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UC Press March Award Winners
Apr 02 2025
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our March 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors
Apr 02 2025
As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its apparent insubstantiality.
Making Chemistry Palatable to Students Through Cooking
Apr 02 2025
Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.
An Exploration into India’s Adult Film Industry
Apr 01 2025
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, author of "Rated A," speaks about labor in soft porn in India and the unflattering treatment of actors.
The Satellites Behind Subscription Listening
Apr 01 2025
Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio
News: Recent UC Press Book Signings
Mar 31 2025
We're thrilled to announce a selection of our latest book signings!
Q&A with Julia Alekseyeva, author of "Antifascism and the Avant-Garde"
Mar 31 2025
Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.
The Multiplying Pathways of the Feminist Incomplete
Mar 31 2025
The co-editors of "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film," winner of the SCMS 2025 Best Edited Collection Award, highlight five new projects that expand the horizons of the feminist incomplete.
Q&A with Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia"
Mar 30 2025
Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia" and "World Socialist Cinema" discusses how the 70's Mexican melodrama "Yesenia" became the highest grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition—and what we can learn by studying popular culture on a global scale.
The Intersection of Therapeutic and Spiritual Practices
Mar 30 2025
"Golden States" author Eileen Luhr writes about her new book and how it ties into the current climate.