Founded in 1945, the University Press of Florida is the official publisher of the State University System of Florida. UPF has published over 2,500 books since its inception and currently releases approximately 80 new titles each year. Its publishing strengths include archaeology, history, literature, Latin American studies, African American studies, space studies, sustainability, and Florida history and culture. UPF engages educators, students, and discerning readers by producing works of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.
University Press of Florida also includes the imprint, University of Florida Press.
Circulating Culture
Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
The Making of Florida’s Universities
Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence of Domination in Indigenous Latin America
From Death Row to Freedom
The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to death during the civil rights era of the 1960s.
After Apollo
Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon
This book explores how NASA’s space program impacted American society and culture during and after the race to the Moon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing from the perspective of the present day.
Genetic Joyce
Manuscripts and the Dynamics of Creation
Using genetic criticism, an approach focused on the materiality of the writing process, this book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts.
Heritage and Democracy
Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration
Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Broadening the familiar view of Mary McLeod Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, this book highlights Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora.
Blackness in Mexico
Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica
