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.
On a Rising Swell
Surf Stories from Florida's Space Coast
- Copyright year: 2025
Of Slash Pines and Manatees
A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and change.
- Copyright year: 2025
Welcome to Florida
True Tales from America's Most Interesting State
A much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State today.
- Copyright year: 2025
Moving through Life
Essential Lessons of Dance
- Copyright year: 2025
Futures of Black Power
Reimagining the Black Past
This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.
Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Articulate Body
This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion.
Alive in Their Garden
The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom
In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story, introducing new readers to a tragedy and international outcry that heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.
Guilt and Finnegans Wake
From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body
Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.
The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare
In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.
Roman Bioarchaeology
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World
In this book, researchers use human skeletal remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history.
An Archaeology of Woodland Transformation
Social Movements, Identities, and Pottery Production on the Gulf Coast
In this book, Jessica Jenkins provides a detailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in the Lower Suwannee region of Florida’s Gulf Coast, drawing on ceramic analysis techniques to explore a period of transformative change.
Periodicals in Latin America
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Serialized Print Culture
Assembling research on a diverse range of serialized publications from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this volume explores how Latin American print culture has influenced local movements and informed global exchange.