UPF on the Road: A Look at Our 2016–2017 Exhibit Season

Last year, we traveled across the U.S. and Canada to display our books at conferences and book fairs. Join us in looking back over this past year of exhibits!

We started off the 2016–2017 exhibit season with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance at Savannah, Georgia in September 2016.

Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance

In October we went to the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Richmond, Virginia and showed off lots of books in African American studies. These were some of the books on display:

We brought lots of our archaeology titles to the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Athens, Georgia.

November was our busiest month on the road! We saw many of our authors at the Southern Historical Association meeting in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Brian Ward, author of “Creating and Consuming the American South”

Gregory Mixon, author of “Show Thyself a Man”

Cherisse Jones-Branch, author of “Crossing the Line”

Bruce Baker, author of “After Slavery”

Robert Cassanello, author of “To Render Invisible”

And even more of our authors visited us at the Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading in St. Petersburg, Florida!

Gary Monroe, author of “E. G. Barnhill”

Albert C. Hine, author of “Sea Level Rise in Florida”

Jeff Klinkenberg, author of “Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators”

We had a great time at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Pasadena, California, where we showcased our books on modernist studies.

We always love showing off our books at the Miami Book Fair International in Miami, Florida!

Cathy Salustri, author of “Backroads of Paradise,” signs books for attendees.

Albert Hine, author of “Sea Level Rise in Florida”

Gary Monroe, author of “E. G. Barnhill”

Tameka Bradley Hobbs, author of “Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home”

In January, we went to the Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in Fort Worth, Texas, and displayed our books on anthropology and archaeology.

In March, we took our books to Nashville, Tennessee for the African American Intellectual History Society conference. Here are a few of our most popular titles from the meeting:

We brought new archaeology books to one of our largest meetings of the year, the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. These were some of our bestsellers:

At the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies annual conference in Gainesville, Florida we displayed many of our Latin American studies titles.

In April, we attended the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here are some of the books we brought with us:

And we had a great time in Tallahassee, Florida at the Word of South Festival.

In May, we went to the Florida Anthropological Society meeting in Jacksonville, Florida. Here were some of our bestsellers:

We brought our fantastic books in gardening and the environment to our last meeting of the year, the Florida Native Plant Society conference in River Ranch, Florida.

Peggy Lantz, author of “Florida’s Edible Wild Plants”

Ginny Stibolt, author of “The Art of Maintaining a Florida Native Landscape”

Roger L. Hammer (left), author of “Attracting Hummingbirds and Butterflies in Tropical Florida” and Walter Kingsley Taylor (right), author of “Florida Wildflowers”