UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our November 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >We’re thrilled to share the list of UC Press authors receiving awards at the 2023 American Anthropological Association conference! Please help us spread the news and visit our virtual exhibit page to …
Read More >The California Series in Public Anthropology is a groundbreaking collection of books that share a common goal: to emphasize the anthropologist’s role as an engaged intellectual. Books in the series affirm anthropology’s …
Read More >Cesraéa Rumpf, author of RECOVERING IDENTITY, writes about criminalized women “rehabilitating” their identities.
Read More >Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Atelier is a book series in anthropology that takes a ground-up approach to the acquisition and publication of new ethnographic works. Curating a cohort of scholars committed to the idea …
Read More >In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well …
Read More >By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different In 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal …
Read More >Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay …
Read More >Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.
Read More >Sahana Ghosh, author of “A Thousand Tiny Cuts” on borders and bordering South Asia.
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