What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her exp...
Upcoming books exploring Black history
Throughout the month of February, UC Press will highlight books we have had the privilege to publish. Books featured raise Black voices, highlight the works of Black artists, bring forth the history, and speak about the issues facing the black com...
On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean established theories of colonialism and racism as structures tha...
Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and the author of several books, including Traumatic Imprints and Nollywood Stars. He is also a first-generation scholar.Cinematic Indepen...
University of California Press is pleased to announce that the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) has named Global Perspectives Best New Journal for 2021.
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association, is an organizatio...
J. Paul Goode is McMillan Chair in Russian Studies and Associate Professor in Carleton University’s Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of UC Press’s journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies. We recently checked in with Professor Goode on the publi...
April 7th marks the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide. The day remembers the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. In honor of this date, we are sharing a post by Donald Miller, author of Becoming Human Again: An Oral History of the Rwanda Genocide aga...
Natchee Barnd is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar and Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies program at Oregon State University, the author of Native Space: Indigenous Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism, and new Editor of UC Press’s journal Ethnic Studies Revie...
Anirudh Krishna
Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research in...