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View the UC Press 2024 Annual ReportFrom Our New Executive DirectorAs the relatively new executive director of the University of California Press, I am delighted to share this annual report with you. The report highlights some of the Press’s accomplishments during the 2023–24 fiscal year, as well as...

By Derek Hyra, author of Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings OccurApril 29, 1992: I am in Harlem, preparing for my AAU basketball team practice in Riverside Church’s basement. As I am warming up, my coach suggests I leave immediately. He had heard unrest was likely to erupt on 125th Str...

UC Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a quarterly, online journal from the editorial team of historians Thomas Aiello (Valdosta State University), Susan Nance (University of Guelph), and Daniel Vandersommers (University of Dayton). Animal History w...

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our July 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Ori Burton 25th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize, Finalist Melbern G...

By Hatim Rahman, author of Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers It was barely a decade ago that many of us became enamored by the “gig” economy. Booking a room, ride, or restaurant took seconds and could be done at virtually any time or place. A major factor ena...

By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America I never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved ...

As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives headfirst into the everyday lives of workers in the cra...

The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of surv...

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...

The annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) is being held from July 31-August 2, 2024, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. In light of the conference’s location, the editors of the PCB-AHA’s official journal, the P...