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Pandemic History Article Published in California History Wins WAWH Prize
May 07 2021
We're pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North's article, "California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic," published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of Women Historians' (WAWH) Judith Lee Ridge prize for the best history article publ
Asia in 2020: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the U.S.-China Trade War
Mar 23 2021
We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with
Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?
Oct 29 2020
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh 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 investigates
How the coronavirus crisis magnifies existing challenges to abortion access
Jun 01 2020
By Carole Joffe, author of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in AmericaI was recently asked to write a blog piece on abortion care during the pandemic for the website of the Women’s Media Center. The WMC was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem a
Announcing Advances in Global Health
Apr 24 2020
Advances in Global Health is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and the UC Global Health Institute, which seeks to take a new approach to publishing research in the field of global health by aligning the journal with several of the United Nations Sustainable Deve
Call for Papers: COVID-19 and the Anthropocene
Apr 09 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic has already affected most of the planet in innumerable ways. Beyond its devastating human health toll, we are witnessing atmospheric, resource use, ecological, cultural, economic, and political consequences materializing in many places and at a scale that is unprecede
Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Terrorism, Pandemics, and Disasters
Mar 25 2020
With communities, states, and nations taking action to defend themselves from the most dangerous fast-moving pandemic in a century, we are reminded of the government's role in public health emergency preparedness and response. In this excerpt from Lawrence O. Gostin and Lindsay F. Wiley's Public Hea
Free access to all UC Press journals through June 2020
Mar 19 2020
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.
You Got This: Coping with Coronavirus Anxiety
Mar 19 2020
by Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming PlanetIt’s been a week of total chaos. As the chair of the environmental studies department at Humboldt State, I’ve been stressed about assuaging students’ worries about disrupted classes, whet
At the Intersection of Public Health and Xenophobia
Mar 17 2020
As the public health crisis wrought by COVID-19 continues to upend the everyday life of communities, families, and individuals throughout the globe, not all of the challenges that lie before us are as novel as the coronavirus.As two UC Press authors specializing in race in America explain, there