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Overview
As part of the Mellon Foundation’s support for higher education, the Scholarly Communications program focuses broadly on all stages in the life cycle of scholarly resources. The program complements fellowships and other kinds of support for research and teaching at research universities, liberal arts colleges, independent research centers, libraries, and museums by promoting the cost-effective creation, dissemination, accessibility, and preservation of high-quality scholarly resources in humanistic studies broadly defined.
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The University of Arizona Press and three other university presses have been awarded a collaborative publishing grant of more than one million dollars from the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the publication of first books in the underserved and emerging field of Indigenous Studies.
This grant will assist the University of Arizona Press and its publishing partners in releasing titles that will expand the field to reflect the broader issues facing all Indigenous peoples worldwide. Indigenous Studies encompasses scholarship by and about over 370 million people from more than seventy countries. With generous assistance from the Mellon Foundation, the University of Arizona Press will reinforce the vitality of a growing field that encompasses such critical topics as cultural and political sovereignty, the value of traditional knowledge, and ethnic identity.
These funds will allow for unprecedented collaboration among four university presses in this important field: The University of Arizona Press, The University of North Carolina Press, The University of Minnesota Press, and The Oregon State University Press. The presses will use the grant money in all aspects of the publishing process, from acquisitions to marketing. The publishing partners will use the funds to attract the foremost scholars in the field, assist them with research and travel, and craft manuscripts that will reach the broadest audience. The collaboration will also allow the four presses to significantly expand their marketing efforts to reach academic and indigenous communities worldwide.
The University of Arizona Press has been publishing critical works in Indigenous Studies since 1959. “Our longstanding history of publishing indigenous voices,” says UAP Director Dr. Christine Szuter, “as well as our relationship with such influential organizations as the Native Nations Institute and the Harvard Project on Native American Economic Development put the University of Arizona Press in an ideal position to utilize the Foundation's monetary support to continue to broaden the field.” From its first published title, George Webb's A Pima Remembers , to more recent works in Native American history and Indigenous archaeology, including Jennifer Nez Denetdale's Reclaiming Diné History and T. J. Ferguson and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh's History Is in the Land , the University of Arizona Press has always produced indispensable research in this field. The Press looks forward to continuing this tradition through its work with other committed scholarly presses and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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