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Stephen Shapiro

@sshapiro-editor.bsky.social
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History editor, mostly.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m wrote about missing physical books (kinda)
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Physical Books
The first book Belt (then called Rust Belt Chic Press) published was basically self-published; I taught myself how to do it as I went.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Pro tip: if you want a job in publishing, “I love editing” is probably less likely to impress than “I’m killer at finding the right BISAC code”
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for the 2024 Waterloo Centre for German Studies book prize, including Douglas Pretsell (@history-doug.bsky.social) for his marvelous book Urning uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...
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WCGS Book Prize | Waterloo Centre for German Studies | University of Waterloo
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies promotes research into any and all aspects of the German-speaking world.
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Samuel Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It’s officially publication day!!
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A good summary of the latest wave of book promotion scams
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I am thrilled to have received the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social in category "Holocaust" for People without History Are Dust. My book was shortlisted alongside books by colleagues whom I respect and whom I have been reading since I was a young student.
picture of People without History Are Dust with the JBC logo
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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Shop our 125th Anniversary Sale! Save 40% to 75% off a wide range of University of Toronto Press titles, from award-winning scholarship to nonfiction reader favourites. Shop the sale until Feb 15: bit.ly/UTP125SALE #NonfictionBooks #NonfictionReads #BookSale #UniversityPress #AcademicBooks
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Coming to #MLA26 in Toronto this week? Come by the @uoftpress.bsky.social booth to see our newest titles. If you want to meet to discuss a book project in German, Eastern European, or Eurasian literary studies, send me an e-mail.
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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px 1/3 #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.
Lecture title, speaker name, and lecture time/date/location info on a poster, all of which is available on the website for the event. QR code for the online registration for those interested attending via zoom.
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Behnaz Mirzai @behnazmirzai.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My book launch @dependencybonn.de on June 12 follows by a reception!! See you if you are around.
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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It's always so exciting to see how the field of Central Asian studies is shaping. But for this particular book, I've been waiting for Stawkowski's study for a long time since we first almost coincided at ASEES almost a decade ago. I knew of Magdalena's fieldwork utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
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“They Think We Are Stupid”: Reinventing Kazakh Tradition | Atomic Collective
View all available purchase options and get full access to this chapter.
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Excited to be headed to the book expo at Congress 2025 on Monday #congreSSH @federationhss.ca. If you want to talk about titles in history or European and Eurasian studies, send me an email or drop by the @uoftpress.bsky.social booth
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James J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Receiving fresh copies of a book you’ve worked on – it never gets tired. Berlin‘s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social
Cardboard box open to reveal two stacks of the same book. The cover of the book has a backdrop the colour of a green carnation, with two colourised photos showing the same individual in two different exposures, one in masculine-coded clothing from the early 20th century, and one in feminine-coded clothing. On the left the individual is wearing a suit coloured mid-blue with a white starched collar and purple tie and waistcoat and a black hat. On the right the individual is wearing a pink overcoat with wide sleeves over a light-blue blouse and a purple skirt, as well as a purple broad-brimmed hat with a blue ribbon. The text at the top reads MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD/Translated and with an afterword by James J. Conway/BERLIN’S THIRD SEX
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today, ACLS announced the finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards: bit.ly/3Fr4PA3 These $50,000 prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023.
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ACLS Announces Finalists for 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards
Twenty books advance to final round of $50,000 prize for open access titles in the humanities
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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The European Accessibility Act goes into effect in June. Publishers selling digital products. such as e-books, in the EU must ensure their products meet accessibility standards. Mary Lui explains for #FeedingTheElephant what authors and publishers need to know. ➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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The European Accessibility Act: What You Need to Know | H-Net
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James J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It was on this day that Magnus Hirschfeld was born (1868) and died (1935), so it’s a good time to tell you my translation of his utterly groundbreaking 1904 study of sexuality and gender, “Berlin’s Third Sex”, has just been reissued by @uoftpress.bsky.social. This is also good timing because … 🧵
A book cover with a backdrop the colour of a green carnation, with two colourised photos showing an individual in two different exposures, one in masculine-coded clothing from the early 20th century, and one in feminine-coded clothing. On the left the individual is wearing a suit coloured mid-blue with a white starched collar and purple tie and waistcoat and a black hat. On the right the individual is wearing a pink overcoat with wide sleeves over a light-blue blouse and a purple skirt, as well as a purple broad-brimmed hat with a blue ribbon. The text at the top reads MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD/Translated and with an afterword by James J. Conway/BERLIN’S THIRD SEXThe cover of the book Berlin’s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld with the original German title in old script enclosed by a wild cat with a garland below it in green and black, all against a pink-beige background.
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Going to the Canadian Association of Slavists conference in Edmonton next week? So am I. Want to talk about a book project? Send me an e-mail and we can find a time to chat (I won't have a book exhibit)
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Reading yet another opinion piece on the Clarivate pivot-to-subscriptions and it's starting to get to me. May I humbly suggest, even if just a short-term measure, mentioning that you can spend your money with publishers and platforms that *do* offer perpetual access?
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Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner @dr-tg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!
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Slavic Queer Studies
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New ebook storefront, associated with Bookshop.org. Interesting that's it'll pull from a non-Ingram source too (unless I'm missing something about Draft2Digital)
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A great-looking conference featuring the African and Asian perspectives on writing histories of the Holocaust from (post/de)colonial contexts, far beyond Shanghai and other better-explored “peripheries.” www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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African and South Asian Histories of the Holocaust
This workshop brings together scholars of Africa and South Asia to explore the intersections of African, South Asian, and Jewish experiences of the Holocaust. It will focus on historical encounters, i...
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thrilled for Andrea and for the field! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...
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2023 Book Prize Winner - Andrea Rottmann | Waterloo Centre for German Studies
2023 Book Prize Finalist
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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is wonderful and so well deserved!!! 😍 I had the chance to review it and it was one of my favourite books in queer history of the last decade!
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Andrea Rottmann Wins WCGS Book Prize 2023 | Waterloo Centre for German Studies
WCGS Book Prize 2023 Winner - Andrea Rottmann
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Congratulations to Andrea Rottmann, whose book "Queer Lives across the Wall" (@uoftpress.bsky.social) won the 2023 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...
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WCGS Book Prize | Waterloo Centre for German Studies
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Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I guess I'm trying Bluesky for a bit, so let's start with news you can use. @uoftpress.bsky.social has a new website utppublishing.com and that website comes with a big backlist sale: 1800 titles are all 75% off with the code WINTERSALE75 from now until January 6.
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