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UC Press December Award Winners

Jan 12 2026

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our December 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

South Asian Colonized Hired Work

Jan 07 2026

Author Titas Chakraborty on the English East India Company's history of using colonized hired work.

Q&A with Cindy Nguyen, author of "Bibliotactics"

Jan 07 2026

Author Cindy Nguyen shares her journey of her process and reading culture in Vietnam.

An Exclusive Look at "Sails & Shadows" by Patricia Seed

Jan 06 2026

An excerpt from Patricia Seed's "Sails & Shadows"

Mechele Dickerson on Saving the Middle Class

Jan 05 2026

Author Mechele Dickerson explains why everyone should care about the health of the middle class, and what we can do to save it.

Making Care Affordable is Key to Our Economic Future

Jan 02 2026

Author Nancy Folbre explains why no amount of economic growth is going to make care provision affordable—unless we commit to putting people first.

Queering Economics for a Better Future

Dec 30 2025

Authors Leanne Roncolato and Michael E. Martell on building a better and more inclusive economics.

Climbing a Ladder or Buying a Lottery Ticket?

Dec 28 2025

Author Gary Hoover on who really gets ahead in a market-based economy.

How Hollywood Dramatized the Berlin Airlift: A Q&A with Joseph Pearson

Dec 20 2025

Both propaganda and entertainment, George Seaton’s film, "The Big Lift," released in 1950, starring Montgomery Clift, saw Hollywood dramatize the struggles of post-war Berlin and the Berlin Airlift.