University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press advances the research, teaching, and public service missions of a great public university by publishing excellent works by leading scholars, writers, and thinkers, and by providing publishing services to support sustained scholarly research. To be recognized as the best public university press in the country while maintaining its role as a progressive force in the state and region. "Publishing periodicals devoted to the advancement of knowledge, issued at the University of North Carolina by or under the direction of the faculty. Publishing, as may be agreed upon between the University Board and its authorities, catalogues, bulletins, and other documents pertaining to the University or any of its departments. Promoting generally, by the publication of valuable books, the advancement of the arts and sciences, and the development of literature... The stimulation of intellectual life in the University and in the entire American South is, in itself, sufficient proof of the feasibility of this enterprise." About the Press The University of North Carolina Press is a non-profit publishing house that publishes academic and general books and journals. We also provide services to support publishing needs within the statewide university system, as well as other university-affiliated publishing organizations. The house has gained a distinguished reputation by publishing distinguished works by the country’s leading scholars, writers, and thinkers, and presenting these works in an effective manner to a wide audience. Founded in 1922, the University of North Carolina Press was the first university press in the South, and one of the first in the United States. Our regional publishing programme, aimed at a general readership, which presents interesting and authoritative works covering all aspects of the region's history and culture, its natural and architectural environment, its music, its cuisine, its literature, its geography, its flora and its fauna, has gained wide popularity in other parts of the country. Over the years, the publishing house's books have won hundreds of prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and awards from numerous national learned societies. Today, UNC Press is recognized globally as a mark of publishing excellence, both in terms of content and publishing style. Thanks to our distinguished authors who rely on the publishing house to connect readers to important ideas, the university's name is on the publishing house's books and journals across the country and the world, in both print and digital versions.
About the Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press advances the research, teaching, and public service missions of a great public university by publishing excellent works by leading scholars, writers, and thinkers, and by providing publishing services to support sustained scholarly research. To be recognized as the best public university press in the country while maintaining its role as a progressive force in the state and region. "Publishing periodicals devoted to the advancement of knowledge, issued at the University of North Carolina by or under the direction of the faculty. Publishing, as may be agreed upon between the University Board and its authorities, catalogues, bulletins, and other documents pertaining to the University or any of its departments. Promoting generally, by the publication of valuable books, the advancement of the arts and sciences, and the development of literature... The stimulation of intellectual life in the University and in the entire American South is, in itself, sufficient proof of the feasibility of this enterprise." About the Press The University of North Carolina Press is a non-profit publishing house that publishes academic and general books and journals. We also provide services to support publishing needs within the statewide university system, as well as other university-affiliated publishing organizations. The house has gained a distinguished reputation by publishing distinguished works by the country’s leading scholars, writers, and thinkers, and presenting these works in an effective manner to a wide audience. Founded in 1922, the University of North Carolina Press was the first university press in the South, and one of the first in the United States. Our regional publishing programme, aimed at a general readership, which presents interesting and authoritative works covering all aspects of the region's history and culture, its natural and architectural environment, its music, its cuisine, its literature, its geography, its flora and its fauna, has gained wide popularity in other parts of the country. Over the years, the publishing house's books have won hundreds of prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and awards from numerous national learned societies. Today, UNC Press is recognized globally as a mark of publishing excellence, both in terms of content and publishing style. Thanks to our distinguished authors who rely on the publishing house to connect readers to important ideas, the university's name is on the publishing house's books and journals across the country and the world, in both print and digital versions.
