Duke University Press

  • Work! A Queer History of Modeling by Elspeth H. Brown

    "Whether it’s the showgirls of the 1920s, fashion photographer George Platt Lynes spearheading 'queer glamour' in the 1930s, or the groundbreaking Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, Brown’s book will reshape our understanding of the modeling industry." — Evette Dionne, Bitch Magazine

    Read more

  • Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

    The journal focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health—past, present, and future.

    Start reading
    Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law cover

  • Keep up to date on new scholarship in our journals

    Issue alerts are a great way to stay current on all the cutting-edge scholarship from your favorite Duke University Press journals.

    Sign up now
  • New
  • Best Sellers
  • Featured Journals
  • Mathematics

New

The Romare Bearden Reader - New

The Romare Bearden Reader

Robert G. O'Meally, editor

"Robert G. O'Meally has curated an astonishing array of commentary on the work of one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists, the inimitable Romare Bearden."— Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A Quarter-Century of Common Knowledge - New

A Quarter-Century of Common Knowledge

Jeffrey M. Perl, editor

This anniversary issue celebrates the past 25 years of Common Knowledge, with 11 “conversations” that cover ambivalence, commensurability, intellectual philanthropy, punitive scholarship, and more.
Racism Postrace - New

Racism Postrace

Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray, editors

“In this well-written, wide-ranging collection, imaginative and innovative researchers from across the disciplines conduct a post-mortem of the illusion of postracialism."—George Lipsitz
Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me - New

Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me

Grant Farred

"Masterfully illuminating the intersections between football, historical and social context, and fan and player affect, Grant Farred has written a powerful and far-reaching book."—Yago Colás
The Politics of Boycotts - New

The Politics of Boycotts

E. Natalie Rothman and Andrew Zimmerman, issue editors

Contributors explore the global, entangled history of boycotts, from the original Captain Boycott to the struggles for justice in Israel/Palestine.
The African Roots of Marijuana - New

The African Roots of Marijuana

Chris S. Duvall

"As the only work that situates Africa and its peoples at the center of a human and environmental narrative that unfolds across the Atlantic world, The African Roots of Marijuana offers a history of cannabis unlike any other."—Judith A. Carney
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles - New

The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles

Charles Piot, with Kodjo Nicolas Batema

"A powerful book, illuminating a set of issues that could hardly be more important or timely."—James Ferguson
Trans Studies en las Américas - New

Trans Studies en las Américas

Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, Denilson Lopes, Cole Rizki, and Juana María Rodríguez, issue editors

Contributors offer a hemispheric perspective on trans and travesti issues to the Anglophone academy, expand transgender studies to engage geopolitical connections, and bring interdisciplinary approaches to topics ranging from policy to cultural production.

Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

"A brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." —Kirkus
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
Stolen Life - Best Sellers

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both." —Vulture
Stuart Hall - Best Sellers

Stuart Hall

Grant Farred, issue editor

This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly brings together a range of scholars who pay homage to the legacy of one of the most important founders of the field of cultural studies.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure - Best Sellers

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare

"A dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination."—Aurora Levins Morales
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman
The Child Now - Best Sellers

The Child Now

Julian Gill-Peterson, Rebekah Sheldon, and Kathryn Bond Stockton, issue editors

Following the twists and turns of children now, contributors to this GLQ special issue confront how race, gender, and sexuality are made to live and grow in children’s bodies.

Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Eric M. Patashnik, editor

A leading journal in its field, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health—past, present, and future.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society - Featured Journals

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Wen-Hua Kuo, editor

Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society.
Hispanic American Historical Review - Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review

Martha Few, Zachary Morgan, Matthew Restall, and Amara Solari, editors

Founded over 100 years ago, Hispanic American Historical Review pioneered the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States and remains the most widely respected journal in the field.
Archives of Asian Art - Featured Journals

Archives of Asian Art

Patricia Berger, editor

Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Jonathan Wahl, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Michael Detlefsen and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.
Information For

Latest NewsAll News

2020 Pricing Now Available

Latest Blog PostAll Posts

Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer on Writing a Duograph
Top