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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
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
Editor Spotlight: meet our Environmental Studies and Geography Editor, Naja Pulliam Collins
Apr 02 2024
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Associate Editor Naja Pulliam Collins to talk about her role as the new Environmental Studies and Geography Editor, what kinds of projects she’s looking for, and how authors can connect.How did you become an editor at UC
Q&A with Alberto Garcia: First-gen Scholar and Accomplished UC Press Author
Jun 22 2023
Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University. Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Us
Ask Our Staff: What does a Book Designer do?
Apr 17 2023
Wondering how a book cover comes to be? In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Book Designer Kevin Barrett Kane about how he approaches book design and how authors can be partners in the process. Kevin Barrett Kane is an award
Q&A with Diana W. Anselmo, author of A Queer Way of Feeling
Apr 11 2023
Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intim
Q&A with Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, author of The Tropical Turn
Mar 28 2023
The Tropical Turn chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels t
Behind the Scenes: Book Publishing 101 – Resources for First-Gen Authors
May 14 2022
As part of our FirstGen Program, we're working to make the publishing process more transparent by sharing resources for authors on what to expect. Whether you're a first-gen grad student hoping to publish in the future, or a faculty member currently working on a manuscript, we've compiled a list of