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UC Press 2024 Annual Report – UC Press Blog
From Our New Executive Director As the relatively new executive director of the University of California Press, I am delighted to share this annual report with you. The report highlights some of the Press’s accomplishments during the 2023–24 fiscal year, as well as our vision for the future. The
Ten years after the death of Michael Brown, the conditions that led to the uprisings remain – UC Press Blog
Today is the ten-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death and a critical moment to reflect on the uprisings. While some view these contemporary revolts as solely driven by police aggression, our modern unrest narrative is more complex.
UC Press Launches Animal History, Documenting the Histories of Animals and Human-Animal Relationships – UC Press Blog
Animal History publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, documenting the impacts animals have had on global histories, cultures, languages, technologies, and environments as well as the impacts that humans have had on animals and their pas
UC Press July Award Winners – UC Press Blog
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our July 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Ori Burton 25th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize, Finalist Melbern G. Glasscock
How to Make a Home in the City – UC Press Blog
By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America I never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved neighborho
Speculative algorithms are the new invisible cage for workers – UC Press Blog
By Hatim Rahman, author of Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers It was barely a decade ago that many of us became enamored by the “gig” economy. Booking a room, ride, or restaurant took seconds and could be done at virtually any time or place. A major factor enabling the g
Q&A with Nicole Bedera, author of On the Wrong Side – UC Press Blog
The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetr
Q&A with Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, author of Handcrafted Careers – UC Press Blog
As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives headfirst into the everyday lives of workers in the craft beer indust
Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors – UC Press Blog
In the summer of 2020, following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the United States and the ensuing global protests against anti-Black racism led by the Black Lives Matter movement, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial ine
Racial Diversity and Belonging in Hawaiian History – UC Press Blog
The annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) is being held from July 31-August 2, 2024, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. In light of the conference's location, the editors of the PCB-AHA's official journal, the Pacific Historic
Special issue on Feminist Histories is now available from Pacific Historical Review – UC Press Blog
The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedman. At PHR’s ed
Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information – UC Press Blog
By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age This post was originally published on The Conversation. The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has rece
Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions – UC Press Blog
Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit
Do You Want AI To Be Used in Your Healthcare? – UC Press Blog
By Charles Binkley, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being introduced into every sector of the human experience, and healthcare is no exception. AI models were first used in radiology in the 1980s to aid radiologists in interpretin
No Age Limit for Justice: A Q&A with Jennifer Robin Terry, winner of the 2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize – UC Press Blog
Jennifer Robin Terry This year's Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, "Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975," published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide variety of
Celebrating 10 Years of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene – UC Press Blog
In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication highlights fro
Making the Most of Your Art Program – UC Press Blog
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC Press Whoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o
UC Press June Award Winners – UC Press Blog
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our June 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Abigail Andrews Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award 2024, Hon
Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound – UC Press Blog
Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o
How Five Refugee Women Found Sisterhood and Solidarity – UC Press Blog
For World Refugee Day, we share the words of the refugee women featured in Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Accidental Sisters follows five refugee women in Houston, Texas, as they navigate a program for single mothers overseen by Alia Altikrity, a form
Americans used to unite over tragic events − and now are divided by them – UC Press Blog
Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today. Every year, horrific crises induce tremendous suffering. Most are privately tragic, affecting only those directly harmed and their immediate relations. A small number, though, become politically notorious and, therefore, publicly tragic.
An Interview with Yvette J. Saavedra, winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize – UC Press Blog
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. This year, hist
Ethical AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare – UC Press Blog
By Charles Binkley and Tyler Loftus, co-authors of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making Encoding Bioethics begins where all good healthcare stories begin: in the trenches of patient care. We have many professional roles in healthcare, but above all, we are surgeons. Providing the be
Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments – UC Press Blog
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experi
Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum – UC Press Blog
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat
Recovering the transnational history of the Sandinista Revolution – UC Press Blog
By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving rifles, fl
A Critical Yet Hopeful Comic on Pregnancy Privacy – UC Press Blog
By Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski, co-editors of Feminist Cyberlaw After the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many feared that America was returning to a time before Roe v. Wade. They were wrong. As Feminist Cyberlaw contributor Cynthia Conti-Cook cau
The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants – UC Press Blog
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportat
Critical Wage Theory — A Timely New Approach to an Old Problem – UC Press Blog
By Ruben J. Garcia, author of Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice Raising the federal minimum wage is not a front burner issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign. Other important issues such as the war in Gaza, the trials of former President Donald Trump, or the futur
Fetal personhood laws have been around for years. Why are we only angry now? – UC Press Blog
By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood When I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour
UC Press May Award Winners – UC Press Blog
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our May 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Abigail Andrews 2023 C. Wright Mills Award, FinalistSociety for the Study of So
We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis – UC Press Blog
This post was originally published on DeSmog. By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation I grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination. Its culture inspired iconic works and political move
Q&A with Sunaura Taylor, author of Disabled Ecologies – UC Press Blog
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship
On publishing Open-Access, with author Adrienne Strong – UC Press Blog
What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her experience publis
Q&A with David Gilbert, author of Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land – UC Press Blog
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
Inside a thought-provoking ethnography of a southern US District Attorney’s Office – UC Press Blog
Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of
Understanding Christianity Through Magical Objects – UC Press Blog
Ritual Boundaries is part of the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series. By Joseph E. Sanzo, author of Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity What do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid? The COVID-19 pandemic required many of us to