UT Press Staff Holiday Shelf Talkers
December 1, 2023
The holiday season is quickly approaching and, as always, there’s lots of preparation to be done. To assist your festive fatigue and help you with your decision making, the staff… READ MORE
News
Q&A with The Entablo Manuscript author Sarah Bennison on khipu boards, water governance, and pre-colonial ritual
December 4, 2023
In the dry season in the Andes, water from springs, lakes, reservoirs and melting glaciers feeds irrigation canals that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Managing and maintaining these… READ MORE
First Books in Our Visualidades Series
November 28, 2023
A New Series in Latin American Visual History The University of Texas Press is pleased to share the first books in our new series Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual… READ MORE
Q&A with Breaking the Gender Code author Georgina Hickey on Public Spaces, Women, and Advocacy
November 22, 2023
From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle—and not so subtle—messages that they shouldn’t be in public. Or, if they were, that they were not safe. Georgina… READ MORE
Announcing Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley’s book Quantum Justice
November 7, 2023
This week, we’re celebrating the publication of Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley’s book Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry. Grounded in her experience of “putting a mic… READ MORE
UT Press Authors at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
October 24, 2023
During the weekend of November 11, the University of Texas Press and several of our authors will be in and around the State Capitol in downtown Austin for the annual Texas… READ MORE
Francesca Royster wins the 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award!
October 23, 2023
UT Press is pleased to announce that Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions by Francesca Royster has been awarded 1st Place for the 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award,… READ MORE
Q&A with Jason Ruiz on Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs
October 20, 2023
If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is Latinx people. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States, and the… READ MORE
Read an excerpt from Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
October 18, 2023
We’re thrilled that Lynnée Denise’s book Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters has been featured by some incredible outlets as a recommended read! The Millions included it on their “Most Anticipated:… READ MORE
Q&A with Amelia Fiske on the Toxic Relations of Oil Extraction in Amazonia
October 17, 2023
Reckoning with Harm is a striking ethnographic analysis of the harm resulting from oil extraction. Covering fifty years of settler colonization and industrial transformation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Amelia Fiske interrogates… READ MORE
