“It’s important to think of the Bible as an anthology of ancient Jewish communities as opposed to a singular voice,” says the director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
“Boundless Winds of Empire” earned the Hong Yung Lee Book Award from the UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies.
“Wildlife Crossings of Hope” examines what happens when highways and other urban infrastructure confine animals to small patches of land.
The book casts the life of Empress Dowager Ling amid a story of the reinvention of religious, ethnic and gender norms in a rapidly changing society.
In his new book, Todd Presner argues that computational and data-driven methods can be key in preserving and analyzing survivors’ stories.
Lima, who earned a master’s degree in 2008, still sometimes laughs when she says the title of her new book aloud.
The professor of English and of African American studies said the book highlights the shift taking place within Black studies and the need for further research.
Her new anthology, “Regaining Unconsciousness,” to be published in 2025, will surely be one of poetry’s most talked-about books of the year
In his new book, the UCLA professor investigates how a generation of women artists is invigorating photography in the age of digitization by returning to earlier, incomplete or unrealized moments.
In his first book, Cesar Favila book takes an imaginative approach to recounting the lives of nuns who sang devotional music in Catholic churches in 17th- and 18th-century Mexico and Latin America. Favila, an assistant professor of musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is a faculty affiliate of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, and the LGBTQ Studies Program in the UCLA Division of Humanities. “Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain,” published in November by Oxford University Press, examines rarely studied printed and manuscript sources…