We’re proud to see UC Press books recognized across these best-of lists! From pandemic response and climate history to teaching, art, and the politics of equity. Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good.

In May 1949, Berlin became an enormous set for a film about the Berlin Airlift. We talk to Joseph Pearson, whose book, excerpted in @filmquarterly.bsky.social, includes a look at "The Big Lift," starring Montgomery Clift, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...

Check out the new issue of "HSNS." online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

Candace Moore considers recent television scenes that deliver intermittent jolts of queerness—hits of pleasure between the archive and the explorative viewer—to define a method that acknowledges fluctuating degrees of interest when historicizing queer television Open access! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Free year-end reads from FQ's new issue! Ramzi Fawaz on Andor Andor interview with Janus Metz by Gerald Sim Maggie Hennefeld on Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna Joseph Pearson on The Big Lift at 75 J. M. Tyree's Editor's Notebook @ucpress.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2

Thanks, @dwhdaily.bsky.social! "In the new Film Quarterly, @hennefem.bsky.social looks back on Il Cinema Ritrovato, Ramzi Fawaz writes about the politics of the Star Wars series Andor & Joseph Pearson tells the story behind The Big Lift, starring Montgomery Clift." www.criterion.com/current/post...

Over the past decade, historians of Late Antiquity are increasingly turning to an unexpected partner: the natural sciences. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/l...

The December 2025 issue of "Afterimage" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/i...

Available online now: the new issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society"

@sah1365.bsky.social commemorates Frank Gehry's passing with a round-up of tributes to the architect. sah.org/2025/12/10/o...

Call for Editors: University of California Press invites applications for the editorial leadership of "The Journal of Musicology." online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

"Journal of the American Musicological Society" article explores how the musical strategies used by Hollywood's Poverty Row studios in serial and other very low-budget productions are similar to the ways that modern action composers write today. news.ku.edu/news/article...

For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!

Thanks for the shout-out to @iaspm-us.bsky.social's "Journal of Popular Music Studies." latinamericanpost.com/life/enterta...

The December 2025 issue of "Film Quarterly" includes a dossier exploring franchises; articles on "Andor" & "Sinners," representing FQ’s contributions to year-end discourse on these two breakthrough productions; & much more. online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2

The December 2025 issue of JSAH is available now! SAH members can access the full-color online journal through the SAH website: sah.org/publications...

The new Winter 2025 issue of "Resonance" includes original research articles + new contributions to the special series 'Listening to Harry Shearer’s Le Show' & 'Sound History is Cultural History.' online.ucpress.edu/res/issue/6/4

The December 2025 issue of "Music Perception" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/mp/issue/43/2

On #GivingTuesday UC Press reaffirms its commitment to stand strong as an independent publisher amid federal attacks on academic institutions. If our work has supported your teaching or research, please consider donating to the UC Press Foundation: form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/univers...

JSTOR's reading list presenting some of the main debates in public space scholarship includes articles by @sah1365.bsky.social's "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" and others. daily.jstor.org/perspectives...

"Cemeteries and burial grounds are not only about the people interred there, but also, like the rituals following someone’s death, they are just as much for the living as for the deceased." — #TPHJournal special issue, 'Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites' online.ucpress.edu/tph/issue/47/4

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Have you read the latest issue of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" yet? It's available online now. online.ucpress.edu/msem/issue/4...

'Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity,' a new special issue of "Studies in Late Antiquity," edited by Timothy P. Newfield & Kristina Sessa, is available online. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4

Through an examination of the Muslim call to prayer opening Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" (1991), Pardis Dabashi's article examines certainty and doubt generated by the speculative turn in Black feminist film and media historiography. Open access today: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Thank you to @mesa1966.bsky.social and all #MESA2025 attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC! Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m... See you all for #MESA2026!

Curious about how A.I. has really changed the classroom? Read this original piece in @nytimes.com by Professor Carlo Rotella, author of WHAT CAN WE GET OUT OF THIS? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

It's the last day of #MESA2025 and we're only here for the morning! Stop by before noon for your last chance to check out our latest Middle East Studies books. Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...

Half day for our final day at #AARSBL2025! Last chance to drop by to see our latest books on Religion before we head out of here for the holidays! As always, our AAR website will remain up for a few weeks so you can still save 40% as we head into the holiday season: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

Big congratulations to Simine Vazire @simine.com, 2025 individual winner of the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award for her work championing methodological reform in psychological science award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...

"FREQUENCIES OF DECEIT is not simply a history of radio. It is a history of how states tried to speak entire worlds into being—and of what happened when those words failed." Author Margaret Peacock on her new book and how propaganda shaped the Middle East: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/w... #MESA2025

"Your writing is your response to what you are consuming, and ideas can come from unexpected places." THINGS UNSEEN author Ellen Muehlberger dispense valuable advice when crafting your book in our latest #AARSBL2025 author post:

Thanks to Ariel Dorfman and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for the great review of CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS by John Dinges: "Dinges confirms in these hundreds of pages what has made him such a superb investigative journalist": lareviewofbooks.org/article/chil...

Thanks to @thelancet.com for the great review of Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity: "Berkley’s narrative is both illuminating about this history and serves as a wake-up call": www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thanks to @economist.com for including Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity in their "Best Books of 2025" feature! www.economist.com/culture/2025...

Good morning, #MESA2025 attendees! It's our only full day of exhibiting so you've got all morning and afternoon to drop by and see our latest Middle East Studies books and chat with one of our editors. Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...

Another full day in the exhibit hall, #AARSBL2025 attendees! If you haven't already gotten your headstart on beating the holiday travel rush, drop by and check out our Religion books! Or if you're already making your way home, our website is up for you save 40%:

Let's kick off #MESA2025 in the most traditional way: sharing the recipe for an Egyptian lentil soup! NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:

And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies! And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...

We're grateful to our authors for providing us with original content to share for this year's #AARSBL2025 Read an excerpt from Christine Shepardson's A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE and her commentary on the wide questions of religion and violence:

Morning, #AARSBL2025 attendees! We're here all morning and afternoon so drop by and check out our latest books on Religion. If you can't make it, our AAR website has all of displayed books on sales for 40% off: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

Thank you to the @americananthro.bsky.social and #AAA2025NOLA attendees for a wonderful conference. As mentioned out AAA website will remain open for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest Anthro books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a... See you next year in St. Louis!

"Birth is like some kind of open secret, a fact of life, a miracle, a trauma, both too precious and too abject to confront frankly." NEAR BIRTH author Andrea Ford on the role of doulas in childbirth: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h... #AAA2025NOLA

Thank you to the American Studies Association and all #ASA2025 attendees! Our website will remain up for several weeks so you can still save 40% off our latest American Studies books. See you next year in Chicago for #ASA2026!

Already our last day in The Big Easy at #AAA2025NOLA! Drop by before 2PM to check out our latest Anthro books. Our AAA website will remain open for a few weeks for you to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

Hello @aarweb.bsky.social and #AARSBL2025 attendees! With Thanksgiving a few days away, we're very thankful to be in Boston for this year's annual conference. Drop by our booth to see the latest Religion books and visit our website to save 40% on all display books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

Our last day at #ASA2025 and it's a short one! We're here until 11AM so drop by now before we pack up for the year! If you're already on your way out or just enjoying the beautiful city of San Juan, visit our website to save 40% off our titles on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

"When a corporation donates bottled water, who drained the river in the first place?" Amy Elizabeth Stambach, author of THE CORPORATE ALIBI, asks you to consider this question and more in her #AAA2025NOLA post:

The new December 2025 issue of "Nineteenth_Century Literature" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/ncl/issue/80...

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