“Behind the Scenes” series uncovers elements of book-making and publishing that make up our industry. A book represents a physical object that took the creative labor of a variety of people and …
Read More >Wondering how a book cover comes to be? In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Book Designer Kevin Barrett Kane about how he …
Read More >The Tropical Turn chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Naja Pulliam Collins is our new Associate Editor of Geography and Environmental Studies! Naja joined UC Press in 2021 and assisted the editors for environmental studies and …
Read More >UC Santa Cruz graduate student Nathan Osorio received a 2022-2023 Humanities Institute Public Fellowship to work with UC Press for the duration of the school year. He is the recipient of the …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that LeKeisha Hughes will be our new Associate Editor of Art History and Music! LeKeisha originally joined the UC Press team in 2021 as an editorial assistant. Prior …
Read More >In this video, our Associate Publicity Director Emily Grandstaff provides a brief overview of what to expect when it comes to book publicity, including what publicity is, what kinds of tasks a book publicist typically handles, and what authors can do to support publicity efforts.
Read More >By Josiah Ober, author of The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason In 1949, E.R. Dodds gave the Sather Classical Lectures and soon thereafter published a hugely influential book, …
Read More >By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was …
Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life The concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late …
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