UC Press Blog

The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.

Author Mona Sloane challenges AI's feared, inevitable transformation with a question we can ask when planning its infrastructure.

Author Sarah Brothers on the importance and challenges of "hit doctors."

Author Jia-Lin Liu speaks about the already determined futures for many children in China.

An interview between Public Seminar writer Gil Bittner and author Carly Thomsen about Thomsen's new book, Reproductive Justice, Queerly.

Author Michael Welch discusses the Bastille Effect, or the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally.

Author Sarah Bruhn on how immigrant women’s carework is as critical as public protest to contesting the hardships imposed by immigration enforcement practices.

Author Michael Welch on how he discovered the "pull of punishment," by which visitors are drawn into the cultural history of prisons, unfolding at former prisons.

Author Michael Welch presents an excerpt from his new book about the enduring meaning of containment and surveillance in post-conflict societies.

Author Benjamin R. Weiss on whether civil lawsuits are actually effective for victims of sexual violence.