Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.
In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.
The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.
The Archaeology of Wak'as
Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes
- Copyright year: 2014
Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos
Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time
- Copyright year: 2019
La Consentida
Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community
- Copyright year: 2019
Best Backpacking Trips in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
- Copyright year: 2019
Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica
- Copyright year: 2019
Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life
- Copyright year: 2018
Governors and the Progressive Movement
- Copyright year: 2019
Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies
- Copyright year: 2019
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
- Copyright year: 2015
Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest
New Perspectives and Case Studies
- Copyright year: 2019
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
- Copyright year: 2010
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
- Copyright year: 2019
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period
- Copyright year: 2018
Yellowstone Cougars
Ecology before and during Wolf Restoration
- Copyright year: 2018
Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language
- Copyright year: 2019
Return to Ixil
Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town
- Copyright year: 2019
Patron Gods and Patron Lords
The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults
- Copyright year: 2016
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
- Copyright year: 2012
Thanks for Watching
An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube
- Copyright year: 2019
Objects of Survivance
A Material History of the American Indian School Experience
- Copyright year: 2019
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica
Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches
- Copyright year: 2019
Magnifier
- Copyright year: 2019
Pueblos within Pueblos
Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692
- Copyright year: 2017
As Precious as Blood
The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970
Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between Colorado’s Eastern and Western Slopes and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story, exploring their social and political dimensions alongside the technical and scientific perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2016
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
A Theoretical Approach
- Copyright year: 2019
Rituals and Sisterhoods
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
- Copyright year: 2019
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands
Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
- Copyright year: 2019
Detachment from Place
Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment
The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space.
- Copyright year: 2019
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
A historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.
- Copyright year: 2019
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
- Copyright year: 2018
Rewriting Maya Religion
Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum
- Copyright year: 2019
The Minuses
The Minuses beckons attention to ecological and feminist issues, amplifying the endangerments predicating women’s lives and the natural world, laying bare the struggle and faith necessary to endure with integrity and spirit intact.
- Copyright year: 2020
Colorado Day by Day
A readable, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures, developments, and forces that shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present.
- Copyright year: 2019
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge
Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
- Copyright year: 2017
Pleas and Petitions
Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
Reshaping the World
Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.
- Copyright year: 2019
America's Switzerland
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years
Peter Fidler
From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains
This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.
- Copyright year: 2020