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The year 2025 brought innumerable challenges to our communities, our democracy, and to the world of higher education. Despite the incursions made on our freedoms and institutions, the FirstGen Program at the University of California Press has much to celebrate. Across academic disciplines, from the ...

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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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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