UC Press News

09

May

Climate-Smart Intervention Takes Top 2023 Case Studies in the Environment Prize

The winning case study from the 2023 competition, “Building Resilience in Jamaica’s Farming Communities: Insights From a Climate-Smart Intervention,” from The University of the West Indies’ Donovan Campbell and Shaneica Lester, demonstrates that while climate change poses immense threats to the environment and to human livelihoods, adaptation also provides opportunities to strengthen a community.

01

May

A Tribute to Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press. His life’s work affirmed poetry’s …

02

Apr

Editor Spotlight: meet our Environmental Studies and Geography Editor, Naja Pulliam Collins

As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Associate Editor Naja Pulliam Collins to talk about her role as the new Environmental Studies and Geography Editor, what kinds …

30

Nov

Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture Announces New Co-Editors-in-Chief

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 …

14

Nov

Announcing the 2023 Atelier Series Cohort

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 …

10

Nov

Animal History is now open for submissions

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

19

Jul

Announcing New Leadership at the University of California Press

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

11

May

Introducing the Music Subject Collection

UC Press is pleased to offer our complete list of music journals packaged together as a collection. The “Music Subject Collection” includes: Journal of the American Musicological SocietyJournal of MusicologyMusic Perception19th-Century MusicJournal …

04

May

Study detailing limits of carbon dioxide removal takes top honors in 2022 Case Studies in the Environment Prize Competition

Their analysis forces students to challenge the idea that the energy transition currently taking place will be painless, and instead asks them to master the tools necessary to face our environmental problems.

17

Apr

Ask Our Staff: What does a Book Designer do?

Wondering how a book cover comes to be? In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Book Designer Kevin Barrett Kane about how he …