Kari Dahlgren, Art History Editor, has a B.A. in English from Northwestern University. She was Publications Manager/Editor at the Center for Creative Photography from 2005 to 2010. Her work there included editing, project management, and print production of books, journals, web projects, and related materials. Previously, she served as Associate Director of Publications at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where she worked from 1997 to 2005. Recent and forthcoming publications include Mexican Muralism, by Alejandro Anreus, Leonard Folgarait, and Robin Greeley; Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen's The Art of Modern China; Apsara DiQuinzio's Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art; Raymund Ryan and Brian O'Doherty's White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes; and Linda Weintraub's To Life! Eco-Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet. Kari joined UC Press in 2010.
Areas of acquisition: Art History, Museum Copublications
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Blake Edgar, Senior Sponsoring Editor for the Natural Sciences, has B.A. degrees in anthropology and zoology from UC Berkeley and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. Before joining UC Press in 2000, he worked for the California Academy of Sciences and as a freelance writer and editor. He is coauthor of three books on paleoanthropology, including From Lucy to Language, a New York Times notable book of 1996, and has written for Scientific American, Discover, and Archaeology. Recent books on his list include Living Color, Adventures Among Ants, Uncorking the Past, and Authentic Wine. Blake revived and expanded the award-winning publishing program in wine and viticulture at UC Press.
Areas of acquisition: Ecology and Evolution, Environmental Sciences, Wine
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Mary C. Francis, Executive Editor, Music and Cinema Studies, did her undergraduate degree in music at Brandeis University and her graduate work in musicology at Yale. She worked at Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, and Mayfield Publishing before coming to UC Press in 1999. She has recently published work by Richard, Taruskin, Dana Polan, Miriam Hansen, Nat Hentoff, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Susan McClary, and Vivian Sobchack, among others.
Areas of acquisition: Music, Cinema, Media Studies, Mark Twain
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Niels Hooper, Executive Editor, has a B.A. in Modern History from Oxford University and an M.A. in History and African-American Studies from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining UC Press he worked at Verso Books in New York, at first running North American publicity, sales, and marketing, and later joining Verso's editorial board and becoming the US General Manager. Recent books on his list include Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City, Grace Lee Bogg's The Next American Revolution, Martha Biondi's The Black Revolution on Campus, Daniel Smail and Andrew Shryock's Deep History, Salim Tamari's Year of the Locust, Peter Boag's Re-dressing America's Frontier Past, Carlo Ginzburg's Threads and Traces, and Immanuel Wallerstein's Modern World-System IV.
Areas of acquisition: US History and American Studies, Pacific World, World History, Middle East Studies
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Reed Malcolm, Senior Editor for Anthropology and Asian Studies, holds a M.A. in the history of religion from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in political science from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Press in 1995, Reed worked at the University of Chicago Press and at Parallax Press in Berkeley. The UC Press Anthropology list encompasses all aspects of social and cultural studies, including comparative, historical, and multi-sited ethnography. Core areas include medical anthropology, public anthropology, global studies, religion, politics, linguistics, science and technology, Asia, and Latin America. Reed has had the good fortune of publishing such well-known authors as Arthur Kleinman, Joao Biehl, Elinor Ochs, Tanya Luhrmann, Joel Robbins, and Michael Jackson, among others. The Asian Studies at UC Press list is one of the longest running and most highly-regarded in the country, having published award-winning titles in history, anthropology, sociology, politics and policy. Authors have included Frederick Wakeman, Andrew Gordon, Sheldon Pollock, Romila Thapar, and Melvyn Goldtstein.
Areas of acquisition: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Global Studies
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Kate Marshall, Food and History Editor, studied Latin American history as an undergrad at Bates College and as a grad student UC Berkeley. She joined UC Press as an editorial assistant in 2008. Kate acquires titles on food, agriculture, and the environment, along with the occasional cookbook. In addition to managing the food series, she is expanding the history list to include more titles in environmental history and spearheading a new list on modern Latin America. She is particularly interested in projects that address Latin America from a global perspective, and projects that contend with social and environmental justice issues.
Areas of acquisition: Food Studies, Environmental History, Latin American History, Latin American Studies
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Peter Richardson, Economics Editor, studied economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and English at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the press, he was the founding editorial director at PoliPointPress, where he acquired and developed books by Dean Baker, Nomi Prins, Phillip Longman, Christine Pelosi, and many other accomplished authors. An editor at the Public Policy Institute of California from 1999 to 2004, he also served as an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas and as an acquisitions editor in the college division at Harper & Row, Publishers. His most recent book, a history of Ramparts magazine, was an Editor's Choice at the New York Times in 2009.
Areas of acquisition: Economics, Labor, Environmental and Natural Resource Management, Economic History
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Kim Robinson, Social Science Publisher + Regional Editor, received a B.A. in English from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining UC Press in 2009, she spent eight years at Oxford University Press in New York both as music editor and editorial director of the scholarly reference group. Her focus at UC Press is on publications about California and the West, including regional reference, partnerships with regional institutions, and Boom, a new journal focused on California. Before her move into publishing, she spent a decade working for nonprofit organizations and foundations interested focused on the environment and equal access to information and technology. A few of Kim's early UC Press acquisitions include California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It, Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife, and re-issues of the WPA guides to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Area of acquisition: Western History, Regional Studies
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Maura Roessner, Senior Editor, received a B.A. in English from Penn State University. She worked at Penn State Press and Princeton University Press before spending nearly a decade at Oxford University Press acquiring and developing textbooks, professional references, and scholarly works in the field of social work. Since joining UC Press in 2012, Maura's focus has been on criminology, law, and society.
Areas of acquisition: Criminology, Sociology, Law & Society, Criminal Justice
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Eric A. Schmidt, Classics and Religion Editor, studied painting and printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design before receiving his bachelor's degree in liberal arts from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eric has been with UC Press since 2007, working in acquisitions and manuscript editorial on our lists for classics, history, art history, music, and cinema, before taking up the editorship for classics and religion. Eric prefers to receive proposals electronically; please submit a brief coverletter describing the project via the contact box below.
Areas of acquisition: Religion; Classical Studies, the Ancient World through Late Antiquity
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Naomi Schneider, Executive Editor for the Social Sciences, was an undergraduate history major at Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate student in history at Brown University. She worked at HarperCollins, Random House, and Oxford University Press before coming to UC Press. In a previous life, she worked in a roofing factory, as a waitress, and on the railroad. She has edited award-winning authors including Paul Farmer, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Cynthia Enloe, Jody Williams, Annette Lareau and Alejandro Portes. A significant portion of her list is focused on issues of social justice and human rights. In 2010, UC Press launched the Naomi Schneider Imprint to highlight the lives and experiences of the disenfranchised; these select titles reassess mainstream history and spur unconventional thinking about contemporary social and political matters.
Areas of acquisition: Sociology, Public Anthropology, Contemporary Social Issues, Global Health
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