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Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors
Aug 02 2024
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
Making the Most of Your Art Program
Jul 02 2024
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
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
The Very, Very Basics of Fair Use in Scholarly Publishing
Jun 05 2024
Copyright and fair use are not subjects that rivet a lot of people, but it’s necessary that an author planning to publish their work understands the fundamentals of both.
Demystifying the Dissertation-to-Book Process with Michelle Lipinski
Apr 29 2024
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
Ask Our Staff: Editorial Assistant Roundtable Series – Permissions
Feb 28 2024
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
Ask Our Staff: What does a Production Editor do?
Jan 12 2024
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.
Ask Our Staff: How to Work with an Editorial Assistant
Dec 13 2023
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
Q&A with C. Luke Soucy, Translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Dec 11 2023
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and
Announcing the 2023 Atelier Series Cohort
Nov 14 2023
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