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Author Glenda M. Flores on the medical school journey of Latina/o physicians.

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?

In the same way that impunity reigns today, it reigned supreme in 1970s Mexico. Gladys McCormick writes about how state-sponsored torture became routine practice in the Mexican government's war against subversives.

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.