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Author Kent Dunlap on the diversity and evolution of necks and what the neck teaches us about human culture.

Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.

Examining the case of Colombia, author Alexander Huezo, discusses the challenges and opportunities of applying a global environmental justice framework outside the U.S. communities where it began.

A fresh reexamination of Wayne Thiebaud as a self-described “art thief."

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!

Meet David Feltmate, editor of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture," which is now published by UC Press.

The pages of UC Press’s journals have examined the War from a myriad of angles, from all sides of the conflict–its global economic and political impact, the role of student activism, memory in small-town America, and more.

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

A preview of the Spring 2025 issue of "Pacific Historical Review," which takes readers to World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.

Afterimage's new special issue, "Aesthetics of Perplexity," is interested in examining perplexity as an aesthetic category, in which the experience of confusion or bewilderment can be harnessed as an artistic tactic.