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Founded in 1890, the University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest continuously operating university presses in the United States. From its inception, a primary goal of the Press has been to publish academic findings and analyses from scholars the world over. The Journals Division publishes more than 90 scholarly journals that cover a wide range of disciplines, from the humanities and the social sciences to the life and physical sciences.  [more]

Our 2025 Journals catalog is now available

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Jack Bouchard has won the 2024 Leopold-Hidy award for "Fishwork Is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic" in Environmental History

Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn” by Sofía Forchieri is the winner of the 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. (Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society)

From Renaissance Drama, "Feminine Performance in The Taming of the Shrew: Final Speech and Missing Soliloquy" by Laura Kolb has won the 2025 SAA Innovative Article Award

The Quarterly Review of Biology celebrates 100 years of publication

Read a special issue from Polity on the topic of Political Authenticity

The National Tax Journal presents a forum on environmental tax policy in the United States

Call for Papers: The Journal of African American History is seeking papers on “The Roots and Routes of Black Power” and “Black Women’s History in the Twenty-First Century

Call for papers: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks essays on “Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret”

Call for papers: Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology is soliciting manuscripts on the topic of Molecular Evolutionary Physiology for a Focused Collection

The Sixteenth Century Journal seeks a Book Review Editor or editorial team for 2026

The Journal of Politics presents a special collection on Democratic Transitions

Barbara Newman has been appointed Editor of Speculum for a term beginning in July 2025 (Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

Read a collection of free research in policing, civil rights, and racial justice

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  • The Sixteenth Century Journal publishes research and inquiry related to the sixteenth century broadly defined (1450-1650) in all fields and all world regions.

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  • Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, seeks to advance scholarship across the four fields of anthropology and beyond.