author resources

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Jun

Author Q&A with Justin Brooks

“With issues like bad lawyering, bad science, and inadequate investigations, it’s easy to draw the line between the cause and effect of a wrongful conviction.”

30

May

The Fire That Burns

“For me, it is about the pain of living inequality; it is about a fire inside to build and create a more just world collectively.”

26

Apr

Teaching Science through the Social Context of Access to Safe Drinking Water

By Bhawani Venkataraman, author of The Paradox of Water: The Science and Policy of Safe Drinking Water Educational literature clearly shows how important it is for students to apply what they are …

17

Apr

Ask Our Staff: What does a Book Designer do?

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 …

11

Apr

Q&A with Diana W. Anselmo, author of A Queer Way of Feeling

Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in …

23

Mar

Why Sammy Davis Jr. Is Still Relevant to Today’s Discussions of Race

By Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era: A Cultural History It has been supremely challenging, in the face of the …

16

Mar

Meet Naja Pulliam Collins, our new Associate Editor of Geography and Environmental Studies

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 …

06

Jan

Ask Our Staff: What Does a Book Publicist Do?

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.

19

Dec

Lessons from the Wobblies for Labor Activism Today

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 …

14

Dec

The Rise of WFH Will Shift America’s Economic Geography

By Matthew E. Kahn, author of Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities Before the COVID Shock, urban economists told a familiar “tale of two …