Support University of South Carolina Press

Why We Need Your Support

For 81 years, University of South Carolina Press has published books that tell compelling stories, present innovative scholarship, and inspire conversations. Many of these more specialized books cost more to publish than their sales will support. Your gift to USC Press will enable the publication of critically important works that address national and global issues, and that illuminate the history and culture of South Carolina, the American South, and beyond.

If you would like to make a donation to the University of South Carolina Press, please select one of our fund options listed below, or contact Michael J. McGandy, director, at mcgandy@mailbox.sc.edu or 803-777-2243.

Direct Your Gift

Friends of University of South Carolina Press

Donations to the Friends of USC Press fund help us publish our excellent books. Your support will be used, for example, to allow our acquisitions editors to travel to key academic conferences and for our marketing team to advertise our books on local radio. Gifts extend our outreach and increase the profile of USC Press. Each friend of USC Press amplifies our essential work and your gifts allow us to continue sharing, in print and online, high-quality publications with our readers.

Student Internship Stipend Fund

Donations to our student internship stipend fund are used exclusively to pay our undergraduate interns for the work they contribute to USC Press while gaining valuable publishing experience. By offering a paid internship, we hope that any student who wants to learn about book publishing feels encouraged to apply, especially those who cannot afford to forgo a paycheck such as first-gen and low-income students. 

Accessibility in Publishing Fund

USC Press is committed to building accessibility into all facets of our work to make our digital content (e.g., ebooks, website, multimedia, and social media posts) fully available to users of assistive technology and people with disabilities. This means restructuring workflows and practices for new publications and content while remediating our older digital publications and website to meet current standards. Your donation to the Accessibility in Publishing Fund will support these efforts, which are time-consuming and costly, and help us remove barriers for access to allow a wider audience to engage with our work.

Civic Engagement and Social Justice Fund

USC Press has a tradition of publishing works that support civic engagement, encourage community conversation, and foster reckonings with past and present injustices affecting the citizens of South Carolina and the American South. Your donation will allow us to publish more of these works and to present them at retail prices that ensure that everyone can afford to read and engage with important ideas and stories. Gifts are used exclusively for publications that fulfill this part of our mission.