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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,
these books reflect the kind of publishing we believe in:
books that challenge assumptions,
recover overlooked lives,
and bring complex ideas into public conversation.
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good

The Best UC Press Books of 2025
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good.

The Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you again for your amazing support for our fundraiser to fund @…’s private scholarship at the University of Milan and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
Thanks to you, we were able to raise over $15,000 in under 24 hours and meet our goal.
Joy can’t thank you herself at the moment as her family has mov…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
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The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Feeling the Dad energy here. Pretty darn cool!
"Facing the possibility of winning the World Series, Steve says the title was never even on his radar when Davis was growing up. He just wanted his son to earn a college scholarship. Then, when Davis got drafted, Steve focused on him getting called up some day.
"He's just beaten all the odds every place he's stopped, so, this is just another stop along the way. And if this happens, it's just going to be incredible," he said.
"It's just unreal. I still just can't believe it's happening.””
#Dad #Baseball #BlueJays #MLB #Dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/davis-schneider-home-run-dad-9.6959789

House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday broadcasting long-standing conservative allegations of a left-wing bias in the small, prestigious Truman Scholarship program.
Witnesses called by the GOP said the winners disproportionately espouse causes such as promoting racial justice and fighting climate change
—and wind up working for Democrats and left-leaning organizations
—while few recipients profess interest in conservative aims.
But rather than counter the allegations…

House Republicans Accuse Truman Scholarship of Liberal Bias
Republicans held a hearing airing accusations that the prestigious program heavily favors left-leaning candidates. No one from the scholarship foundation was invited.

McVea, Super Bowl champ with Chiefs, dies at 79 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46654366/warren-mcvea-super-bowl-champion-chiefs-dies-79

Orban "attended Oxford University on a scholarship funded by George Soros"
Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ in Hungary Is Starting to Show Cracks - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/V0O94

It's good to see an academic journal publishing serious scholarship: "many controversies around this dramatic episode cannot be resolved until a more objective and quantitative analysis is carried out."
Remember kids, numbers are transparent and self-evident in a way that words can never be. Thanks be to economics.

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion https://churchhistory.org/call-for-participation-help-acls-understand-public-scholarship-on-religion/

On 19 November, Christopher Ohge (IES) will deliver a talk on his new project, The Bow in the Cloud: A Digital Edition and Network Analysis of Antislavery Literature, at LETS: Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group. This hybrid even starts at 4.15pm in Brockington Building (B1.11) on the Loughborough University campus and on Teams. DM for online link.

The application period for the EMJM- #EMLex Master Programme (European Master in Lexicography) is now open.
Interested candidates can submit their applications via the following link:
https://emlex.eu.usc.gal/web/application
Applications for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship are open until February 2, 2026 (inclusive).

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
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The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
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Lawsuit Against Hispanic Scholarship Fund Argues It Discriminates Against Non-Hispanic Students - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/MUGaL

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
https://ift.tt/x3fjbIW
The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
https://ift.tt/OcBlVn0
The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
https://ift.tt/vEQMeTw
The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
via Input 4 RELCFP