This year marks several honors for UC Press author and distinguished sociologist, Aldon Morris—including recognition as the incoming 2021 ASA President and the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Yet …
Read More >As many scholars can attest, this year’s ASA President Christine Williams is one of the most influential sociologists of the last half century. With almost too-many awards to count, Williams has challenged …
Read More >by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence If you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison …
Read More >By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …
Read More >By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
Read More >by Randy Shaw, author of The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century Blacks Lives Matter (BLM) has become the broadest, most diverse social movement of our time. Having written The …
Read More >by Carolyn McLaughlin, author of South Bronx Battles Last year, I released South Bronx Battles, a chronicle and tribute to the South Bronx as a community that has worked to create a …
Read More >By Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption Calls to defund the police often elicit fear. How will I stay safe, wonder people who associate …
Read More >The work of addressing society’s core challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of engagement and …
Read More >University of California Press recognizes and acknowledges this: Black Lives Matter.
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