Highlighted Projects

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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

• Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico by Marcia Cruz-Torres 

• Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Space in the Twentieth-Century United States by Georgina Hickey

• Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry by Crystal Leigh Endsley

• A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina by Patricio Simonetto

Film, Media, Comics, Music, Street Art and Popular Culture

• 21st Century Film Essentials: I'm Not There by Noah Tsika

• A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin by Greg Beets and Richard Whymark

• Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance by Justin Rawlins

• Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem by Justin Wyatt

• Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame by James Scorer

• Clicas: Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film Frank García

• Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System by Derek Long

Latin American Studies & Caribbean Studies

• Voices in Aerosol: Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement and Graffiti in Urban Mexico by Caitlin Frances Bruce

• Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture by Rachel Randall

• Portable Postsocialisms: Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History by Paloma Duong

• Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters by Myriam J. A. Chancy

• Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines by  Verónica Pérez-Rodríguez, Shanti Morell-Hart, and Stacie M. King

• Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of Afro-Latinidades by Regina Mills

• Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso by Tara Lopez

• The New Public Art: Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s by Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra

• Objects of Empire: The Ceramic Tradition of the Imperial Inca State by Tamara L. Bray

History and Politics

• A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut by Nadine Sinno

• Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism by Aria Fani

• Rick Perry: A Political Life by Brandon Rottinghaus

• Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

• France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation (2024 ed.) by Phillip Naylor

University of Texas Press Blog Content

Author Interviews:

• Rosalynn Vega Q&A: “Nested Ecologies” Author on Chronic Illness and Functional Medicine

• Author Q&A: David Hillis on Biodiversity in the Texas Hill Country

• Uncovering Dominican and Haitian Histories: A Q&A with Charlton W. Yingling, Author of Siblings of Soil

• Q&A with Kristy L. Ulibarri, Author of Visible Borders, Invisible Economies

• Borders and Healthcare: A Q&A with Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, author of Undocumented Motherhood

• Depicting Intra-Caribbean Migration: A Q&A with Marisel Moreno, author of Crossing Waters

• Researching Industrial Light & Magic: Q&A with Julie A. Turnock, author of Empire of Effects

• Water Sustainability and Architectural Design: Q&A with Brook Muller, author of Blue Architecture