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Announcing the 2021 Atelier Series Finalists
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 >How Queer Readings of Premodern Japanese Texts Help Us Redefine Desire
By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji When I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the …
Read More >#SCMS21 Award Spotlight: Q&A with Brian Jacobson
We’re proud to announce that Brian Jacobson, editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments has won the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award! …
Read More >University Press Week 2020: Raising Up Local Voices with A People’s Guides to Boston and San Francisco
Happy University Press Week 2020! This year, the Association of University Presses‘s theme, “Raise UP” / #RaiseUP highlights the role that the university press community plays in elevating authors, subjects, and whole disciplines, …
Read More >#MESA2020: Meet with UC Press Editor Eric Schmidt—Virtually
Our Editors are taking brief Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.
Read More >#MESA020: Meet with UC Press Editor Niels Hooper—Virtually
Our Editors are taking brief Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.
Read More >Virtual Event: Author Deborah Wong on Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko
Join Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong for a live conversation about her book, Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko, hosted by UC Riverside. In conversation with Sean Miura, …
Read More >What Fascist Lies Teach Us About Current Politics: A Virtual Conversation with Federico Finchelstein
Why are the lies fascists tell so significant to their political power? Federico Finchelstein, a world-renowned historian and Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, …
Read More >Matt P. Canepa Wins Wiseman Award
UC Press is pleased to share that the Archaeological Institute of America has awarded the 2020 James R. Wiseman Book Award to The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and …
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