Category: Press Releases

Catholic Press Association Book Awards go to Seven Notre Dame Press Titles

The 2019 Catholic Press Association Book Awards were announced during the Catholic Media Conference, June 18-21, 2019, in St. Petersburg, Florida. This year’s winners include seven titles published by the University of Notre Dame Press. We are proud to represent these important works and distinguished authors whose books have been recognized in diverse categories such as theology, history, memoir, and […]

“The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860” named 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner 

“The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860” named 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to announce that Caoimhín De Barra’s The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860: Celtic Nationalism in Ireland and Wales has been named the 2018 Bronze winner for History by the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Caoimhín De Barra is an […]

Notre Dame Press presents its Fall 2019 Catalog

Notre Dame Press presents its Fall 2019 Catalog The University of Notre Dame Press is excited to present its Fall 2019 Catalog. As a premier American university press, we publish outstanding original print and digital works by leading scholars and intellectuals. With this charge, we are a critical extension of our university’s identity and mission. This […]

“Abandoned Tracks” wins INDIES 2018 Silver Book of the Year for Multicultural Studies

“Abandoned Tracks” wins INDIES 2018 Silver Book of the Year for Multicultural Studies The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that Abandoned Tracks: The Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania by W. Thomas Mainwaring received the INDIES 2018 Silver Book of the Year for Multicultural Studies. Mainwaring is professor and department chair of history at Washington & Jefferson College. Abandoned […]

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalists Announced

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that six of our titles have been selected as finalists for Foreword Magazine’s INDIES Book of the Year Award as the best books from university presses and independent publishers in several categories. These finalists were selected from more than 2,000 entries submitted last year, and […]

Curtis A. Gruenler wins Anne Middleton Book Prize

Curtis A. Gruenler, professor of English at Hope College, received the Anne Middleton Book Prize for his volume Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology (Notre Dame Press, 2017). The award was announced during the International Piers Plowman Society Conference in Miami, Florida. The prize is awarded to the best book within a two year […]

Welcome Michelle Sybert to the University of Notre Dame Press

The University of Notre Dame Press is delighted to announce that Michelle Sybert will begin on April 22, 2019, as the new Sales and Development Program Manager. “We couldn’t possibly be more excited about welcoming Michelle to the UNDP team. Her experience, vision, and savvy will elevate the Press to the next level of publishing excellence and financial […]

Notre Dame Press Intern moving on to NYU Summer Publishing Institute

The University of Notre Dame Press is excited to announce that intern Jessica Crandall (ND ’19), from Chatham, New Jersey, will attend the NYU Summer publishing Institute after graduation in May. The NYU SPI is a six week intensive program, where students are immersed in the world of book and magazine/digital publishing, attending workshops, strategy sessions, and […]

New biography highlights David Gaus ND’84 who transformed Latin American healthcare

Tony Hiss’s new book, Long Road from Quito: Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America, tells the fascinating story of David Gaus, Notre Dame Class of ’84, who has been working for decades to improve health care accessibility in impoverished communities. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health and Development (AHD), an organization dedicated to […]

Brooklyn poet publishes Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize volume 

Brooklyn poet Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes has published The Inheritance of Haunting, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. The poems in Rhodes’s collection contend with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival. The driving forces behind Rhodes’s work include a decolonizing ethos; a queer sensibility that extends […]