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UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our March 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Justin Brooks 2024 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts, Books Finalis

The California Series in Public Anthropology is a groundbreaking collection of books that share a common goal: to emphasize the anthropologist’s role as an engaged intellectual. Books in the series affirm anthropology’s commitment to bearing ethnographic witness, to describing, through stories, how

In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes. Their determination to recover their land, cultures, and histories for future gen