The following is an excerpt from the article of the same name, by Alison Ledgerwood et al., which was recently published in UC Press’s open-access journal Collabra: Psychology.
In the face of longstanding and entrenched patterns of global and racial exclusion in psychology and acad...
As college grads across the country are receiving their diplomas, there remains very real questions about pursuing advanced degrees in their future.
Yvette Martínez-Vu and Miroslava Chávez-García’s latest book, Is Grad School for Me?, is the first guidebook of its kind to provide gr...
Is Grad School for Me? is a calling card and a corrective to the lack of clear guidance for historically excluded students navigating the onerous undertaking of graduate school—starting with asking if grad school is even a good fit. This essential resource offers step-by-step instructi...
Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, “Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study,” was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield’s...
Michaela Soyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a first-generation scholar. Her current work focuses on delinquency, incarceration, recidivism and social theory. She has also conducted research about resistance in oppressive regimes. Her books include A Drea...
It’s graduation season again, and whether the graduate in your life is leaving college or onto their professional degree, they’ll have many new responsibilities and challenges to navigate. We’ve rounded up some of UC Press’s bestsellers to help them transition int...
University of California Press is seeking a new editor for its journal, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. This quarterly, peer-reviewed publication has been serving the field of qualitative research and communication studies since 2012. This position will succeed Devika Chawla ...
Amanda McMillan Lequieu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this post, Professor McMillan Lequieu explains how she used case studies to anchor a keystone course in her department.
I designed my Sociology of the Environment cours...
Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evid...
Daniel Mallinson is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg, and author for UC Press’s journal Case Studies in the Environment (you can read his authored and co-authored–with students!–CSE articles here, here and ...