project collections
New and featured open-access titles from the University of Arizona Press, available on Open Arizona.
The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition (1886–1889), directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, was the first privately funded expedition to the American Southwest. The volumes in this collection examine the expedition through the diaries and writings of those who participated. These volumes are part of the Southwest Center Series.
In June of 2022, thanks to a grant from the NEH, we added several backlist titles in archaeology. These titles expand our understandings of the ancient Southwest and demonstrate the University of Arizona’s Press’s long-standing excellence in the field of archaeology.
The projects in this collection include new original essays by some of today's leading scholars.
In 2017, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded $73,000 to the University of Arizona to support Open Arizona: A Humanities Open Book Initiative. The grant allowed the University of Arizona Press to undertake a three-year program to make available in an open access format two dozen critical works of scholarship that had formerly been out of print.
