In the latest UC Press podcast, Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, talks about his experiences reporting on working-class America for the last three decades. …
Read More >Distinguished author and archaeology scholar Lewis Binford died on Monday at age 79. UC Press published his last major work, Constructing Frames of Reference, which won the Society for American Archaeology’s book …
Read More >In this guest post, Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet (UC Press, June 2011) sheds light on the chilling case of Professor Boris Weisfeiler, one of …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to announce that Joel Robbins has received the J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research for Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua …
Read More >What’s your favorite vintage? 2005? 2007? How about 4100 B.C.? That’s the year scientists have dated the earliest known winery, discovered in a cavern in Armenia. The international team of researchers, based …
Read More >Patrick McGovern, author of Uncorking the Past, accompanied the owners of Dogfish Head Brewery on their quest to create an ancient Egyptian beer on the Discovery Channel show “Brew Masters” last week. …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that UC Press’s Native Tribes of North America map is now available digitally. The map displays the boundaries of hundreds of tribes across the continent, from the Eskimo …
Read More >UC Press author William F. Hanks was recently awarded the 2010 Sapir Book Prize at the annual meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. The Edward Sapir Book Prize is awarded in …
Read More >Susan Schaller, author of A Man Without Words, recently appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab for a show about language. Fans of Radiolab will love this episode, which examines the conundrums of language in …
Read More >Medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer and graduate student Jeff Schonberg spent 12 years among homeless heroin users on the streets of San Francisco, embedded in a world that is usually invisible …
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