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Epidemics, Quarantine, and Japanese American Incarceration: A Q&A with Jonathan van Harmelen Inspired by the COVID pandemic and his ongoing research on Japanese American history, historian Jonathan van Harmelen investigates the medical history of the Japanese American incarceration during Wor...

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic drawing to a close, there is still need for new scholarship on racism and the history of medicine. We talk with historian Jonathan van Harmelen about his @pcb-aha.bsky.social award-winning "Pacific Historical Review" article. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/e...

"The paper concludes by calling on agroecology practitioners to defy disciplinary boundaries and obedient knowledge, and develop new social norms and transformative visions for finance outside of capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy." online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...

If you're attending the @pcb-aha.bsky.social conference, please join us today at 1:15 for a panel on publishing with editors from "Pacific Historical Review," "California History," & @ucpress.bsky.social. We'll be in Casa Italiana 3.

UC Press is hiring a Journals Principal Production Coordinator to manage the full production lifecycle of our academic journals: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...

Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Mapping Lesbian History: Q&A with Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in...

Many of the places that loom largest in queer history—NYC’s Stonewall Inn, San Francisco’s Castro district—tend to focus on gay men & urban spaces. A fuller history is told by Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz.
@pcb-aha.bsky.social‬ www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...

Volume 49 Issue 1 | 19th-Century Music | University of California Press

"As musicology has become more conscious of the monumentalizing forces of canon formation in music historiography, object lessons can offer a 'punctuating' alternative." In its new issue, "19th-Century Music" publishes its first "Object Lesson." online.ucpress.edu/ncm/issue/49/1

Volume 42 Issue 3 | Journal of Musicology | University of California Press

Read articles on "Mozart and Metadata," Bernard Herrmann’s film scores, improvisatory practice within 18th c European church music, & the contributions of women to religious music in the new issue of the "Journal of Musicology." online.ucpress.edu/jm/issue/42/3

The 11.3 issue of FMH is live! 🤩🥳

This issue is devoted to the 30th anniversary of Lara Croft, with every article discussing the character and the Tomb Raider franchise!

You can read the editors' introduction, written by Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen, below:

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.

Thanks to @theatlantic.com for publishing this thoughtful piece by @petermshane.bsky.social,‬ author of DEMOCRACY'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE, on Chief Justice John Roberts and his impact on the Trump presidency: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We have a new CFP!

A special issue on Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media, guest edited by Jiří Anger & Veronika Hanáková.

The deadline for proposals is October 28, 2025.

Read the full CFP below:

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/cfp

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 by Andrea Horbinski In this expansive debut history, Horbinski, a submissions editor for Mechademia, upends conventional Western narratives about ma...

Thank you ‪@publisherswkly.bsky.social‬ for the review of MANGA’S FIRST CENTURY: “A vivid ode to the variety and depth of an enduringly popular art form”
www.publishersweekly.com/9780520403994

Other conclusions In 1972, the French-Greek film-maker Costa-Gavras was in Chile to shoot a movie based on a radical Uruguayan group’s real-life kidnapping and killing of a

Thanks to @thetls.bsky.social for the great review of CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS by John Dinges: "Reads like a riveting true-crimework . . . Remarkably well sourced and fair, CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS is a memorable work about a lamentable historical episode": www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84

"Sorrow can be a home to stand on so / And see far to: another earth, a place I might know"
—Fanny Howe, from SELECTED POEMS

Honoring Fanny Howe, a poet who brought clarity to mystery and grace to grief. We were privileged to publish her SELECTED POEMS and GONE. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

How to Rule an Ancient Empire Author Rhyne King talks about the making of the ancient Persian Empire.

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...

A short blog post for my book with @ucpress.bsky.social

New in Elementa: 20 years of seal-borne ocean sensor research in the Southern Ocean Having a diverse, resilient, and robust system of observations, with a complimentary suite of observing platforms–one of which has been the animal-borne ocean observations–has provided key observation...

The development of miniaturized instruments has allowed researchers to use animals - like these elephant seals - to collect information from otherwise inaccessible areas of our oceans www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/n...

Q&A with Venezia Michalsen, author of "Intersectional Feminist Criminology" Author Venezia Michalsen discusses her motivations for writing the book and the impact she hopes it will have on other Criminology students and scholars.

“You put together intersectional feminism with criminology, and you recognize that our criminal legal system hasn't looked at the role of women. I kept wanting to say, what about women?”
—Venezia Michalsen, author of INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY

Read the Q&A:

See new advance articles just posted from the journal "Music Perception." online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...

Opinion | Stop Building in Floodplains

Thanks to @nytimes.com for publishing this important op-ed by Tim Palmer, author of SEEK HIGHER GROUND: The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis, on the dangers of building in floodplains: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/o...

News: Recent UC Press Book Signings We're thrilled to announce a selection of our latest book signings!

We're excited to share a few of our latest book signings! Please help us share the news 🎉

Continuing to share stories from my book, Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing:

Early Black History in the Antelope Valley

While the Antelope Valley is commonly thought of as a white place, its history of Black residency dates to the late 19th century.

Volume 7 Issue 3 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press

The articles in the new July issue of "Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" (online now) all address what it means to be a "problem" as a ciswoman, trans*, and/or nonbinary person across the Americas, & to be Indigenous, a sex worker, or an immigrant. online.ucpress.edu/lalvc/issue/...

For your summer reading list — check out INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY by Venezia Michalsen, which advocates for a radical shift in how we teach and think about criminology.

www.ucpress.edu/books/inters...

Free article alert! 💞

In this essay, Ankita Deb examines how nontheatrical films on sex education from Europe and North America were recirculated by B-circuit filmmakers in India and, in so doing, suffused with feminist and queer possibilities.

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

‘Chile in Their Hearts’ Review: The Perils of Activism U.S. agents have long been accused of complicity in the murder of two Americans in Chile. A two-decade investigation suggests the claim is false.

Thanks to @wsj.com for the great review of CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS by John Dinges: "[Dinges's] conclusions are triumphs for intellectual honesty":

UC Press June Award Winners UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our June 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

We're thrilled to announce our latest award-winning authors in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology and more. Please help us celebrate by sharing the news! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...

Genocide in Perspective Gaza Catastrophe The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective By Gilbert Achcar University of California Press, August 2025, 240 pages, $22.95 paperback. “IN WHAT SENSE is Israel’s geno…

GENOCIDE IN PERSPECTIVE
A review of Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by David Finkel @atc_mag
againstthecurrent.org/atc237/genoc...
Excerpt:
It must be said that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone. [cont'd]

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2025 Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

It's our last day at #SHAFR2025! Drop by before 5PM for one last chance to check out our latest History books.

Our SHAFR website and your ability to save 40% on all books on display will remain open for a few weeks:

For #SHAFR2025, we're pleased to have original content for our UC Press blog that features our authors in conversation as well as deeper dives into their books.

Check them out here: tinyurl.com/yc4adwtc

Morning, #SHAFR2025 attendees! In addition to dropping by our booth to check out our History program, one of our acquisitions editors will be on hand to answer any questions about the UC Press program. Come by and say "hi!"

A reminder that our SHAFR website is live: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...