a deeper understanding...
Kiev, Ukraine
A conversation with Rob Shumaker and Carl Jones
Joining the JHU Press Podcast today are Dr. Rob Shumaker and Professor Carl Jones. Dr. Rob Shumaker is an evolutionary biologist who currently serves at the President and CEO of the Indianapolis Zoo. Professor Carl Jones is a global hero whose innovative...
Generous, Generative Peer Review
My opening proposition: Peer review at its finest is an act of extraordinary generosity and is capable of engendering generosity in its wake. Before I go further, though, let me acknowledge that I have, like all academic authors, been on the receiving end of...
On the Occasion of Peer Review Week
I have to admit that I’m new to the celebration of Peer Review Week, now in its fifth year, but not new to peer review or the concept of Quality that’s the focus of this year’s observance. I have always held great respect for the process of peer review and...
Research and the Rites of Passage: Peer Review as part of the Process
If you wish to send a chill through an audience of graduate students and young scholars, just mention the custom among academic tribes known as “Publish or Perish.” Horror stories of punitive departmental and campus review committees often extend to the infamy...
The Importance of Book Reviews
The age-old academic adage of "publish or perish" still exists. Publishing a book can play a critical role in the future of any academic. However, one piece of that important puzzle plays an important role in the journals published by the JHU Press. Book...
Peer Review Week: Singing the Unsung
“Do not publish this book!” This is the shortest peer review I’ve ever received, and by far, the most direct. In five short words, it spoke volumes. I can’t tell you who wrote it—that would violate a trust—but I can tell you the book never saw the light of day...
A Palace of One’s Own: Celebrating Professor Richard Macksey
Photo credit: homewoodphoto.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins and the greater academic community lost a brilliant mind earlier this month when Richard Macksey died. Professor Macksey was an author and journal editor, long-time friend of the Press, and permanent fixture of...