Among the things the past year has cast in relief is the fact that breathing is not something that simply happens — it is a skillful practice, not to say a political …
Read More >UC Press publishes numerous titles that center Palestinians and contribute to globalizing knowledge about the Palestinians in and beyond Palestine. In addition to the Journal of Palestine Studies and the open-access series …
Read More >By Moss Roberts, translator of The Analects: Conclusions and Conversations of Confucius The name Confucius received little attention in the mainstream American public until recently. With rising US-China tensions, there were protests …
Read More >By Ra‘anan Boustan, Co-Editor of Studies in Late Antiquity When I arrived at UCLA back in 2006 as an Assistant Professor, I had recently completed my graduate studies in the Department of …
Read More >For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North’s article, “California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic,” published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of …
Read More >Because COVID is ubiquitous, it is exhausting. However, we also knew we needed to do something. This forum is our compromise.
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! …
Read More >Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted …
Read More >May Day and International Workers’ Day commemorate the 1886 Chicago Haymarket affair and the fight for representation and rights for laborers worldwide — as well as the continuing efforts and struggle of the labor movement. …
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