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...
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC Press
Whoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many ...
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 finis...
Watch Parts 1 and 2 of our EA Roundtable.
As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?
In this EA Roundtable...
In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Production Editor Stephanie Summerhays and FirstGen Program Committee member on the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people authors work wi...
As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?
In this EA Roundtable video series, our Asian and Latin American S...
We are pleased to introduce the incoming co-editors-in-chief for Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture who will assume their positions in January 2024 after the journal’s founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down.
Mariola Alvarez is a historian of ...
UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships. Animal History’s inaugural volume will publish in 2025, and the journal is now open for manuscript submissions.
Read our Call for...
“Behind the Scenes” series uncovers elements of book-making and publishing that make up our industry. Throughout the publishing process, authors may come across industry terms in their conversations with our staff as we work together.
Below are few common publishing terms and their def...
It’s a pleasure to share this announcement from Douglas Haynes, Vice Provost, Academic Personnel and Programs, and Katherine S. Newman, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of California, about new leadership at UC Press.
Erich van Rijn, Director and Ki...