John Sherer
@jesherer.bsky.social
Director of University of North Carolina Press
this will be important work, for sure. And a dream team of Co-PIs
Thrilled that the California Digital Library is partnering with Lyrasis and the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs on a grant-funded project to advance #DiamondOA in the U.S.!
Lyrasis, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Center for Library Programs and the California Digital Library have been awarded a grant to advance community-governed, open access scholarly publishing in the United States. Read more about the #DiamondOA mapping project here, https://ow.ly/QCKC50Xu6vU.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
this will be important work, for sure. And a dream team of Co-PIs
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We're excited to share that Andrew Kinney will join UNC Press as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor 🎉
"UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇
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"UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇
bit.ly/4i7t3yb
UNC Press Welcomes Andrew Kinney as W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor - UNC Press Blog
The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce that Andrew Kinney will join the Press on December 1, 2025, as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor, leading acquisitions for th...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We're excited to share that Andrew Kinney will join UNC Press as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor 🎉
"UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇
bit.ly/4i7t3yb
"UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇
bit.ly/4i7t3yb
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I am THRILLED to get to work with Andrew again (we are pals from our Harvard UP days) and I am very excited for all that's to come with our new trade imprint uncpressblog.com/2025/11/18/u...
UNC Press Welcomes Andrew Kinney as W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor - UNC Press Blog
The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce that Andrew Kinney will join the Press on December 1, 2025, as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor, leading acquisitions for th...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I am THRILLED to get to work with Andrew again (we are pals from our Harvard UP days) and I am very excited for all that's to come with our new trade imprint uncpressblog.com/2025/11/18/u...
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It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
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Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
you're surely referring to the three @uncpress.bsky.social titles there.
That’s some outstanding company to be in.
I’m teaching a grad seminar on American religion this semester, and am really excited to introduce my students to these phenomenal books.
August 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
you're surely referring to the three @uncpress.bsky.social titles there.
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We're hiring! We're now accepting applications for the W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor, an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields.
Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️
bit.ly/3US7Ihq
Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️
bit.ly/3US7Ihq
W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor – AUPresses Jobs
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August 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We're hiring! We're now accepting applications for the W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor, an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields.
Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️
bit.ly/3US7Ihq
Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️
bit.ly/3US7Ihq
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No offense to all the other great editors, series, & presses out there in the history publishing game, but this is the best team doing #international #history 🗃️ #SHAFR @uncpress.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social
Dinner with my amazing #InterConnections team was the perfect way to close a fun and stimulating @shafrhistorians.bsky.social conference! @uncpress.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
No offense to all the other great editors, series, & presses out there in the history publishing game, but this is the best team doing #international #history 🗃️ #SHAFR @uncpress.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social
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Today I officially join the 40 club--and get to celebrate not just my own promotion, but also the incredibly well-deserved promotion of the best teammate anyone could ask for, @hkyria.bsky.social 🎉 🎉 🎉
May 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today I officially join the 40 club--and get to celebrate not just my own promotion, but also the incredibly well-deserved promotion of the best teammate anyone could ask for, @hkyria.bsky.social 🎉 🎉 🎉
If I'm counting right, of the 6 books that were either winners or finalists for Pulitzers in history and general non-fiction, 4 were published by university presses. A fifth author had an early career UP work. Our work has never been harder. And never more relevant. #ReadUP!
May 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If I'm counting right, of the 6 books that were either winners or finalists for Pulitzers in history and general non-fiction, 4 were published by university presses. A fifth author had an early career UP work. Our work has never been harder. And never more relevant. #ReadUP!
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Huge congratulations to @kathleenduval.bsky.social, former member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her book NATIVE NATIONS 🎉👏
college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...
college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...
UNC-Chapel Hill historian Kathleen DuVal wins Pulitzer Prize - College of Arts and Sciences
Kathleen DuVal, a historian in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, has received a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America."
college.unc.edu
May 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Huge congratulations to @kathleenduval.bsky.social, former member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her book NATIVE NATIONS 🎉👏
college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...
college.unc.edu/2025/05/duva...
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In NYC with @uncpress.bsky.social’s new Fall/Winter 2025 catalog! The cover is from @amyefarrell.bsky.social’s definitive, nuanced, and unflinching book on the complicated history of the Girl Scouts. More media calls today, let’s earn that publicity badge🫡
May 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
In NYC with @uncpress.bsky.social’s new Fall/Winter 2025 catalog! The cover is from @amyefarrell.bsky.social’s definitive, nuanced, and unflinching book on the complicated history of the Girl Scouts. More media calls today, let’s earn that publicity badge🫡
Been trying to get here for, oh, 35 years
April 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Been trying to get here for, oh, 35 years
Dream Team panel #OAH25
All @uncpress.bsky.social authors going to @oah.org are required to attend this panel on the book market 📚📈(4/5 @ 10:30am)
April 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Dream Team panel #OAH25
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The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture @oieahc.bsky.social is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI effective August 10, 2025.
For more than half a century, OI books have been published in partnership with UNC Press.
For more than half a century, OI books have been published in partnership with UNC Press.
The Omohundro Institute Welcomes a New Editor of Books - UNC Press Blog
March 28, 2025—The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI and Associate Professor in the Departmen...
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March 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture @oieahc.bsky.social is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Heerman as Editor of Books at the OI effective August 10, 2025.
For more than half a century, OI books have been published in partnership with UNC Press.
For more than half a century, OI books have been published in partnership with UNC Press.
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Free to read now. www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
No Common Ground (full reading copy) : The University of North Carolina Press
www.book2look.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Free to read now. www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
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Going to #OAH25 next week? I’m looking for 1/2 hour of help setting up the booth since I’m temporarily unable to lift more than 10 lbs. Willing to pay and buy lunch! If you know someone who could help DM me. 🙏
March 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Going to #OAH25 next week? I’m looking for 1/2 hour of help setting up the booth since I’m temporarily unable to lift more than 10 lbs. Willing to pay and buy lunch! If you know someone who could help DM me. 🙏
Achievement unlocked. Thanks friends at @natlhumanities.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Achievement unlocked. Thanks friends at @natlhumanities.bsky.social
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I'm not sure there's ever been a greater author photo.
March 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I'm not sure there's ever been a greater author photo.
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Did you hear? COLD WAR COUNTRY: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism by @jmthompson.bsky.social is a finalist for the @latimes.com History Book Prize 🎉👏🤩
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Did you hear? COLD WAR COUNTRY: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism by @jmthompson.bsky.social is a finalist for the @latimes.com History Book Prize 🎉👏🤩
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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New on the UNC Press Blog, Path to Open: A History.
Learn about the multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to OA books. The story begins in early 2021 when @jesherer.bsky.social UNC Press had a new idea for supporting open access books.
Reposted with permission from ACLS.
Learn about the multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to OA books. The story begins in early 2021 when @jesherer.bsky.social UNC Press had a new idea for supporting open access books.
Reposted with permission from ACLS.
Path to Open: A History - UNC Press Blog
The following originally appeared on the American Council of Learned Societies website, and is reposted here with permission. Path to Open—now beginning its third year—is a multiyear pilot that offers...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
New on the UNC Press Blog, Path to Open: A History.
Learn about the multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to OA books. The story begins in early 2021 when @jesherer.bsky.social UNC Press had a new idea for supporting open access books.
Reposted with permission from ACLS.
Learn about the multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to OA books. The story begins in early 2021 when @jesherer.bsky.social UNC Press had a new idea for supporting open access books.
Reposted with permission from ACLS.
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Check out our top-selling titles in January, from @cornellupress.bsky.social, @ivpress.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @unmpress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social, @ugapress.bsky.social, and Purdue U.P.
#publishing #books #academicwriting #universitypress
#publishing #books #academicwriting #universitypress
February 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Check out our top-selling titles in January, from @cornellupress.bsky.social, @ivpress.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @unmpress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social, @ugapress.bsky.social, and Purdue U.P.
#publishing #books #academicwriting #universitypress
#publishing #books #academicwriting #universitypress
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HUUUUUUUUUUGE @uncpress.bsky.social + OI news: Co-winners of the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie Noire - WOOOOHOOOOO!!! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
HUUUUUUUUUUGE @uncpress.bsky.social + OI news: Co-winners of the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie Noire - WOOOOHOOOOO!!! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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OA increases availability and doesn't discriminate against those without wealth. Everybody benefits.
Thanks to you both. It has given scholars in Latin America access to my book. A high price would have prevented them from acquiring it otherwise.
November 27, 2024 at 9:36 AM
OA increases availability and doesn't discriminate against those without wealth. Everybody benefits.
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Trying to focus but all we can think about is the Spring 2025 galleys the have started to arrive at the office 🤩🙌
November 22, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Trying to focus but all we can think about is the Spring 2025 galleys the have started to arrive at the office 🤩🙌
I have the same feeling. And it's an interesting chance to try and get it right this time. Which is why I'm mostly listening and amplifying.
Seeing my feed in Bluesky gives me memories of the early days of Twitter- when there was hope, engagement and creativity. It’s refreshing and I hope it lasts.
November 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I have the same feeling. And it's an interesting chance to try and get it right this time. Which is why I'm mostly listening and amplifying.