September 23 – 28 is 2019’s Banned Books Week. Held annually since 1982 and sponsored by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, Banned Books Week is celebrated “in shared …
Read More >At this year’s American Sociological Association conference, we celebrate the work of our award-winning authors. Congratulations to our wonderful scholars, teachers, and activists. #ASA19 #ScholarActivist Abigail Leslie Andrews, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the …
Read More >By Lia Tjandra, UC Press Art Director, with Jessica Moll, UC Press Senior Editor There is a special kind of excitement I feel when designing a book series. It’s more challenging than …
Read More >During the third annual Mobilization conference from May 10-11 at San Diego State University, learn more about books on social movements, non-violent protests, and resistance. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization …
Read More >For three decades, scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore has been advocating for prison abolition. She has theorized it and practiced it. For Gilmore, prison abolition means not just the closing of prisons but, …
Read More >Art historian and professor Joan Kee will be appearing at two events in Southern California later this month around the recent publication of her book, Models of Integrity: Art and Law in …
Read More >April is Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), and UC Press is jazzed to celebrate! Founded in 2001 by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, JAM serves to recognize the collective influence jazz musicians, …
Read More >This excerpt is published as part of our blog series in conjunction with the Organization of American Historians conference in Philadelphia from April 4-7, 2019. Share using #OAH19. In his engrossing new …
Read More >This guest post is published as part of our blog series in conjunction with the Organization of American Historians conference in Philadelphia from April 4-7, 2019. Share using #OAH19. By Sylvie Laurent, …
Read More >This guest post is published during the Academy of Criminal Justice Science conference in Baltimore, occurring March 26-30, 2019, and in relation to this year’s ACJS theme of Justice, Human Rights, and Activism. …
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