The Oxford and Dublin offices of Peter Lang are delighted to announce the 2017 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in the fields of Irish Studies and Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Proposals are invited from early career scholars in each field for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. The winner of each competition will receive a contract to publish the volume with Peter Lang.

Find out more about the competition here.

Congratulations to Ty-Ron Douglas, Erin Cameron & Constance Russell, Patricia H. Hinchey and Jennifer Shiller for winning the Society of Professors of Education book award for their most recent publications with Peter Lang Publishing!

Ty-Ron Douglas is author of Border Crossing Brothas .

Erin Cameron and Constance Russell are the editors of The Fat Pedagogy Reader.Patricia H. Hinchey is author of A Critical Action Research Reader.

Jennifer T. Shiller is author of The New Reality for Suburban Schools.

Click here to read more about the Society of Professors of Education.

Read the new review of Dr. Virginia Stead’s book RIP Jim Crow: Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions! This 2016 Peter Lang publication was included in Teachers College Record.

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Mitchell, author of African American Males in Higher Education Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities. This 2017 Peter Lang publication was included in the The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education’s Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars.

Congratulations to Paul Ian Campbell, for winning the 2017 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. His prize-winning publication Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British African-Caribbean male experience in leisure and sport as well as on the relationship between «race» and local-level football. This volume is in the Sport, History and Culture series, edited by Richard Holt and Matthew Taylor.

Paul Ian Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Sport Culture, Media and Development, Special Needs and Inclusion Studies and Education at the University of Wolverhampton. His work focuses on race, ethnicity and identity from a historical, sociological and cultural studies viewpoint.

Peter Lang has been included in OAPEN’s newly introduced list of book publishers that comply with the open access requirements for books resulting from research funded by OAPEN-partners European Research Council (ERC), Wellcome Trust and Austrian Science Fund (FWF). As official member, Peter Lang can deposit OA publications funded by these partners directly in the OAPEN Library, a platform for full text hosting, deposit, dissemination and preservation of OA books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Congratulations to Professor Peter McLaren, for winning two lifetime achievement awards this year!

Dr. McLaren was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Critical Media Literacy, presented by the Critical Media Literacy Conference at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, GA. In April, Peter McLaren will also be awarded the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division B Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual conference in San Antonio.

Peter McLaren is the author of an impressive body of significant scholarly work, including Pedagogy of Insurrection: From Resurrection to Revolution.

Congratulations to Professor Tom Moylan, one of the editors of the Ralahine Utopian Studies series, who has been selected as the winner of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award!
The Pilgrim Award was created in 1970 to honour lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship. Professor Moylan joins a long and distinguished list of previous winners, including Fredric Jameson and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Listen to Julien Mirvel’s TEDx talk on positive communication. Dr. Mirivel shares a model to “inspire change in personal communication and ignite the co-creation of better social worlds.” His latest book with Peter Lang Publishing The Art of Positive Communication: Theory and Practice delves into this topic and is ideal for courses and research on interpersonal communication.

Congratulations to Dr. Isabel Dwornik, author of Dreams and Deceptions: Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males’ Struggles in Sports and Education. This 2017 Peter Lang publication was included in the The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education’s Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars.