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.
More City than Water
A Houston Flood Atlas
Writers explore a city’s relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding.
Last Gangster in Austin
Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia
DJ Screw
A Life in Slow Revolution
How a DJ’s innovative chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene.
The Running Kind
Listening to Merle Haggard
A new and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters.