Hagiography Society Article Prize-winner Dina Boero tells us about “stylites,” Christian saints who lived for years and even decades on top of columns.
"Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" author Lucy O'Sullivan answers questions about her ALAA-acknowledged article on "Martyrdom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
Congratulations to Erica Toffoli whose article “Electric Eyes: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and the Limits of the Border Patrol’s Technocratic Vision on the U.S.-Mexico Line” has won this year's Orsi Prize, which recognizes the best research essay published in the journal "California History" each year.
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our July 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Inspired by the COVID pandemic and his ongoing research on Japanese American history, historian Jonathan van Harmelen investigates the medical history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in urban areas, small towns, and rural America.
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our June 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our May 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!