Incorporated in 1947 and formally organized in 1964 by Ohio University president Vernon Alden, Ohio University Press is the oldest scholarly publisher in Ohio. Since its founding, the Press (including its trade imprint, Swallow Press) has developed into a leading publisher of books about Africa, Appalachia, Southeast Asia, and the Midwest, as well as on many other topics. From academic monographs to regional guides to internationally acclaimed literary works, its books have established the Press as an essential member of its many communities: scholarly, literary, and geographic.
The Press publishes between forty-five and fifty books a year. Distributed worldwide, its books are regularly covered by prominent national and international news and review media; in countless academic journals; and in a wide variety of literary and cultural outlets.
Key subject areas
African Studies
Indian Ocean Studies
Global Health
Victorian Studies
Environment & Agriculture
History
Literature, Fiction & Poetry
Phenomenology
Ohio Catalogues
Ohio Featured Titles
Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960
13 February 2024
Research as More Than Extraction
Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies
24 October 2023
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana
11 July 2023
Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
8 November 2022
25 October 2022
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali
17 December 2021
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
30 July 2021
The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga
23 February 2021
Ohio Featured Series
Ohio Short Histories of Africa
Series editors: Daniel Magaziner, Michelle R. Moyd & Moses Ochonu
Ohio Short Histories of Africa is a series of informative and concise guides, lively biographies, and succinct introductions to important topics in African history.
African Activists of the Twentieth Century
Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa
African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2
Cabral, Machel, Mugabe, Sirleaf
Kwame Nkrumah
Visions of Liberation
Chris Hani
Mozambique’s Samora Machel
A Life Cut Short
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
Josie Mpama/Palmer
Get Up and Get Moving
Wangari Maathai
Amílcar Cabral
A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary
A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Boko Haram
Albert Luthuli
Robert Mugabe
Series in Continental Thought
Series editor: Dr. Hanne Jacobs
The Series in Continental Thought publishes scholarship that critically engages and extends twentieth- and twenty-first-century European thought, especially phenomenology. The series provides a forum for innovative interpretations of influential figures within this tradition, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, and Derrida. In addition, the series publishes contemporary work in phenomenology that enters into dialogue with other philosophical traditions and fields, including cognitive science, moral psychology, feminist theory, critical race theory, and environmental studies.
The Phenomenology of Pain
Becoming a Place of Unrest
Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis
Motivation and the Primacy of Perception
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knowledge
The Birth of Sense
Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
The Golden Age of Phenomenology at the New School for Social Research, 1954–1973
The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World
Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patočka
Merleau-Ponty
Space, Place, Architecture
Time, Memory, Institution
Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self
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