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 histo...
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 ...
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...
By Carole Joffe, author of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America
I 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 Glori...
UC Press and UC Global Health Institute Announce Partnership to Launch Advances in Global Health
Advances in Global Health Editor-in-Chief Dr. Craig R. Cohen
University of California Press is delighted to announce a partnership with the UC Global Health Institute to develop a new tr...
Dibujo en carboncillo de un coronavirus (charcoal drawing of a coronavirus). Image credit: Soledad Miranda-Rottmann, Wikimedia Commons
The global coronavirus pandemic has already affected most of the planet in innumerable ways. Beyond its devastating human health toll, we are witnessin...
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...
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.
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by Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
It’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 cl...
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 exp...