Skip to main content
University of California Press

UC Press Blog

5 Results

Demystifying the Dissertation-to-Book Process with Michelle Lipinski

Apr 29 2024
On March 8, 2024, the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group welcomed University of California Press Senior Editor, Michelle Lipinski, for the online event Demystifying Dissertation-to-Book. This talk breaks down the steps and the often winding pathways scholars can take from finishing a diss
Read More

Peer Review Week 2022: An interview with Collabra: Psychology’s Eiko Fried

Sep 19 2022
Openness is necessary to allow the research community, journalists, policy makers, and other stakeholders to evaluate research. Without transparency, only the researchers who carried out the research can evaluate their own findings
Read More

Peer Review Week 2021: A Q&A with Collabra: Psychology Editor-in-Chief Simine Vazire

Sep 20 2021
"I think many of us have been coasting on the uncritically positive reputation that peer review has among both scientists and the public - as if peer review is an almost magical process. Showing how the sausage is made will hopefully put some pressure on peer review to come closer to living up to it
Read More

Visual Culture & the Climate Crisis

Sep 23 2020
Afterimage's recent relaunch with the University of California Press integrates the journal's legacy of contemporary arts and media criticism with an expanded commitment to scholarly essays. As part of this mission, the editorial team wanted to approach the journal as a unique venue for academics to
Read More

Editor’s Spotlight: Meet Bo Ruberg, Associate Editor of Afterimage

Sep 21 2020
Bo Ruberg has recently joined colleagues in film and media studies and art history as an associate editor of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Fellow associate editor, Lucas Hilderbrand, did a Q&A to welcome Bo to the team and to introduce them to readers and potentia
Read More