UC Press Blog

Author William T. L. Cox on the future of DEI work, and how to actually change bias in our everyday lives based on scientific evidence.

Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers offer perspective on cultural geography and Black belonging in Oakland on the AAG panel, "Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."

Author Joss T. Greene traces how changing prison systems have shaped the treatment of transgender prisoners across decades.

Author Tara Mulder on her unique perspective as a classicist and daughter of a homebirth midwife and how she reconstructed ancient women's lost stories of childbirth and pregnancy.

Author Deana Weibel on the ultraview effect and what the recent Artemis II mission shows us about the powerful experience of awe.

Two special sections of "Gastronomica" place the spotlight on microbes to explicitly draw our attention to this invisible layer of life in foods and food systems.

Author Jennifer Randles on the social, economic and political significance of diapers for families in the US.

What exactly is the Mishnah? Author Ishay Rosen-Zvi scratches the surface of one of the most daring Jewish intellectual projects of antiquity.

The editor team of "Environmental Sociology Now" on the future of the discipline, the goal of this exciting new volume, and how to use it in classrooms and research agendas.

An exclusive look at Charlotte Brooks's THE MOYS OF NEW YORK AND SHANGHAI with an intro by the author.