Founded in 1969, Temple University Press chose as its inspiration Russell Conwell’s vision of the university as a place of educational opportunity for the urban working class.
The Press is perhaps best known as a publisher of books in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as books about Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley region. Temple was an early publisher of books in urban studies, housing and labor studies, organizational reform, social service reform, public religion, health care, and cultural studies. It became one of the first university presses to publish in what later became the fields of women’s studies, ethnic studies—including Asian American and Latino studies, as well as African American Studies.
Today, it continues in those fields and in newer ones such as disability studies, animal rights, criminology, gender and sexual identity, and sport and society. Temple’s regional list encompasses scholarly books, coffee table books, and books about art, culture, birding, fishing, hiking, sports teams, and the urban and suburban environments.
Key subject areas
Politics
Sociology
Film & Media
Urban Studies
Animals & Society
African American Studies
Ethnic & Critical Race Theory
Work & Labour Studies
Temple Catalogues
Temple Featured Titles
The Other Public Lands
Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States' Natural Resource Lands
14 February 2025
That Futebol Feeling
Sport and Play in Brazil's Heartland
7 February 2025
Digital Girlhoods
31 January 2025
Righteous Sisterhood
The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club
24 January 2025
The Improviser's Classroom
Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking
17 January 2025
Who Is Antiracist?
Beliefs, Motivations, and Politics
20 December 2024
The Agency of Access
Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique
13 December 2024
Contours of Israeli Politics
Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy
29 November 2024
Building Ghosts
Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
17 November 2024
Working Watersheds
Water and Energy in the Lackawanna Valley
14 November 2024
Worlds at the End
Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination
1 November 2024
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing
5 July 2024
On Gangs
21 January 2022
Gangs on Trial
Challenging Stereotypes and Demonization in the Courts
12 January 2022
Making a Scene
Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden
27 December 2021
Fitting the Facts of Crime
An Invitation to Biopsychosocial Criminology
27 December 2021
Islam, Justice, and Democracy
10 December 2021
Vehicles of Decolonization
Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank
22 November 2021
The Many Futures of Work
Rethinking Expectations and Breaking Molds
5 November 2021
Invisible People
Stories of Lives at the Margins
2 November 2021
"Beyond the Law"
The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
15 October 2021
Who Really Makes Environmental Policy?
Creating and Implementing Environmental Rules and Regulations
24 September 2021
Filling the Ark
Animal Welfare in Disasters
30 June 2021
The Evolution of a Cricket Fan
My Shapeshifting Journey
21 June 2021
Temple Featured Series
Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy
Series editors: David Stradling, Larry Bennett & Davarian Baldwin
The Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy Series was founded by the late Zane L. Miller to publish books that examine past and contemporary cities. While preserving the series’ foundational focus on the policy, planning, and environmental issues so central to metropolitan life, we also join scholarly efforts to push the boundaries of urban studies. We are committed to publishing work at the shifting intersections of cultural production, community formation, and political economy that shape cities at all scales, from the neighborhood to the transnational.
From Improvement to City Planning
Spatial Management in Cincinnati from the Early Republic through the Civil War Decade
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification
People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020
Modern Mobility Aloft
Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America
Architectures of Revolt
The Cinematic City circa 1968
Democratizing Urban Development
Community Organizations for Housing across the United States and Brazil
Constructing the Patriarchal City
Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s
Sinking Chicago
Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment
Communities and Crime
An Enduring American Challenge
Believing in Cleveland
Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”
The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics
Series editor: Paul A. Djupe
The Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series will collect work that explores in theoretically and empirically rigorous ways variations in and determinants of religious presence in the politics of democratic nations—from those with a long history of institutionalized democracy to those struggling to establish free, contested elections and systems of rights and liberties. Books in the series will demonstrate application of one or more of a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore the robust and highly variable presence of religion in democracies.
Islam, Justice, and Democracy
How Political Parties Mobilize Religion
Lessons from Mexico and Turkey
Rock of Ages
Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion among Young Evangelicals
Understanding Muslim Political Life in America
Contested Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
One Faith, Two Authorities
Tension between Female Religious and Male Clergy in the American Catholic Church
The Evangelical Crackup?
The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition
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