UC Press Blog

Author Panpan Yang on studying the romance between animation and other visual mediums.

What happens to the history of technology when we take animals seriously as agents rather than as objects of control?

Author Shelly Lundberg discusses the economics profession’s slow and still-incomplete recognition that women must be studied as independent agents with their own interests and constraints.

Highlighting UC Press’s accomplishments during the 2025-26 fiscal year and our vision for the future.

Author Colin Rhinesmith on how community coalitions can reduce technological harms and inequality by building local power and advancing digital equity.

Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.

Refresh your syllabus with JSAH Roundtables that bring timely, field-expanding perspectives on trans experiences, race, Indigeneity, and global architectural histories into the classroom.

Author Sarah Brothers on the importance and challenges of "hit doctors."

Author Jia-Lin Liu speaks about the already determined futures for many children in China.

If Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has you thinking about Homer's epic, dive deeper with a curated selection of free-to-read scholarship from "Classical Antiquity" that reveals new ways to understand one of literature's greatest adventures.