Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. In January …
Read More >The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Guggenheim Fellowships this year. Among the recipients are several UC Press authors, honored for their outstanding achievements in Poetry, Film, Classics, Folklore/Popular Culture, and …
Read More >April 10, 2009 (Berkeley, CA) — University of California Press (UC Press) is pleased to announce it has received a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a strategic …
Read More >Ron Soodalter is a historian, folklorist, and lecturer. He is also the author of Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader, and has written articles on the …
Read More >John D. Blanco is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego. Blanco’s latest endeavor, Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century Philippines was published by …
Read More >UC Press is happy to announce that we are supporting the National Ocean Sciences Bowl which is organized by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. The event will take place on April 25-27 …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 16 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Kevin Bales and Ron …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 15 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Gary Okihiro as he …
Read More >For frogs, spring is a raucous affair of warm evenings. In these heady nights, the quiet of winter is ruptured by peeps, croaks, rattles, honks and cackles. An innocent evening walk was …
Read More >The Wines of Burgundy is nominated for a James Beard Award! In this updated sequel to the James Beard Award-winning Côte D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy, Clive Coates, …
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