Author Interviews

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Oct

Q&A with Emma Day, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar

A conversation with FirstGen scholar Emma Day, author of “In Her Hands: Women’s Fight against AIDS in the United States”

17

Oct

Q&A with Merry (Corky) White & Benjamin Wurgaft

Wurgaft and White—son and mother—make delightful company as they guide us through everything from the birth of agriculture to the lamination in a croissant in modern-day Tokyo. From the origins of agriculture …

03

Oct

Q&A with Tristin K. Green, author of Racial Emotion at Work

Tristin Green’s new book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it. Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling …

27

Sep

Author Q&A with Jasmin Sandelson

My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their …

26

Sep

Q&A with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Now updated with a new prologue and epilogue, Seth Holmes’ bestselling book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois provides an intimate examination …

19

Sep

Q&A with Cynthia Enloe, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War

“Twelve Feminist Lessons of War should be treated as a celebration of Enloe’s groundbreaking work.”—Megan MacKenzie for The World Today Named a “Top 10 Book for International Women’s Day” by International Affairs Renowned …

01

Aug

Author Q&A with Kristi Upson-Saia

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE) is a new sourcebook that provides an expansive picture of medical and healing practices in ancient Greece and Rome for students …

22

Jun

Q&A with Alberto Garcia: First-gen Scholar and Accomplished UC Press Author

Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University. Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work …

01

Jun

Author Q&A with Justin Brooks

“With issues like bad lawyering, bad science, and inadequate investigations, it’s easy to draw the line between the cause and effect of a wrongful conviction.”

18

Apr

Q&A with Jordan S. Rubin, author of Bizarro

Bizarro is a page-turning tale of the unprecedented prosecution of Burton Ritchie and Ben Galecki, the Florida-based founders of a sprawling “spice” (synthetic cannabinoid) operation. With this book, journalist and former New York …