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MAA 2026 Publication Prizes We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes: The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the W…

Congratulations to Brigitte Buettner, whose book THE MINERAL AND THE VISUAL has been named the winner of the 2026 Karen Gould Prize in Art History! https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-publication-prizes/

MAA 2026 Publication Prizes

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:

The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-pub...

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

October is LGBTQ History Month, and we're celebrating with a sale! Take 40% off select titles when you use discount code LQHM25 at checkout. Sale ends 10/31: bit.ly/3KT9jll

Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity By Kristopher W. Kersey If we want to decolonize the history of art, argues Kristopher Kersey, we must rethink our approach to the historical record. This means dispensing with Eurocentric binaries—divisions between Western ...

The runner-up to the 2025 MSA First Book Prize is Kristopher W. Kersey for Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity.

Congrats to Kristopher and @psupress.bsky.social!

When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry's decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular.

PIER GROUPS by Jonathan Weinberg got a nod from @hyperallergic.com! Read the full article here:

Penn State University Press welcomes new sales manager | Penn State University Paul Harrington, former sales and marketing director at Well-Trained Mind Press, has been named sales manager at Penn State University Press, effective June 23.

Penn State University Press is pleased to welcome Paul Harrington as our Sales Manager! buff.ly/V8AdUTH

We are with @psupress.bsky.social at #Leeds International #Medieval Congress. Pop by our stand in the Book Fair to find out more about new and bestselling books in #Medieval Studies, or to chat to a commissioning editor about publishing!

@psupress.bsky.social *is* at the #IMC2025 Bookfair. Come by and say hello! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

‘A timely, magisterial and perceptive study of the most contested aspect of an enigmatic medieval philosopher.’ My review of David J. Collins’s ‘Disenchanting Albert the Great’ is published in Irish Theological Quarterly @psupress.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The summer issue of our newsletter, PSU Press News, is here! Find awards and reviews, upcoming events, journals news, and more: buff.ly/sf48Qf6

Paul would be a fabulous colleague to have

NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Paul Kaplan | The New York Public Library Kaplan's research focus is on Venetian painting and European and American images of people of Black African descent.

in which the NYPL had a nice chat with @psupress.bsky.social author Paul Kaplan
www.nypl.org/blog/2025/05...

Our Fall/Winter 2025 catalog has arrived! Browse the catalog to see what we’re publishing next season: buff.ly/UfJ9bF3

If you're in University Park this Saturday, join Acquisitions Editor Archna Patel at the 2025 CAS Summer Symposium! Find more information in the below flyer and register here: buff.ly/Xw8fYnd

new Selva out: _The Ends of Criticism_, guest-edited by Chloë Julius and C. Oliver O'Donnell, with a stunning line-up of authors and topics in US art + art history in the 60s.

(appended is my review of an Israhel van Meckenem show curated by James Wehn at the Chazen....)

selvajournal.org/issue/six

「ヤマザキマリ✕歴史ミステリー｣ご好評につき全国放送決定！ | NHK長崎 【NHK】2/14に放送し全国から大反響があった「ヤマザキマリ✕歴史ミステリー 世界を見た若者たちｰ天正遣欧使節をたどるヨーロッパの旅ｰ」。ご好評につき全国放送決定！

This Saturday! Catch Mayu Fujikawa, author of the upcoming book ENVISIONING DIPLOMACY, will be featured on NHK (BS) from 14:57 to 15:56 Japan time. More info here:

BOOK SALE ALERT

breaking good news:
Farshid Emani's ISFAHAN, published by @psupress.bsky.social has won the IJIA 2025 Book Award

Now published! AFRICAN VENICE is a guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the City of the Lagoons. Take 30% off w/ discount code NR25: buff.ly/7qkVQNV

LOVE AND DEGRADATION | Kirkus Reviews Simmons presents a series of critical essays analyzing love and all its forms through a carefully curated selection of art, literature, and pop culture.

"A thought-provoking analysis that uses art to challenge readers to dig deeper."

Read the full review of William J. Simmons's LOVE AND DEGRADATION from Kirkus Reviews:

because commitment to generalized cruelty is the entire point?

Burlington Contemporary - Articles This is an edited excerpt from ‘Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art’ by William J. Simmons, published in December 2024 by Penn State University Press. i. In a 1994 essay,…

"We speak so often of art being some kind of transcendent, collective experience or a way of communing across lines of difference, when, in truth, art can be an equally solitary venture as it is a relational one."

Read more from LOVE AND DEGRADATION in this excerpt:

Brimming with Pathos | Los Angeles Review of Books Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”

"I want to believe that we can all have multiple loves, multiple obsessions, and multiple ways of writing."

Read @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social's full interview with William J. Simmons, author of LOVE AND DEGRADATION, here:

We're at #RenSA25 this week! Stop by our booth to browse and purchase books, or shop through our virtual exhibit: buff.ly/jfFBBo4

::considers printing up a rage-channeling suggestion leaflet on basement mimeograph machine::

keyword: leaning.
they've also all taken down their earnest yard signs. ask me how i know.

We join with @historians.org, @oah.org & others to denounce US goverment's efforts to censor historical content in public resources.

These mandates are deeply antithetical to our community's work of stewarding & preserving the integrity of the scholarly record.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4hxQHlu

Congratulations to Mónica Domínguez Torres, whose book PEARLS FOR THE CROWN received honorable mention for the 2025 Eleanor Tufts Award!

SIGA briefs | SIGA David Pullins and Vanessa Kimberly Valdés win 2025 Jonathan Brown Award

Congratulations to Alessandra Russo, whose book A NEW ANTIQUITY is the winner of the 2025 Eleanor Tufts Award!