To honor Paul Farmer's legacy, spirit, and commitment to global health equity, UC Press is proud to share Partner to the Poor widely and accessibly. A free PDF is available to download now:
In recognition of the impact of coronavirus on campus instruction and the rise of unplanned distance learning, University of California Press is pleased to make all of our online journals content free to all through June 2020.
We 👏 are 👏 re-releasing 👏 a 👏 cloth👏edition 👏of👏Dictée 👏 restored 👏 to 👏Cha's👏 original👏 vision👏 for👏 the👏 book👏 this👏 September👏 2022👏 in👏 partnership👏 with👏
@BAMPFA
👏 but👏 until 👏 then 👏 we 👏 keep 👏 this 👏 edition👏in👏print:
UC Press is excited to announce the beginnings of our FirstGen Scholars Program! We're developing this program as part of our organizational mission to publish & support a diverse community of scholars.
Take our
#FirstGen
Scholars Book Publishing Survey:
Hot off the press! Badges without Borders exposes the connections between foreign counterinsurgency and domestic policing. Congratulations on your brilliant book, Stuart!
We're delighted to learn that Samin Nosrat
@CiaoSamin
has selected "My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking" by Niloufer Ichaporia King as one of her 10 desert island selections for
@OneGrandBooks
!
In recognition of the impact of coronavirus on campus instruction and the rise of unplanned distance learning, University of California Press is pleased to make all of our online journals content free to all through June 2020.
UC Press is honored to be the publisher of Sam Dubal's 2018 book, "Against Humanity: Lessons from the Lord's Resistance Army."
Our thoughts are with the Dubal family.
.
@UCBerkeley
Professor
#RonaldRael
staged an intervention along the
#usmexicoborder
between New Mexico and Ciudad Juárez today, bringing one of his benevolent conceptualizations of the
#borderwall
present in his UC Press book to life.
Beginning in January, UC Press will be the publisher of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, which is currently featured as the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
@celj_editors
Journal of the Month 👀
🎉🎉👏🏾👏🏾 Congratulations are in order for Orly Clerge
@oclerge
, winner of
@ASAnews
's 2020 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture for "The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia"
Congratulations, Aldon Morris, winner of the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award!
#ASA
#ASA2020
(Read our Q&A with Aldon Morris about the award: )
Graced by the presence of the original
@divafeminist
at
#2022ASA
!
Treva Lindsey's "America Goddam" is an important and timely must-read book so drop by booth 200 to check it out!
The books on the following reading list help provide context on black lives and community around the protests in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and many others.
Congratulations to
@marisollebron
! Her book “Policing Life and Death” received honorable mention for the 2020 Lora Romero First Book Prize from
@AmerStudiesAssn
#2020ASA
Learn more about the book:
"The lies might have led to a false perception of safety, putting followers of far-right leaders in danger of getting sick and giving them tangible evidence that they were being lied to."
@FinchelsteinF
#xenophobia
via
@qz
UC Press is committed to supporting the research of Black scholars & we’re so proud of our many award-winning and acclaimed authors. For this year’s
#ASA2020
, we want to spotlight some the of Black sociologists making waves with their scholarship.
#ASA20
“Anthropology matters because people matter and I don’t know any other academic discipline that takes people so seriously, that cares so much what people think, say, do, that embraces human relationships as the basis of knowledge.” -
@ievaju
#AnthroDay
While every citizen was ordered to cover their face, Muslim women who covered their face for religious purposes were legally reprimanded and fined 150 euros, 15 more than the penalty for violating the new face mask mandate.
@KhaledBeydoun
via
@AnalystNews_
New editorial positions are open at UC Press!
We are looking for an Associate Editor for Art & Music and an Associate Editor for Geography and Environmental Studies. Salaries are included in the listings—here's where to apply:
#ASA2021
: Meet Naomi Schneider, our fabulous sociology editor. Naomi explains what kind of projects she's looking for, what motivates her approach as an editor, and even showcases her special secret talent - limerick-writing!
@NaomiUCPress
This Friday, 2pm EDT: Don't miss this
#OAH2021
book panel, "Exploring Boyle Heights through the Eyes of George Sanchez," w/
@The_OAH
President. In discussion w/
@Prof_NataliaM
(
@USC
), Matthew Jacobson (
@Yale
), & Rachel Klein (
@USC
).
Get 40% off the book:
In honor of the 40th anniversary of
@BlackMuseums
, we're inviting you to read The Public Historian's special issue on "The State of Black Museums" for free online for a limited time.
#AAAM2018
@ncph
Prof. Ruth Wilson Gilmore was awarded the AAG Lifetime Achievement Award, with
@theAAG
calling her the “quintessential intellectual-activist”
@cunygcees
UC Press stands with
#DACA
recipients, and remains dedicated to support this fight by continuing to publish important scholarship related to this issue (such as “Lives in Limbo” by
@RGGonzales1
) and immigration reform as a whole.
#IStandWithImmigrants
#UCDACA
#UC4DACA
Rest in power, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
UC Press is honored to officially announce that its lead title for Spring 2021 is by Justice Ginsburg, on her life’s work and fight for gender equality.
Congrats to
@marisollebron
, author of 'Policing Life and Death,' for earning Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding Book Award from the
@LASACONGRESS
Latino/a Studies section!
Learn more:
#LASA2021
A politician vilifies left-wing college students and professors, helping to raise his profile before running for national office.
@PacHistReview
tells the story. via
@JSTOR_Daily
We're proud to reveal the timely front cover of our Fall 2021 frontlist catalog, based on the poignant design of the forthcoming 'A Field Guide to White Supremacy' by
@kathleen_belew
and Ramón A. Gutiérrez
#ReadUP
Attending
#LASA2021
next week? Pitch your book idea to editor Kate Marshall (
@desperatelyred
)! You can read more about Kate's approach as an editor, the type of projects she's looking for, and how to connect here:
#LatinAmerica
We close out our original
#ASA2023
content with Calvin John Smiley (
@UptownKastro
), author of PURGATORY CITIZENSHIP, and the cost of the current system of reentering society after prison.
We're proud to announce our Spring 2022 frontlist catalog, which features the stunning work of artist Delita Martin from the cover of Treva Lindsey's (aka
@divafeminist
) forthcoming book 'America, Goddam'.
#ReadUP
View the catalog:
UC Press is excited to announce our
#FirstGen
Scholars Program! Please help us publish & support a diverse community of scholars, by taking our book publishing survey.
Non-first gen and not-yet-published scholars also encouraged to participate!
BEA is excited to announce the 2024 BEA Book Award recipient is
@joshshepperd
@CUBoulder
for his book: Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting.
@LibraryCongress
RPTF
We love seeing authors at
#ASA2022
!
@paigelsweet
poses with her award-winning book, "The Politics of Surviving," which explores how women navigate domestic violence and its aftermath.
Great to see
@evynelevyn
at
#MESA2022
! Her
#openaccess
book ARCHIPELAGO OF RESETTLEMENT explores what happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement.
Many artists have been profoundly influenced by Jerome Rothenberg's "Technicians of the Sacred"—
#AllenGinsberg
,
@NickCave
, Anne Waldman, to name a few. After 50 years, it continues to expand the possibilities of what poetry is. (Cc:
@PoetryFound
@POETSorg
)
Histories of California’s rural communities, and thus histories of California, are incomplete if they do not acknowledge the contributions of African Americans. via
@ucpress
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistory
@drklittlej
and her ASA award winning book JUST GET ON THE PILL! Congrats on this amazing and well-deserved accomplishment!
Save 40% on this award winning book with code UCPASA:
#ASA2023
We're honored to be publishing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book, "Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue," co-written with
@profamandatyler
.
#AALS2021
Pre-order now for 40% off:
It’s a pleasure to share the news that
@erichvanrijn
will serve as the Director of UC Press and
@KAR_UCPress
will serve as Deputy Director. We're happy to have these two at the helm!
Join us this Thursday, 4/15, 3PM PDT: Celebrating the life & work of
#RBG
and the legacy of Justice Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to the achievement of "a more perfect Union."
@profamandatyler
in conversation w/
@soledadobrien
@cwclub
Hello
#AHA19
! Come by UC Press booth 316 to learn more about Joe Trotter's new book: "Workers on Arrival" — recognizing 400 years of black labor in the making of America.
#twitterstorians
An incredibly timely and important book, Jennifer Holland (
@profjennholland
) and her book “Tiny You” go through the Western history of the anti-abortion movement.
Drop by booth 611 at
#AHA23
to get more info.
We're excited to share that Brandon Robinson (
@DrKittyGirl
) has been awarded honorable mention, ASA Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award for COMING OUT TO THE STREETS! Congrats, Brandon! 🎉
#ASA2021
@ASAnews
We're thrilled to announce that
@MacabeKeliher
, author of "The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China," has been awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize honorable mention!
@AASAsianStudies
#AAS2021
UC Press, in conjunction with the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, is pleased to announce the new journal National Review of Black Politics, coming in January 2020!
@NCOBPSTweets
👏🏽👏🏽 Congratulations are in order for Professor of History and African American Studies at
@UCLA
@klytlehernandez
, author of “Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” (published by UC Press in ‘10), one of this year’s
#MacFellow
“genius” grant recipients. Kudos Kelly!
#MacFellow
@klytlehernandez
is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins, ideology, and evolution of incarceration and immigrant detention practices in America. ⚖📖
"Just listen to food heroine
@marionnestle
, who says, 'Children are the future of our country...That is why I will never understand how anyone could oppose universal school meals and the strongest nutrition standards possible.'"
@forbes
A follow-up to the stellar profile on
#RuthWilsonGilmore
in yesterday's
@NYTmag
, please read this excerpt from her book, "Golden Gulag" to understand more of her thinking on
#PrisonAbolition
:
"Living history” museums like Colonial Williamsburg & Plimoth Plantation teach us about life in the past, but historian Malgorzata J. Rymsza-Pawlowska writes in
@NCPH
's
#TPHJournal
that these spots are also tied to more recent history. via
@JSTOR_Daily
Thank you
@Dawn_M_Dow
for stopping by our booth!
#ASA19
, come check out "Mothering While Black," which sheds light on the boundaries and burdens of African American middle-class mothers.
#AMSMT20
Check out our new series - "Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination." Series editors
@ShanaRedmond
and Tsitsi Jaji are looking for new proposals!
#BlackMusic
Learn how to submit:
Join us this Thursday, 4/15, 3PM PDT: Celebrating the life & work of
#RBG
and the legacy of Justice Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to the achievement of "a more perfect Union."
@profamandatyler
in conversation w/
@soledadobrien
@cwclub
Check out our interview with multiple
#WHA2021
award-winning author, Jennifer Holland!
Her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, helps us understand the roots of the pro-life movement, which are still relevant today.