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Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge

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Cognition, Engagement, and Practice “A very refreshing look at the nature of Maya pottery production. . . . it will open the eyes of many researchers to the depth of indigenous knowledge on pottery production and to a new way of thinking about the...

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A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading

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Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains

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Supporting Student Success in Online Classes

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What can we do to ensure the success of students who take courses online? A few years back, we saw prominent figures such as New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman sing the praises of massive online open courses (MOOCs) and their promise to...

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Beautiful Flesh

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Things your pancreas does not like: Vienna sausages, Round-Up weed killer, Coors six-packs, ten-dollar boxes of Inglenook, gasoline, aspirin . . . This essay appears in Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays (2017), edited by Stephanie G'Schwind. A bird’s...

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Soundbites from Dialogues with Michael Spooner, Part I: A Happened, Happening, Then Retrospective on a Career in Publishing, Writing, Reading, and Responding

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The editors of Writing Center Journal honor Michael Spooner’s work with writing center scholars on the occasion of his retirement from Utah State University Press. The tribute below is published in the 2017 Writing Center Journal, issue 36(2). The...

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Who Is Listening? Gun Violence on Campus

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A repost in the wake of the tragic February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This piece was originally published on October 13, 2015, in the wake of the school shooting at Umqua Community College near...

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With It but Out of It: Relevance in Academic Publishing

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Time moves on and academic publication is often quite slow. Distemporalities are perhaps inevitable. As I finished the second edition of my introductory anthropology text for UPC in 2016, I tried—as most text authors do—to have at least a few...

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Food Insecurity and the Student-Athlete

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Student-athletes are going hungry—just as many college students are going hungry. I heard Chris Faulkner’s voice as I walked the halls of the University of North Georgia athletics department. Faulkner, the head coach of the men’s basketball team, was...

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Social Writing/Social Media

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Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies Perspectives on Writing series Copublished with the WAC Clearinghouse Social media have been (for quite some time now) part of the fabric of our lives. But as with many new technologies, it often takes a while for...

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A Q&A with Jason Swarts, Part 2

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Join us today for the second half of our Q&A with Jason Swarts about his work in technical communications, a field experiencing robust growth. If you're just joining us, please see part 1 here. We're excited to share a new Q&A format here on the...

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Habits of Mind for Success

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Two scholars consider the broad applications of curiosity, responsibility, flexibility, openness, persistence, engagement, creativity, and metacognition in the context of life experiences and the classroom. In the late 1800s, professors at Harvard...

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A Q&A with Rich Rice & Kirk St.Amant, Part 3

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Join us today as we continue our conversation with Rice Rich and Kirk St.Amant about their research on online education. University Press of Colorado Blog Q&As share the perspectives of scholars working within their disciplines, bringing readers closer...

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The Wolf in Western Colorado

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Wolves are coming. Are we ready for them spiritually or institutionally? I often think about wolves. They inhabit my imagination when I am in the magnificent high country of Colorado; they also lope across the Great Plains of my mind. I also find...

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Writing Centers as Intersections for Controversy and Change

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Writing centers are institutional and academic sites for transformation and agency; they also have their own share of grand and everyday drama. Writing centers are institutional and academic sites for transformation and agency; they also have their own...

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Holy Week, Easter, and Religious Syncretism in Guatemala

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Some may see Palm Sunday and Easter religious processions across the Guatemalan highlands as strictly Catholic, but things that appear one way may actually be another. It’s been a cooler, wetter winter than usual. I’m so thankful for the rain, as our...

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Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

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Postprocess Postmortem

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Adapting to the Land

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A History of Agriculture in Colorado "Freeman’s book illuminates the cyclical nature of history: how many of the challenges we face today have been faced by our predecessors in agriculture for generations. As he helps us learn from our history, Freeman...

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University Press of Colorado, Utah State University Press, University of Wyoming Press, and University of Alaska Press are committed to transparent and equitable peer review and publication processes. In both processes, we require the usage of...

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University of Alaska Press

Publishing books on politics and history, Native languages and cultures, science and natural history, biography and memoir, poetry, fiction and anthologies, and original translations, all with an emphasis on the state of Alaska.


The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978


An Anchorage History, 1914-1941


Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska


Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca


Pioneer Fur Trader in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and China 1787-1794


Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California


From the Old People


Literary Snapshots of Alaska


An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space


The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith


Alaska Homestead Poems


A Prehistoric Camp at Fairbanks, Alaska


Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and Liverworts


American Schooling/Alaska Natives


Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband


A Garden Designer's Perspective


A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013


American Seafarer


Space, Nature, Theory


The Story of the Alaska Highway

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