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The University of Chicago Press was founded in 1891 and conceived by President William Rainey Harper as an organic part of the University, extending the influence of Chicago scholars around the globe. Within ten years, the Press introduced fourteen scholarly journals, all of which remain in wide circulation. Today, the Journals Division publishes more than 80 journals... [more]

Call for papers: Special issue on the evolution of functional traits in plants (International Journal of Plant Sciences)

University of Chicago Press journals earn top Impact Factor rankings

Getty Research Journal article wins the 2018 Article Prize from the Association of Print Scholars: A Princely Education through Print: Stefano della Bella’s 1644 Jeux de Cartes Etched for Louis XIV,” by Paris Amanda Spies-Gans

Call for papers: Trust in Doubt: Consuming in a Post-Truth World (Journal of the Association for Consumer Research)

Metropolitan Museum Journal article wins 2018 AAMC Award for Excellence: "'Working My Thought More Perfectly': Horace Pippin’s The Lady of the Lake," by Anne Monahan, Isabelle Duvernois, and Silvia A. Centeno

Call for papers: Comparative Politics (Polity)

2018 Roger V. Gould Prize winner announced: Daniel Navon and Gil Eyal for their article "Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population" (American Journal of Sociology)

Exploring the Relationship Between Fever and Cancer Incidence: Repeated exposure to fever helps foster inhospitable environments that destroy malignant cells (The Quarterly Review of Biology)

Politicization and Prioritization in the Judiciary: How and why American courts become politicized (The Journal of Law and Economics)

Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen V. Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists awarded to Dominic P. Parker and Bryan Vadheim for their article, “Resource Cursed or Policy Cursed? US Regulation of Conflict Minerals and Violence in the Congo"

Do Tiger Shark Moms-to-Be Give in to Their Cravings During Pregnancy? Energy metabolism, behavior, and reproduction in sharks (Physiological & Biochemical Zoology)

2017 Outstanding Article Award winner and Honorable Mention selected: “Fisheries Production: Management Institutions, Spatial Choice, and the Quest for Policy Invariance,” by Matthew N. Reimer, Joshua K. Abbott, and James E. Wilen (Marine Resource Economics)

Symposium: The Death and Life of Martin Luther King Jr., 1968–2018: Read it now in the Summer 2018 issue of the Journal of African American History, plus two additional articles, an essay review, and a book review.

NEW JOURNALS

BASOR coverBulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
A leader among peer-reviewed academic journals of the ancient Near East.

DIA coverBulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts
Devoted to new research on works in the museum's permanent collection.

JCS coverJournal of Cuneiform Studies
Technical and general articles on the history and languages of the ancient Mesopotamian and Anatolian literate cultures.

NEA coverNear Eastern Archaeology
Brings to life the ancient world from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean.

PG coverPortable Gray
A forum for artists and scholars to consider how experimental collaboration can enrich their practices and foster new discoveries.

SHAD coverThe Social History of Alcohol
and Drugs

Original academic research, reflection essays, and reviews in the field of alcohol and drug history.

TWC coverThe Wordsworth Circle
An international journal devoted to British, American, and Asian Romanticism from about 1760 to 1850.