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Guest post by Sara Palmer, PhD June is National Aphasia Awareness Month—the perfect time to celebrate people living with aphasia and the aphasia programs that help them, from traditional speech language therapy (offered by hospitals, outpatient clinics, and home health agencies) to long-term language recovery programs based in the community. Nearly 2 million Americans are…
Guest post by Sara Palmer, PhD June is National Aphasia Awareness Month—the perfect time to celebrate people living with aphasia and the aphasia programs that help them, from traditional speech language therapy (offered by hospitals, outpatient clinics, and home health agencies) to long-term language recovery programs based in the community. Nearly 2 million Americans are…
The long-anticipated fourth edition of the leading mammalogy textbook by George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, and Carey Krajewski is the featured book at this year’s Johns Hopkins University Press book display at the American Society of Mammalogists 2015 Annual Meeting. Mammalogy headlines a list of titles that cover every aspect of…
The long-anticipated fourth edition of the leading mammalogy textbook by George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, and Carey Krajewski is the featured book at this year’s Johns Hopkins University Press book display at the American Society of Mammalogists 2015 Annual Meeting. Mammalogy headlines a list of titles that cover every aspect of…
Guest Post by Kathy Ko Chin and Dr. Winston Tseng In 1985, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler’s landmark report, Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health, shined a light on some of the pervasive and concerning disparities in health and health care experienced by racial and ethnic minorities.…
Guest Post by Kathy Ko Chin and Dr. Winston Tseng In 1985, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler’s landmark report, Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health, shined a light on some of the pervasive and concerning disparities in health and health care experienced by racial and ethnic minorities.…
Guest post by Dane A. Morrison Recently, the online journal Common-place published a roundtable on Kathleen Donegan’s Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America, a book that has garnered a good deal of attention among early Americanists. The collection of brief essays expands upon a session held at the American Studies Association…
By Melanie Schaffner, Project MUSE Staff Johns Hopkins University Press is delighted to announce the award of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly…
By Melanie Schaffner, Project MUSE Staff Johns Hopkins University Press is delighted to announce the award of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly…
By Hilary S. Jacqmin, JHUP Staff How did you become a writer? What drew you to poetry specifically? What were your early poems like? It’s hard to imagine that my early poems weren’t a lot like those of many others. Long on adolescent angst and abstraction. A little lonely and sad with a healthy twist…