UC Press Blog

In the summer of 2020, following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the United States and the ensuing global protests against anti-Black racism led by the Black Lives Matter movement, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial ine

By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC PressWhoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o

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

Watch Parts 1 and 2 of our EA Roundtable.As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?In this EA Roundtable video seri

In this video, Stephanie Summerhays, senior production editor and FirstGen Program Committee member, discusses the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people authors will work with throughout the process.

As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?In this EA Roundtable video series, our Asian and Latin American Studies Edit

We are pleased to introduce the incoming co-editors-in-chief for Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture who will assume their positions in January 2024 after the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down.Mariola Alvarez is a historian of Latin American

UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships.

“Behind the Scenes” series uncovers elements of book-making and publishing that make up our industry. Throughout the publishing process, authors may come across industry terms in their conversations with our staff as we work together.Below are few common publishing terms and their definitions:

Erich van Rijn will serve as the Director of UC Press and Kim Robinson will serve as the Deputy Director.