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Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound
Jun 26 2024
Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o
Floods aren’t going away — and there’s a better path to handling them
Apr 02 2024
By Tim Palmer, author of Seek Higher Ground: The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding CrisisAs the water rose during the most damaging flood in American history up to that time, I happened to be living at ground-zero of the storm. My house was narrowly spared, but neighbors suffered deepl
UC Press Award-Winning Authors
Jan 06 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners December 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Daniel Caner 2023 Phillip Schaff Prize The Photography Network American So
Q&A with Damien Sojoyner, author of Joy and Pain
Nov 09 2022
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums is a poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people—and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future.At the Southern California Library—a community organiz
Recommended Weed Reads on the Politics and Policies Around Marijuana
Apr 20 2022
Where Bright Minds Share Bold Ideas
Announcing the 2021 Atelier Series Finalists
Sep 16 2021
Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Atelier is a book series in anthropology that takes a ground-up approach to the acquisition and publication of new ethnographic works. Curating a cohort of scholars committed to the idea that ethnographic writing is itself a form of intellectual work, Atelier enables c
How Queer Readings of Premodern Japanese Texts Help Us Redefine Desire
Aug 25 2021
By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of GenjiWhen I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the book about sexuality, spatial representation, and sensation I wish had existed when I first encountered premodern Japanese
#SCMS21 Award Spotlight: Q&A with Brian Jacobson
Mar 16 2021
We’re proud to announce that Brian Jacobson, editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments has won the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award!We reached out to Jacobson as part of our #SCMS2021 virtual conference series to discuss his awar
University Press Week 2020: Raising Up Local Voices with A People’s Guides to Boston and San Francisco
Nov 11 2020
Happy University Press Week 2020! This year, the Association of University Presses's theme, "Raise UP" / #RaiseUP highlights the role that the university press community plays in elevating authors, subjects, and whole disciplines, bringing new perspectives, ideas, and voices to readers around the gl
#MESA2020: Meet with UC Press Editor Eric Schmidt—Virtually
Oct 06 2020
Our Editors are taking brief Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.