NDSU Press is Hiring! Come work for us and NDSU’s Department of History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Modern Languages.

Announcing a full-time job opening with NDSU Press + the Department of History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Modern Languages!
25 percent of the position is for rendering aide to NDSU Press…and we could use your help!
This position provides shared services between the History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Modern Languages department and NDSU Press. The primary duties and responsibilities include budget management, payroll processes; NDSU Press inventory and invoice management and administrative support. Other key duties include managing department projects, scheduling department events, assisting students and academic activities.
Responsibilities:
NDSU Press; 25%:
+Calendar management, scheduling meetings, inventory and invoice management using Dashbook (will train)
+Processing reports such as weekly book orders, weekly credit card report, and monthly purchasing card report
History, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Modern Languages department; 75%:
+Answer phones, schedule meeting rooms, and photocopying.
+Schedule departments’ events.
+Maintain inventory, office supplies, and office equipment.
+Serve as phone, key, and records management coordinator for the departments.
+Maintain departments’ websites (Typo 3, will train)
+Assist with scholarship processing.
+Coordinate travel for faculty, guests and class field trips.
+Supervise student employees.
+Monitor expenditures and track spending in all appropriated, local, grant and development foundation funds.
+Approve funding on all payables to ensure appropriate spending and accuracy.
+Process all position changes, rate changes, funding changes, payroll forms and corrections, and budget changes as needed.
Other duties as assigned
Work Schedule:
Monday-Friday; 40 hours per week.

NDSU Press Receives Grant

The NDSU Press has received a $15,000 grant from the Literary Arts Emergency Fund, which is administered by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine and Presses and the National Book Foundation. In total, the fund has granted $4.3 million to 313 nonprofit literary arts organizations and publishers across the U.S. that have experienced continued financial losses due to COVID-19.

“Of the 313 presses receiving support, we are one of only seven university presses, including the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison, Letras Latinas at University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies and the University of Arizona Poetry Center,” said Suzzanne Kelley, NDSU Press editor in chief. “With paper shortages, higher costs and delays in printing and shipping, and multiple disruptions in the supply chain, we at NDSU Press are tasked daily to overcome industry challenges and expenses. This important one-time grant provides sure footing for our future.”

Check out the complete announcement at NDSU News: NDSU Press receives grant | NDSU News | NDSU

 

The Folk School on Willow Creek

Publisher note from Suzzanne Kelley

Welcome to the Folk School on Willow Creek, featuring University Distinguished Professor Tom Isern, singing and telling stories from the Salon on Willow Creek. Every Friday evening, 8:00 p.m. Central Time, Isern belts out ballads and tells the backstories of the lyrics, the authors, and the people of the plains who sang the songs. This Friday, July 25, he’ll feature “The Letter Edged in Black.” Do you know the significance of the edging? Tune in . . . you’ll find out. The Folk School lasts about 30 minutes, but you’ll wish it lasted longer. This week’s program is the 14th in the series.

Here is a link to Prairie Public’s Main Street, where host Doug Hamilton interviewed Isern just this week about the Folk School.

And here is a link to the Folk School page on Facebook.

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Literary Aspirations on the Northern Plains

Publisher note from Suzzanne Kelley

In late September, NDSU Press will be visible in multiple sessions and responsibilities at the 55th Northern Great Plains History Conference for 2020. Too bad for all of us, our sessions will be virtual, but I still look forward to witnessing the splendid work from scholars across the United States and Canada. While the conference is by necessity going virtual, its home base will still be Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the sacred and ancestral lands of the Ojibwe and Dakota Nations.

Two of our NDSU Press authors and I will present papers in the session called Literary Aspirations on the Northern Plains, wherein…

Prairie scholars describe and reflect upon their literary aspirations and their place in the history of the northern plains. The first author examines the seventy-year history of publishing by the Institute for Regional Studies; the emergence of its publishing imprint, North Dakota State University Press; and its vision as the voice of the prairies and the plains. The second author reflects on his ambitions and audacity in roasting that great chestnut of regional history, the Nonpartisan League. The third author considers how best to invigorate the familiar genre of collected essays in the realm of regional literary nonfiction.

Here are the session participants:

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Moderator: Jeanne K. Ode, Acting Press Director and Managing Editor of South Dakota History, South Dakota State Historical Society Press

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Suzzanne Kelley

Paper 1: “Serving, not only the scholarly world, but the world in which the scholar lives”: North Dakota State University Press Celebrates 70 Years. Suzzanne Kelley, Publisher and Assistant Professor of Practice

 

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Terry L. Shoptaugh

Paper 2: Roasting a Chestnut: Historians Return to the Nonpartisan League. Terry L. Shoptaugh, Archivist and Professor of History (Ret’d.), Minnesota State University–Moorhead

 

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Thomas D. Isern

Paper 3: Doing History in Grassy Places. Thomas D. Isern, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of History, North Dakota State University

 

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David Grettler

 

 

Commentator: David Grettler, Professor of History, Northern Sate University, South Dakota

 

 

 

 

We invite YOU to attend the session and/or the whole conference, September 16-19, 2020. Follow along for updates here: 2020 Northern Great Plains History Conference.

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Taking NDSU Press Home for a While

Dear NDSU Press friend,

Like others who are able, our graduate assistant, interns, and I will be conducting NDSU Press business from our home locations.

Book orders will be shipped out once per week on Mondays. Orders can be placed anytime through our website “Shop Now” link at http://www.ndsupress.org.

I’m SO sorry to back up our send-outs like this. We dislike having to spend our 70th anniversary confined, but it is what we shall do.

 

Everyone take care, and–here’s what THIS doctor orders–use this time to read and write.

—Suzzanne Kelley, Publisher, NDSU Press

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5th Annual NDSU Press Party & 70th Anniversary

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Hear ye! Hear ye!

NDSU Press is pleased to announce our 5th Annual NDSU Press Party is about to commence! Free and open to the public, hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, music and readings, prose and poetry, cake—who could ask for more? Well, what the heck, since it’s our 70th anniversary, let’s throw in a 25 percent discount on book purchases and some door prizes, too!

When: Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Harry D. McGovern Alumni Center, 1241 University Dr N, Fargo, ND

This year’s featured titles and authors:

  • Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors, by Denise K. Lajimodiere
  • Sons of the Wild Jackass: The Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, by Terry L. Shoptaugh
  • Girl on a Float, by Brian Bedard
  • Harvest Widows, by Nick Bertelson
  • The Mammals of North Dakota, Second Edition, by Robert Seabloom
  • Pacing Dakota, Audio Version, by Thomas Isern and produced by Amanda Watts

NDSU Press aims to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary scholarship throughout the Red River Valley, state of North Dakota and the plains of North America. The press publishes peer-reviewed scholarship shaped by national or international events and comparative studies. NDSU Press operates under the umbrella of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.

This project is supported in part by generous donors to the NDSU Press Fund; the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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5th Annual NDSU Press Party & 70th Birthday

70 Logo for Website

Hear ye! Hear ye!

NDSU Press is pleased to announce our 5th Annual NDSU Press Party is about to commence! Free and open to the public, hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, music and readings, prose and poetry, cake—who could ask for more? Well, what the heck, since it’s our 70th birthday, let’s throw in a 25 percent discount on book purchases and some door prizes, too!

When: Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Harry D. McGovern Alumni Center, 1241 University Dr N, Fargo, ND

This year’s featured titles and authors:

  • Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors, by Denise K. Lajimodiere
  • Sons of the Wild Jackass: The Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, by Terry L. Shoptaugh
  • Girl on a Float, by Brian Bedard
  • Harvest Widows, by Nick Bertelson
  • The Mammals of North Dakota, Second Edition, by Robert Seabloom
  • Pacing Dakota, Audio Version, by Thomas Isern and produced by Amanda Watts

NDSU Press aims to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary scholarship throughout the Red River Valley, state of North Dakota and the plains of North America. The press publishes peer-reviewed scholarship shaped by national or international events and comparative studies. NDSU Press operates under the umbrella of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.

This project is supported in part by generous donors to the NDSU Press Fund; the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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4th Annual NDSU Press Party

From NDSU Publicist Zachary Vietz

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It’s that time of the year again where NDSU Press gets to show off its great books!

Join us on Thursday, March 7, from 7 to 9 P.M. at the Harry D. McGovern Alumni Center and hear from our wonderful authors and their new books.

The works being featured are Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley, Hunter’s Log: Volumes II & III by Timothy Murphy, Pacing Dakota by Thomas D. Isern, Operation Snowbound: Life behind the Blizzards of 1949 by David W. Mills, Still by Rebecca E. Bender and Kenneth M. Bender, and Destiny Manifested by Bonnie Larson Staiger.

It is sure to be a wonderful, literature filled night with music from Cat Sank Trio, refreshments, a cash bar, and best of all: free and open to the public!

Check-in at our Facebook event here.

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Reading at the Rourke, Hunter’s Log: Volumes II & III

Join us at the Rourke Art GallHunter's Log II & III coverery on February 2, 2019, for a reading from one of the last works of the late prairie poet Timothy Murphy The event is also a showcase of Murphy’s collection of Charles Beck’s woodcuts. Murphy and Beck were long-time friends and collaborators, with several of Beck’s woodcut images appearing on Murphy’s book covers. These literary and visual artists found inspiration in the same landscape. We will be launching Hunter’s Log: Volumes II & III, with poems read by Murphy’s brother, Jim Murphy, and friends.

This publication celebration is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

The event will be from 3-5:30 P.M. at The Rourke Art Gallery & Museum located at 521 Main Ave, Moorhead, Minnesota 56560

RSVP to our Facebook event here and keep up to date on the event!

Upcoming Book Tour for Pacing Dakota!

We are happy to announce an upcoming book tour with Dr. Isern’s Pacing Dakota. Below you will find the NDSU Press write up with event details:

NDSU University Distinguished Professor Tom Isern, author of the acclaimed new book, Pacing Dakota, is coming to your locality! His Holiday Book Tour, December 6 through 9, includes appearances in Watford City, Minot, Williston, Bowman, and Bismarck. Each stop offers the opportunity to purchase books for holiday gifts or just good winter reading, with profits going to local businesses and organizations.

Watford City | Thur., Dec. 6 | 3 to 7:00 p.m.
Pioneer Museum of McKenzie County, in the Long X Visitor Center, 100 Second Av SW, Watford City
Booktalk (at 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.), reading, performance, and autograph party
Contact: Jan Dodge, jandodge74@gmail.com

Minot | Fri., Dec. 7 | 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Main Street Books, 8 Main St. S., Minot
Conversation with readers, signing for purchasers
Contact: Val Stadick, mainstreetbooks@srt.com

Williston | Fri., Dec. 7 | 5 to 8:00 p.m.
Books on Broadway, 12 W Broadway, Williston
Holiday open house, conversations with readers, signing for purchasers
Contact: Chuck Wilder, bksbdwy@nemontel.net

Bowman | Sat., Dec. 8 | 3 to 5:00 p.m.
Pioneer Trails Regional Museum, 12 1st Av N, Bowman
Booktalk, song, reading, signing for purchasers
Contact: Jean Nudell, ptrm@ptrm.org

Bismarck | Sun., Dec. 9 | 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Ferguson Books Bismarck, 413 E Broadway, Bismarck
Booktalk, song, reading, signing for purchasers
Contact: Dane Ferguson, dane@fergusonbooks.com

Visit the NDSU Press Facebook | View the video trailer for Pacing Dakota

Pacing Dakota, published by North Dakota State University Press, is a collection of stories from across North Dakota–stories that are packed with human interest, but also have much to say about community and life on the northern plains in our times. People of the region know Prof. Isern’s voice from Plains Folk, his weekly feature on Prairie Public Radio. He brings the same evocative narrative voice to the printed page in Pacing Dakota. The hardback work was published in July and is now in its second printing.

The author is keen to meet friends and grads of NDSU–and to sign books for them to read or to gift to friends, family, and fellow fans.

With Prof. Isern on the Holiday Book Tour will be Dr. Suzzanne Kelley, Editor-in-Chief, North Dakota State University Press. Dr. Kelley is happy to visit with prospective authors and others interested in the work of the press.