Skip to main content
University of California Press

UC Press Blog

130 Results

Native peoples and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Q&A with Jennifer Bess

May 21 2025
Borders mark off the place where one nation ends and another begins. But what happens when you belong to a people that has lived on both sides of the border, since long before the border even existed?
Read More

UC Press April Award Winners

May 07 2025
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our April 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Read More

"Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Announces Christian Zlolniski Award for Best Early-Career Article

Apr 29 2025
MS/EM's early career article award, which has been renamed in honor of its most recent emeritus editor, is now accepting self-nominations.
Read More

UC Press March Award Winners

Apr 02 2025
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our March 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Read More

The Multiplying Pathways of the Feminist Incomplete

Mar 31 2025
The co-editors of "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film," winner of the SCMS 2025 Best Edited Collection Award, highlight five new projects that expand the horizons of the feminist incomplete.
Read More

UC Press February Award Winners

Mar 04 2025
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our February 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Read More

Uncovering Stand-Up Comedy’s Feminist Media History

Feb 22 2025
Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.
Read More

Bounce Back: 5 Queer Bounce Artists To Twerk To

Feb 07 2025
“Twerking” is now part of the national vocabulary, but is largely misunderstood, especially its distinctly queer iterations. JPMS author Lauron J. Kehrer discusses the origins of New Orleans bounce and suggests a playlist.
Read More

UC Press January Award Winners

Feb 03 2025
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our January 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Read More

UC Press December Award Winners

Jan 06 2025
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our December 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Read More