Please join us in celebrating the release of our sixth digital publication, Elaine A. Sullivan’s Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara. The long-lived burial site of Saqqara, Egypt, has been studied for more than a century. But the site we visit today is a palimpsest, the result of thousands
We are pleased to announce the publication of our fourth interactive scholarly work, Thomas S. Mullaney’s The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Edited by a Stanford faculty member and built by Stanford Libraries, this publication is truly homegrown. In it, three historians of China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke, Christian Henriot, and Thomas S. Mullaney, chart
We’re excited to announce the latest publication from our Mellon-supported digital publishing initiative. Alisa Lebow’s Filming Revolution investigates documentary and independent filmmaking in Egypt since the Egyptian Revolution began in 2011. It brings together the collective wisdom and creative strategies of thirty filmmakers, artists, activists, and archivists who share their thoughts and experiences of filmmaking in those
Are you a publisher wondering whether to take on innovative digital projects? Has an author approached you with an exciting idea but you aren’t sure how to begin evaluating this opportunity? Here are a few notes that might help you on your way. As part of our participation on the 3D Digital Edition Publishing Cooperative
We are pleased to announce the publication of our newest digital project: When Melodies Gather by Samuel Liebhaber. With over sixty audio and video recordings of poems in the Southern Arabian language of Mahri, this project lets you dive in and experience the practice of crafting poetry in an unwritten language. The more theoretically minded should head over
Original post by Arianna Ciula at King’s Digital Lab Blog. SUP and KDL are pleased to announce our selection of the most compelling ideas that were submitted in this round of the call for expressions of interest. This initiative emerged from a conversation at the Digital Humanities conference 2017, held in Montreal, between Friederike Sundaram
Enchanting the Desert crosses a lot of boundaries, including those of discipline. Identified by the author as cultural geography, the project has now been reviewed by a professor of English (Audrey Goodman, Georgia State) in a venue for art and art history, CAA.Reviews. We encourage you to head on over to CAA.Reviews for the full
Our Spring 2018 catalogs recently arrived, and we are excited to announce three interactive scholarly works to be published in the upcoming season. They are, in order of publication: Samuel Liebhaber, When Melodies Gather The Mahra people of the southern Arabian Peninsula have no written language but instead possess a rich oral tradition. Samuel Liebhaber
Originally posted at the King’s Digital Lab blog by Arianna Ciula: Stanford University Press (SUP) and King’s Digital Lab (KDL, King’s College London) invite expressions of interest to propose ideas for a digital academic publication blending cutting-edge technology with very high quality scholarship. KDL and SUP wish to collaborate with interested researchers in developing a scholarly product that
As Acquisitions Editor, my role is to find valuable projects, review them, and guide authors in developing them to their final form. My core concerns in this process are scholarly merit and intellectual integrity. While we require projects to make a contribution to scholarship along the same lines as monographs, that is, advancing complex arguments,
