Q&A with Donald Kraybill

From the Preface to the forthcoming Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers: Amish. Hate. Crimes. These three words suddenly linked arms in the fall of 2011 when a string of beard-cutting attacks startled the Amish community in eastern Ohio. The fact that the perpetrators were Amish generated an…

Q&A with Donald Kraybill

From the Preface to the forthcoming Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers: Amish. Hate. Crimes. These three words suddenly linked arms in the fall of 2011 when a string of beard-cutting attacks startled the Amish community in eastern Ohio. The fact that the perpetrators were Amish generated an…

University presses, scholarly publishing, the Big Easy (and what’s not so easy)

By Greg Britton Scholarly publishing is a tough business. In addition to all the forces arrayed against it—shrinking bookstore and library markets, new and untested formats, competition for attention online, and books that by their nature have limited audiences—publisher also face stiff competition. We compete with each other for the best books and best authors.…