Established in 1950, the University of Texas Press produces approximately one hundred new books each year and has over 3000 books in print. Their areas of scholarly concentration include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, classics, film and media studies, food studies and cookbooks, history, Jewish studies, Latin American and pre-Columbian studies, Latinx studies, Middle Eastern studies, music, nature and environment, photography, and Texas and the Southwest. In addition, UT Press publishes books of general interest for a wider audience on a variety of subjects, including history, current affairs, the visual arts, music, and food, among others, as well as books on the history, culture, arts, and natural history of Texas.
Ancient Maya Teeth
Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica
A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.
- Publication year: 2024
France and Algeria
A History of Decolonization and Transformation
An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence.
- Publication year: 2024
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
- Publication year: 2021
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal
10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications.
- Publication year: 2024
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.
- Publication year: 2024
Paid to Care
Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture
An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences.
- Publication year: 2023
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
A Body of One's Own
A Trans History of Argentina
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands
Voices in Aerosol
Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico
Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.
- Publication year: 2023