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UTP Journals 12 Days of Reading

20 December 2018 #ThrowBackThursday

Get inside, make a cup of tea, and put on those big fluffy socks—because there is no better time to read than over the holidays. 12 Days of Reading gives you an opportunity to enjoy a curated selection of some of the world’s best research. Best of all, every one of these articles is free-to-read […]

The Journal of Comparative Family Studies joins the University of Toronto Press Journals

14 December 2018 In the News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE University of Toronto Press is pleased to announce that the Journal of Comparative Family Studies has joined UTP’s Journals publishing program. The Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JCFS) was established in 1970 to publish high quality articles based on research in comparative and cross-cultural family studies. The journal promotes a better understanding […]

“The view of the nation, Sire, is that the Constitution be respected”: Support for the French Constitution of 1791 on the Eve of the Republican Revolution

5 December 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, William S. Cormack. This article is part of a larger project on the French Legislative Assembly and the demise of the Constitution of 1791. I have always been interested in the French Revolution’s shift from its original moderate phase to its more radical phase. The period of the Legislative Assembly, from […]

Presumed Heterosexuality in the Archives

26 November 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Erin Gallagher-Cohoon. Between 1946 and 1948, US Public Health Service (USPHS) researchers deliberately exposed Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, asylum patients, and sex workers to syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid. Leading up to this study, it was discovered that penicillin could cure syphilis and gonorrhea, and researchers were eager to learn whether penicillin had […]

Metadata from <front> to </back>: Publishing Metadata with UTP Journals

19 November 2018 Events and Conferences

Last week, we attended Crossref LIVE18 with this year’s theme being How good is your metadata? In preparation for the conference, we put together a poster outlining our metadata workflow and how we plan to continually adapt in the ever-changing world of scholarly metadata. Download the poster here (PDF) or continue reading to learn more about […]

Writing Transnational and Cross-Cultural Lives

12 November 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Patrick Lacroix. Louis-Prosper Bender. Photograph by J.E. Livernois (c. 1880) Everything about Prosper Bender (1844-1917) seemed to suggest that he would be noticed and remembered—everything down to his name. He left a life of comfort to serve as a physician in the U.S. Army in the final year of the Civil […]

Canada’s Constitutional Legacy: ‘Notwithstanding’ its framers?

19 October 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Ben Gilding. It is timely, even more so than I could have possibly intended, that my article emphasising the role of the British Colonial Office in defining the features of Canadian Confederation should be published in the Canadian Historical Review at a time when the constitution—albeit a newer section of it—is […]

At the Avant-Garde: Queer Cities, Cinemas, and Festivals on the Prairies

24 September 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Jonathan Petrychyn. If asked to guess where Canada’s oldest and longest-running queer film festival is located, most people wouldn’t think to start guessing cities on the Canadian Prairies. Most would guess Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver. But in fact, it all started in Winnipeg in 1985 – a full two years before […]

Most US and Canadian veterinary medical schools support ‘tracking’

10 September 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Elizabeth A. Stone. Class of 1950 stained glass window, Ontario Veterinary College ‘‘Abandon the unrealistic concept of the universal veterinarian who can minister to the health needs of all creatures great and small.” Dean William Pritchard, 19891 Each of the three major planning initiatives undertaken by the veterinary profession in the […]

Rethinking Cultural Legacies: Interrupting Social & Sexual Norms through Iraq War Literature

22 June 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Daniel McKay. Take a look at the picture above, a portrayal of South Vietnam in 1968. It’s a still from Stanley Kubrick’s film Full Metal Jacket (1987), in which a Vietnamese prostitute (played by British-Chinese actress Papillon Soo Soo) solicits the U.S. Marines Joker (played by the American actor Matthew Modine) and Rafterman (played by the Canadian actor Kevyn […]

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