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01/30/2025

January 30 is Fred Korematsu Day—a chance to honor a civil rights activist whose legacy is as relevant as ever.

Fred T. Korematsu, born on this day in 1919, was best known for resisting Japanese American incarceration during World War II. His refusal to comply led to his arrest and conviction on federal charges. Though he was eventually exonerated, Korematsu continued to fight tirelessly against human rights abuses. He is pictured here with fellow civil rights hero Rosa Parks (photo courtesy the Fred T. Korematsu Institute.)

Read more about Korematsu's legacy in an excerpt from ENDURING CONVICTION by Lorraine K. Bannai on our blog: https://ow.ly/JoEb50UOgF1

01/29/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Kimberly Jensen and all the authors recognized by the 2025 from Literary Arts! "Oregon's Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century" is a Finalist for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction.

Literary Arts is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. The winners of each category will be announced live at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony,

01/22/2025

If you missed the first major retrospective exhibition of the diverse work of Joe Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) at The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, you won't want to miss the accompanying publication.

Spanning a four-decade career, JOE FEDDERSEN: EARTH, WATER, SKY collects the artist's prints, weaving, glass, and ceramics. Essays exploring an Indigenous perspective on landscape and how Plateau-Native cosmological viewpoints manifest in Feddersen's work, a selection of poetry by authors from Feddersen's past collaborations, and a biography highlighting interviews from his friends, family, and students are also included in this generous publication edited by heather ahtone and Rachel Allen.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/joAs50UKC3y

01/15/2025

The inaugural release in our new Critical Filipinx Studies series, CARING FOR CAREGIVERS is a transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices.

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling US health-care system.

Drawing on surveys, individual interviews, and caregivers' stories as told through kuwentuhan, a Philippine cultural practice of collective storytelling, this book offers an intimate examination of intergenerational care work in the Filipino American community.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/8Uv850UGl5H

01/10/2025

Mark your calendar for the launch of the expanded new edition of SEATTLE WALKS! Author David B. Williams will be in conversation with Taha Ebrahimi, author of Street Trees of Seattle.

📅 Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7 pm at Elliott Bay Book Company

RSVP: https://ow.ly/ePEp50Uz3V4

01/08/2025

Baltimore: Join Dawn Day Biehler for the launch of her new book, ANIMATING CENTRAL PARK: A Multispecies History, at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, where she'll be in conversation with Rylee Wernoch of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

📅 Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 7:00 pm ET. RSVP at the link below!

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces.

01/07/2025

ICYMI: We’re hiring! UW Press is looking for a dynamic new editor to acquire high-quality trade books for our regional list.

This is an exciting opportunity to build on the press's successful trade program across a five-state area and to work with a highly experienced and collaborative publishing team. Based in Seattle, UW Press is part of a vibrant book culture, with independent bookstores, museums, libraries, cultural centers, and book supporters throughout the region.

Check out the full job listing at: bit.ly/UWPressJobs.

01/03/2025

This collection of scholarship on Ming dynasty China and adjacent periods and territories, published by the University of Washington Press, is openly available thanks to the generous support of the Geiss Hsu Foundation.

12/27/2024

Now available, NATIVE ALIENATION challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions through a groundbreaking reconsideration of California Indian history. Learn more: https://ow.ly/BtIQ50UsVPB

This is the newest release in our series, featuring innovative works that use decolonizing perspectives and transnational approaches to explore the experiences of Indigenous peoples across North America.

12/23/2024

We're honored to see John Okada's NO-NO BOY on Mother Jones's year-end list. Thanks to Ruth Murai for the moving recommendation.

Everyone deserves a break from the news.

12/20/2024

Read our Q&A with author Dawn Day Biehler on human and nonhuman animal encounters in one of the world's most iconic urban parks:

In Animating Central Park, Dawn Day Biehler examines the vibrant and intimately connected lives of humans and nonhuman animals in one of the world’s most iconic green spaces. We caught up with Bieh…

12/18/2024

Another beautifully produced publication from our friends at Cascadia Art Museum! B. L. Hyde represents a major rediscovery in the history of Northwest art.

This is the first book documenting the life and work of Hyde—once considered one of the more accomplished and progressive regional artists in the early to mid-20th century. Don't miss the exhibition at Cascadia Art Museum through February 2, 2025.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/rixn50UqmaG

12/17/2024

Newly released, ANIMATING CENTRAL PARK by Dawn Day Biehler illuminates the entangled multispecies histories of one of the world's most iconic urban green spaces. Learn more: https://ow.ly/QLy650UshSw

12/13/2024

📢 Job opening! UW Press seeks a Senior Acquisitions Editor to build upon and expand our publishing program in narrative nonfiction and illustrated books for regional and national audiences.

This program includes books that showcase the histories, cultures, and natural history of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho with the possibility of expanding the list with titles about Northern California and the Mountain West.

This position is based in Seattle, WA and requires presence in the UW Press office several days a week as well as select travel over weekends and attendance at publication events outside normal working hours.

Visit bit.ly/UWPressJobs to learn more and apply!

12/13/2024

Did you know that more oysters are sold between Thanksgiving and New Year's than at any other time of the year? Learn about the tale of two beloved bivalves—the native Olympia and the non-native Pacific—and the hardy growers who tend them in an excerpt from HEAVEN ON THE HALF SHELL in Humanities Washington Spark magazine.

From a vital food for Indigenous cultures to an economic engine, Washington’s history is inseparable from a tale of two oysters.

12/10/2024

Selected books, journal articles, reading lists, and commentary from AUPresses members and their expert authors in a wide range of fields

12/10/2024

We're thrilled to see this much-deserved profile of Cascadia Art Museum curator David F. Martin, a champion of underrecognized artists in the Pacific Northwest. UW Press proudly distributes many of Martin's publications, including the recent catalog of the unsung midcentury artist B. L. Hyde.

At Edmonds' Cascadia Art Museum, curator David Martin spotlights female artists whose legacies should be better-known. That's been a theme of his entire career.

12/06/2024

Check out some of our latest releases in environmental history garnering great reviews.

In CAPTURING GLACIERS, Dani Inkpen's "commendable love and fascination for these ethereal rivers of ice pervades her writing and interest in the topic" (Alpine Journal of The Alpine Club).

THE TOXIC SHIP is "an exceptional book about the history of a ship and the waste that it contained, a waste so extraordinary that it challenged the political order of Philadelphia, questioned the scientific authority of U.S. government agencies, and remade the global waste trade" (Technology and Culture).

"An eminently readable, elegantly precise treatise on the topic of batteries" (Science), CHARGED unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving 'the battery problem' is critical to a clean energy transition.