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Ask Our Staff: How to Work with an Editorial Assistant

As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do …

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Ask Our Staff: What does a Production Editor do?

In this video, Stephanie Summerhays, senior production editor and FirstGen Program Committee member, discusses the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people...

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Ask Our Staff: Editorial Assistant Roundtable Series – Permissions

Watch Parts 1 and 2 of our EA Roundtable. As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new …

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Q&A with Yvette Martínez-Vu & Miroslava Chávez-García

Is Grad School for Me? is a calling card and a corrective to the lack of clear guidance for historically excluded students navigating the onerous undertaking of graduate school—starting with asking if...

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Demystifying the Dissertation-to-Book Process with Michelle Lipinski

On March 8, 2024, the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group welcomed University of California Press Senior Editor, Michelle Lipinski, for the online event Demystifying Dissertation-to-Book.  This...

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It’s the UC Press 40% Sale! Now until Friday

Save 40% with promo code MAY40 at checkout. For US & Canada orders. Not applicable for pre-orders publishing beyond 30 days. Sale excludes ebooks and journals.

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Question for the College #ClassOf2024: Is Grad School for You?

Some helpful tips for prospective graduate students.

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The Very, Very Basics of Fair Use in Scholarly Publishing

Copyright and fair use are not subjects that rivet a lot of people, but it’s necessary that an author planning to publish their work understands the fundamentals of both.

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Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the...

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Making the Most of Your Art Program

By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC Press Whoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes …

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Q&A with Ryo Morimoto, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar

In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well …

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