Category: Behind the Scenes

Finding Art

Guest post by Susan Ventura, Senior Graphic Artist Being a graphic designer at JHU Press means knowing a little bit about many things, frequently saying “we need more white space,” always searching for art, and creating catalog after catalog after catalog. If you were to put all of the catalogs I have designed at the…

Finding Art

Guest post by Susan Ventura, Senior Graphic Artist Being a graphic designer at JHU Press means knowing a little bit about many things, frequently saying “we need more white space,” always searching for art, and creating catalog after catalog after catalog. If you were to put all of the catalogs I have designed at the…

Where research meets real life

by Janet Gilbert Journals Direct Response and Renewals Senior Coordinator How many of us have been sought out by a colleague, friend, or child making a difficult decision or processing a challenging event, and jumped in immediately with our own experience, advice, and judgment? Simple, silent listening is extremely difficult, but crucial to understanding and…

Where research meets real life

by Janet Gilbert Journals Direct Response and Renewals Senior Coordinator How many of us have been sought out by a colleague, friend, or child making a difficult decision or processing a challenging event, and jumped in immediately with our own experience, advice, and judgment? Simple, silent listening is extremely difficult, but crucial to understanding and…

Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives

Guest post by Alicia Aldrete As the wife, research assistant, and sometimes coauthor of an ancient historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, I had expected to spend many hours in libraries, wandering through foreign museums, and climbing around ancient sites. However, I had not foreseen large groups of weapon-wielding students in our…