Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Fine’s latest edition of Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work was released this month by UC Press. For additional thoughts …
Read More >Literature has the power to impart valuable wisdom—but if no one reads it, the insights never see the light. According to a 2004 report from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), …
Read More >The Charleston Conference has quickly become a place where libraries, vendors, and publishers come together to talk about what’s next for digital collection development. This year’s program seemed particularly appealing, so I …
Read More >Barack Obama has named Bill Ivey, author of Arts, Inc., to his transition team for arts and culture. Ivey is currently Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 8 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In November’s episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews a film historian/producer and …
Read More >Christopher G. White is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vassar College and contributes to the blog for The Social Science Research Council, The Immanent Frame. White is also the author of, Unsettled …
Read More >One of the most extraordinary poems included in Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson’s forthcoming magisterial Poems for the Millennium, Volume 3: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry …
Read More >Congratulations to UC Press author Ruth Wilson Gilmore, whose book, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, won the American Studies Association’s 2008 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. …
Read More >The husband and wife team of Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman chronicle and examine the people who work the night shifts, as well as the locations in which they do …
Read More >Paul A. Cohen is Professor of History Emeritus at Wellesley College and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. In his book, Speaking to History: The Story of King …
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