The University of North Carolina Press advances the research, teaching, and public service missions of a great public university by publishing excellent work from leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals and by providing publishing services to support sustainable scholarship.
To be recognized as the nation’s premier public university press while remaining a progressive force in the state and region.
“To publish periodicals devoted to the advancement of learning and produced at the University of North Carolina by or under the direction of the faculty of that University. To publish, so far as may be agreed between the corporation and authorities of the University of North Carolina, catalogs, bulletins, and other documents pertaining to that University or to any department thereof. To promote generally, by publishing deserving books, the advancement of the arts and sciences, and the development of literature. . . . The stimulus to the intellectual life of the university and of the entire South is, in itself, sufficient argument for undertaking the project.”
The University of North Carolina Press is a nonprofit publisher of both scholarly and general-interest books and journals. We also provide services to support the publishing needs within the statewide university system as well as to other campus-based publishing entities. The Press has earned a distinguished reputation by publishing excellent work from the nation’s leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals and by presenting that work effectively to wide-ranging audiences.
Established in 1922, UNC Press was the first university press in the South and one of the first in the nation. Our regional publishing program—aimed at general readers and offering engaging, authoritative work on all aspects of the region’s history and culture, its natural and built environment, its music, food, literature, geography, plant and animal life—has been widely adopted in other parts of the country. Over the years, Press books have won hundreds of prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and those of many national scholarly societies. Today, the imprint of UNC Press is recognized worldwide as a mark of publishing excellence—both for what we publish and for how we publish. Because of our respected authors who rely on the Press to connect readers with important ideas, the name of the University is carried on Press books and journals across the country and around the globe, in both print and digital formats.
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