As we convene virtually for this year’s conference of the American Studies Association, we invite you to read the current issues of the following journals for free from the comfort of your …
Read More >As we celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight our award-winning journal, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Editor-in-Chief Charlene Villaseñor Black was recently featured in a profile in …
Read More >Jointly organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Maryland, the Association of Historians of American Art Biennial Symposium will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of AHAA (2019) and the fiftieth anniversary …
Read More >Although the 2021 American Studies Association meeting is now virtual, it was originally set to take place in Puerto Rico with the theme “Creativity within Revolt.” According to ASA, “revolt expresses a will …
Read More >At the turn of the previous century, during the Porfiriato, Mexico lived through a time of technological revolutions that modified ways of perceiving time, distance, and sounds. Consider the phonograph, created by …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from September 2021. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by …
Read More >A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life …
Read More >By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds I was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an …
Read More >September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera …
Read More >“You can imagine how if we wanted to create algorithms that could help inform judicial decisions or credit scoring systems or employment decisions and we did so by training those algorithms on existing, human-made decisions in these areas, then all of the biases underlying those human decisions would inform the algorithmic decisions as well”
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