September 3, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 3, 2024 Austin, Texas—The University of Texas Press is delighted to announce that Hanif Abdurraqib has joined us as a series editor for the American Music… READ MORE
September 10, 2024
This annotated playlist, created by author and musician Franz Nicolay, dissects some songs that make appearances in his new book Band People, which looks at the lives of musicians who… READ MORE
August 1, 2024
By Jo Scott-Coe For the 58th anniversary of the 1966 UT Tower Shooting August 1 will mark fifty-eight years since a mass shooting at UT Austin left fourteen people dead… READ MORE
July 3, 2024
Edited by Charlotte Canning, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Michael Sy Uy, & Sarah Wilbur Acquiring Editor Sarah McGavick Arts in Context: Critical Performance Infrastructures seeks to make visible and to expand scholarship on… READ MORE
June 10, 2024
Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. New in our World… READ MORE
May 20, 2024
Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed “war on poverty” shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest… READ MORE
May 7, 2024
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted… READ MORE
April 29, 2024
At the Texas-Mexico border in the 1910s and 1920s, William Hanson was a witness to, and an active agent of, history. As a Texas Ranger captain and then a top… READ MORE
April 22, 2024
Rick Perry, the charming rancher, pilot, and politician from West Texas who was governor from 2000 to 2015, is one of the most important but polarizing figures in the state’s… READ MORE
April 15, 2024
In 1904, prospectors discovered oil in the rural parishes of North Louisiana just outside Shreveport. As rural cotton fields gave way to dense, industrial centers of energy extraction, migrants from… READ MORE
