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...
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...
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 ...
After the often many-year process of writing your book, submitting the proposal, revising and preparing the manuscript for production, and then working with the copyeditor, you’ll end up with the final, exciting result of all that hard work — the finished, published book!
Yet it’s impo...
By J. T. Way, author of Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala
As a scholar whose research applies directly as testimony in asylum cases, I am well-versed in why thousands of Guatemalans are fleeing for their lives. I explain many of these realities in my ne...