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abbysmcallister.bsky.social

@abbysmcallister.bsky.social

Editorial Director @UPittPress | (she/her) | HPSTM, history of architecture & the built environment

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University of Pittsburgh Press@upittpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The first scholar with a deep knowledge of Carpatho-Rusyn culture to write about Warhol, Rusinko’s engaging book will no doubt prove to be the definitive study of Julia’s profound influence on her son." Terrific review of Andy Warhol's Mother @hyperallergic.com! hyperallergic.com/985368/julia...

Julia Warhola Was an Artist in Her Own Right

The calligrapher, illustrator, and mother to Andy Warhol lived with her son in New York City for decades, supporting and even collaborating with him on artistic projects.

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University of Pittsburgh Press@upittpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban and architectural history of Gaza’s cities and the varied perspectives and identities of the people who shaped them. A Territory in Conflict is out next month upittpress.org/books/978082...

University of Pittsburgh Press@upittpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

A groundbreaking study of urban and architectural history in Gaza, A Territory in Conflict is the first book to present the cultural architecture and urban history of the Gaza Strip in the wake of Israel’s occupation of the territory in 1967. On sale: 3/18/25: upittpress.org/books/978082...

abbysmcallister.bsky.social@abbysmcallister.bsky.social · last yr.

Hearty congrats to @kendalljoy.bsky.social, acquiring editor Josh Shanholtzer, and our CLC series editors Aja Y. Martinez and Stacey Waite. 🙌 upittpress.org/series/compo...

Composition, Literacy, and Culture - University of Pittsburgh Press

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University of Pittsburgh Press@upittpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats @kendalljoy.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism!

abbysmcallister.bsky.social@abbysmcallister.bsky.social · last yr.

"A blueprint for what it means to treat other people right." — @randywilburn.bsky.social on Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer, by Liann Tsoukas and Rob Ruck. @upittpress.bsky.social

Mal Goode Reporting - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822967453|The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer|Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead ...

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abbysmcallister.bsky.social@abbysmcallister.bsky.social · last yr.

"Today, @aupresses.bsky.social joins in repudiating the recent presidential Executive Order that grossly mischaracterizes current primary and secondary history education across the US as 'radical indoctrination.'"👇

AUPresses Responds to the 1776 Report - Association of University Presses

We note that this report is plagued by procedural deficiencies that would render it unpublishable as a serious work of scholarship.

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Marci Baranski@ecomarci.bsky.social · 2y ago

I heard we're talking about the politicization of science today? It just happens to be my book's 2nd birthday! 🎂🎂 The Globalization of Wheat is about how a controversial scientific concept, "wide adaptation," became the basis of today's international agricultural development. #histsci #envhist

The cover image from the book The Globalization of Wheat by Marci R. Baranski. There is a stylized graphic of a hand holding a globe and wheat stalk.
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today on our site we are highlighting @mattholmes.bsky.social's new book, The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2024) niche-canada.org/2024/11/26/n... #envhist #histsci #book

New Book - The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics

For environmental historians, The Graft Hybrid offers new insights into what it meant to think about the “environment” in the twentieth century and how we now perceive and define biotechnology.

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University of Pittsburgh Press@upittpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of World Observation: Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta by Matthew Mullane, an incisive study of a towering figure in modern Japanese architecture. World Observation will be published on April 22, 2025.

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