The new second edition of ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM IN FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY provides discussion and case studies of ethical best practices for the discipline of forensic anthropology.
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RETURN TO LAUNCH by Stephen C. Smith tells the story of how Cape Canaveral’s “second space age” reshaped the trajectory of the US space program and helped usher in a new era of spaceflight in the twenty-first century. #UFPress
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We are pleased to welcome a new #UFPress journal, Woolf Studies Annual.
Woolf Studies Annual invites articles on the work and life of Virginia Woolf and her milieu.
Read more about the journal here: journals.upress.ufl.edu/wsa/index
IMAGINING A NEW NATURAL HISTORY, edited by Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian, offers a fresh perspective on the Latin American Climate crisis and shows how writers, artists, and curators are rethinking approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities. #UFPress
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND THE NEW LEFT, edited by Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse, offers new insights into Cuba’s global influence by shifting the focus to show how everyday lives, family dynamics, and notions of gender and sexuality have impacted revolutionary transformation. #UFPress
PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION, edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez, explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production. #UFPress
CONTESTING THE CLIMATE UNTHINKABLE, edited by Azucena Castro, Gianfranco Selgas, and Ken Benson, examines Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophes. #UFPress
An important resource for anyone involved in managing waterfront property, LIVING SHORELINES FOR FLORIDA by Savanna Barry, Vincent Encomio, Marjorie Shropshire, and Ginny Stibolt, explains how to implement ecologically-informed shoreline protection in the state. #UFPress
QUEER GENEALOGIES IN DOMINICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE by Maja Horn examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present, tracing how same-sex desire and gender nonconformity have been negotiated both tacitly and overtly. #UFPress
FATHERS, MASCULINITY, AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA by Irina Dzero argues that contemporary filmmakers are using the figure of the father as a metaphor for political leadership and their work reflects a growing rejection of predatory and coercive authority in the region. #UFPress
MISSION is 14th NASA administrator and US Senator Bill Nelson’s account of his journey on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986, featuring Nelson’s early perspectives on the US space program and offering a window into a fascinating time in space history. #UFPress
Exploring the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba, MODERN ART IN 1940S CUBA by Alejandro Anreus provides the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the nation’s only democratic period. #UFPress
NATIVE PERSISTENCE AT A CALIFORNIA MISSION OUTPOST, edited by Jelmer W. Eerkens, Lee M. Panich, Christopher Canzonieri, and Christopher Zimmer, presents collaborative bioarchaeological research at the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area. #UFPress
CUBA’S COSMOPOLITAN ENCLAVES by Frances Peace Sullivan explores how northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the Oriente Province emerged as a focal point for global visions of resistance. #UFPress
THE ENVIRONMENT IN BRAZILIAN CULTURE, edited by Patricia Vieira, explores the centrality of the natural world in shaping Brazilian literature, cinema, and art from 1900 to the present, portraying the human connection to nature in the most biodiverse country in the world. #UFPress
SEX AND LOVE IN PORFIRIAN MEXICO CITY by Michael Matthews explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class in Mexico City during the rule of dictator Porfirio Díaz. #UFPress
CEMETERY PROTECTIONS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS by Ryan M. Seidemann illuminates the role of the law in the protection and preservation of urban cemetery spaces. #UFPress
THE MANN PHASE by Michael Strezewski provides a comprehensive overview of the Mann site in southwestern Indiana, which dates to 200-600 CE and is one of the most consequential but enigmatic archaeological sites of the #MiddleWoodland period. #UFPress
ALIVE IN THEIR GARDEN by Dedé Mirabal tells of the lives and legacy of the iconic Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story. #UFPress
In ROMAN BIOARCHAEOLOGY, edited by Elizabeth A. Bews and Kathryn E. Marklein, researchers use remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history. #UFPress
In AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF WOODLAND TRANSFORMATION, Jessica Jenkins provides a detailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in the Lower Suwannee region of Florida’s Gulf Coast, drawing on ceramic analysis techniques to explore a period of transformative change. #UFPress
PERIODICALS IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Maria Chiara D'Argenio and Claire Lindsay from #UFPress explores how Latin American print culture has influenced local movements and informed global exchange.
In BLACK FREEDOM AND EDUCATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba and influenced public school systems in the broader Americas. #UFPress
In SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists examine the ways in which #socialinequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in #AncientGreece. #UFPress
DIGITAL SATIRE IN LATIN AMERICA by Paul Alonso analyzes how digital-native audiovisual #satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within #LatinAmerica. #UFPress
What are Miami Book Fair authors reading? Lisandro Pérez (THE HOUSE ON G STREET, @nyupress.bsky.social) is reading the #UFPress book DEMOCRACY AND TIME IN CUBAN THOUGHT by María de los Ángeles Torres. "It is a provocative read, and elegantly written."
Thanks for the shout-out!
