Elizabeth Adams, Assistant to the Director and Rights and Permissions Coordinator
Business
Sonja Hubbard, Fiscal Affairs Manager
Stacey Hayes, Accounts Payable and Royalties Manager
Acquisitions
Nathaniel Holly, Editor-in-Chief
Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Executive Editor
Sarah Shermyen, Acquisitions Editor
Beth Snead, Acquisitions Coordinator
Anjelica Fabro, Editorial Assistant
Editorial, Design, and Production
Jon Davies, Assistant Director for Editorial, Design, and Production
Melissa Bugbee Buchanan, Assistant Director of Publishing Operations
Erin Kirk, Senior Designer and Art Director
Rebecca Norton, Production Editor
Anna Forrester, Production Editor
Mary McKeon, Production Coordinator
Marketing and Sales
Rachel Watkins, Marketing and Sales Director
Jason Bennett, Publicist and Social Media Manager
Candice Lawrence, Publicist and Social Media Coordinator
Madison Mosely, Digital Publishing and Metadata Coordinator
Laura Price Yoder, Marketing Content and Exhibits Coordinator
Victoria Wright, Georgia Power–Grady College Graduate Marketing Assistant
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Ed Hatfield, Managing Editor
Development
Lee Snelling, Senior Director of Development
Leandra Nessel, Associate Director of Development and Annual Giving
Poet Kinsale Drake (The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket) at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), March 2025.
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Friends,
Over the past several months an energetic committee, ably led by Dr. Julie Meehan of the J. W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, has been hard at work on the Press’s new strategic plan, its first in at least fifteen years. It may seem an odd time to plan—amid significant uncertainty and shifting ground—yet we learned a great deal from our stakeholders, including staff, donors, faculty editorial board members, booksellers, and other university press publishers. And perhaps owing to the nature of the current landscape, our priorities were clear.
Along with a three-year plan, the committee has crafted a new mission statement and our first-ever vision and values statements, which I am sharing here. We will include more about the strategic plan in the FY26 Annual Report as it is rolled out and we begin working toward our goals, but owing to the times, I want to share this preview of our commitment to our publishing work for the University of Georgia, the citizens of the state, and engaged readers everywhere.
Thank you, as always, for your support and advocacy.
vision
Advancing knowledge for the public good mission
To publish innovative scholarship and compelling stories that inspire and inform the people of Georgia and the world
values Integrity
We publish trustworthy, quality scholarship and literature that fosters authenticity and pursues truth.
Community
We welcome many perspectives in an effort to build a better society and enhance civil discourse by connecting people with ideas and information.
Stewardship
We invest our resources conscientiously, applying our ethical foundation to make wise decisions about how best to use our assets. We follow the soundest practices and carefully curate our publications for the sustainability of the organization.
Intellectual Freedom
We encourage the open exploration and expression of ideas, inquiry, and information.
Creativity and Innovation
We embrace new forms of scholarship and expression and creative solutions to problems in support of excellence. We take thoughtful risks as we help to shape the future as part of the University of Georgia.
Press Director Lisa Bayer introduces students to book publishing at the Hilsman Middle School Career Fair, Athens, Georgia, November 2024.
ABOUT THE PRESS
MISSION
Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University’s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world and serious books of interest to general readers, with special attention paid to the citizens of the state.
The Press has been a member of the Association of University Presses since 1940 and is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state. With a full-time staff of twenty publishing professionals, the Press currently publishes 70 new books a year and has over 2,500 titles in print. The Press is also a founding partner of the New Georgia Encyclopedia, the state’s award-winning, online multimedia reference work on the people, places, events, and institutions of Georgia.
EDITORIAL BOARD
As of June 30, 2025
CHAIR
Jane McPherson
Associate Professor and Director of Global Engagement, School of Social Work
BOARD MEMBERS
Daniel Rood
Associate Professor, Department of History
Sonia A. Hirt
Dean, College of Environment and Design
Pablo Lapegna
Associate Professor, Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Akinloye A. Ojo
Professor, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies Director, African Studies Institute
Jennifer L. Rice
Professor and Graduate Coordinator Department of Geography
Akela Reason
Associate Professor, History Director, Museum Studies Certificate Program
Esra Mirze Santesso
Professor, English
David Welch Suggs Jr.
Associate Professor, Journalism
Associate Director, Carmical Sports Media Institute
Brian Allen Drake
Principal Lecturer, History
Reinaldo L. Román
Associate Professor, History
“The University of Georgia Press is an institution of which the entire UGA community—faculty, students, alumni—and in fact all citizens of Georgia should be proud.
As a member of the Editorial Board for the last three years, I’ve been invited to see behind the scenes of the Press as it engages the creative, the challenging, the amusing, and the rigorous and to hear how our expert editors consider and nurture their prizewinning projects. Board members get to sample from the Press’s vast offerings and see how their work illuminates ideas close to home— new histories of the Civil War, field guides to Georgia flora, the pleasures of pimento cheese!— as well faraway: from the Maasai Steppe to Athens, Greece, to the intricacies of publishing literature in translation. Serving on the Board has been an education and a delight!”
—Jane McPherson, Editorial Board Chair
NEW PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES, AND EFFORTS
LONDON BOOK FAIR AND LIVERPOOL DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
The London Book Fair is the preeminent spring event in the global publishing calendar. UGA Press shared exhibit space at the 2025 LBF in the Association of University Presses cooperative booth, with Director Lisa Bayer attending. LBF offers a unique opportunity to seek new licensing business with UK and European publishers, meet with a variety of vendors, and discuss current global challenges and opportunities through networking.
Following the book fair, Lisa traveled to Liverpool for the first annual Liverpool Distribution Services Client Press Day. UGAP was the second American university press to sign with LDS, a new division of Liverpool University Press, in September 2024, for exclusive distribution in the UK and Europe and nonexclusive in the rest of the world outside the United States and Canada. Partnering with Liverpool Distribution Services offers a greater number of marketing services, connecting our books and authors with global wholesalers, booksellers, and retailers. We are pleased to be part of LDS’s distribution services, which offers select university presses a bespoke opportunity to get books into more readers’ hands around the globe.
BOOK ON NUCLEAR WASTE SPARKS NEW RESEARCH INTO CANCER CAUSES
Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis by Linda C. Morice was published in the fall of 2022 and received widespread attention throughout the St. Louis region, including reviews in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis Magazine, coverage on the local public television station, and several large public events with the author. Not long after, St. Louis physician Dr. Gautum Agarwal sent Morice a letter crediting Nuked as the “spark” for his research on early cancer detection in the creek’s watershed, which was subsequently detailed in a Journal of the American Medical Association article in April 2024, coauthored with colleagues from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Mayo Clinic.
After Dr. Agarwal’s research was published in JAMA, there was renewed attention to the issue—now at the national and international level—from large news organizations like the BBC and People magazine. In November 2024, the U.S. Congress directed the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a feasibility assessment of the health effects on military veterans who were exposed to the Manhattan Project–related wastes. As a part of its assessment, the committee interviewed Morice to provide historical context. CBS News began following the story and reached out to Morice for an interview in December 2024. That interview led to a two-part story that aired on CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings on April 24 and 25, 2025.
Before the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired last year, there was an effort to renew and expand compensation to victims of nuclear pollution to include places like Coldwater Creek in Missouri.
U.S. university press representatives Elizabeth Demers (Michigan State), Lisa Bayer (Georgia), and Jamie Jones (Michigan) meet with Liverpool University Press CEO Anthony Cond and team, March 2025.
NEW PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES, AND EFFORTS
While that effort failed, the ongoing attention to the issue—thanks in part to Morice’s book—has provided the foundation for new legislation to extend and expand compensation. A bill was submitted earlier this year and is currently working its way through Congress.
FRYE GAILLARD INDUCTED INTO ALABAMA WRITERS HALL OF FAME
On March 7, 2025, Frye Gaillard was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa. A native of Mobile, Gaillard is the author of more than thirty books, including A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance (with Cynthia Tucker), and most recently, Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels (all NewSouth Books imprint at UGA Press).
“Though we were born on opposite sides of the color line—Frye is white, I am Black—we have come to see the South in much the same way: a place that holds lessons, some to follow, some to shun, for the rest of the nation,” Tucker wrote in her introduction to an interview with Gaillard for Salvation South upon publication of Heroes and Other Mortals. In her review of the book for the Alabama Writers’ Forum, Patricia Foster said that it is this aspect of Gaillard’s character and approach to writing that makes him such an important voice for the region. “For a long time, I have been guided by the belief that good writing is good thinking, thinking that asks hard questions, reveals hidden patterns, and acknowledges the conundrum of truth-telling and hope. In so many ways, Heroes and Other Mortals is such a book.”
AFRICAN LANGUAGE LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION SERIES ANNOUNCED
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce African Language Literatures in Translation, a new venue for literature originally written in African languages. Edited by Alexander Fyfe (UGA) and Christopher Ernest Ouma (Duke), the series publishes English translations of important works of literature—both classic and contemporary—written in indigenous African languages. The series is generously supported by Press Advisory Council members Dr. Arthur N. Dunning and Karen Baynes-Dunning.
As series editor Christopher Ernest Ouma argues, African literature is having a moment that demands acknowledgment: “The time is right for an initiative that publishes and promotes essential works of world literature written in African languages.” And Stephanie Newell, chair of the Council on African Studies at Yale University, agrees. “This series is both timely and decades overdue,” she argues, “and has the potential to transform the field of African literary studies.”
The works chosen for the series are almost all already in circulation in their original versions but not currently available to Anglophone readerships. The series is designed to address the current difficulties inherent in accessing African writing, especially works that are originally written in indigenous and underrepresented languages. In this regard, the editors and UGA Press are particularly mindful to ensure that the translated works are also available at reasonable cost on the continent and will work with Africa-based presses and organizations to ensure this.
For Ignatius T. Mabasa, author of Mapenzi (The Mad), the first book to be published in the series, “the translation into English [is] a gain against Western hegemony. Instead of an African story being forced by the capitalist world system and globalization into English, the translation is a sign of respect to Shona people in wanting to understand their worldview and the issues that trouble them.”
Left to right: Joseph Trimble, Frye Gaillard, and fellow UGA Press author Jacqueline Allen Trimble at the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Norris Photography.
NEW PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES, AND EFFORTS
Titles forthcoming (first title in Spring 2026):
The Mad, Ignatius T. Mabasa. Translated from Shona by J. Tsitsi Mutiti
The Swallowers of Bones, Ali Hilal Ali. Translated from Kiswahili by Meg Arenberg
They Are Us, Katama Mkangi. Translated from Kiswahili by Richard Prins
New Virus, Halfani Sudy. Translated from Kiswahili by Jay Boss Rubin
GRAPHIC HISTORY
When is a monograph not a monograph? In this instance, when it’s a comic book.
The Press’s first foray into graphic history as a paradigm-shifting genre—Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War—was published in March 2025. Historian Andrew Fialka, a PhD graduate of UGA, and illustrator Anderson Carman wanted to present a deeply researched, rigorous rethinking of guerrilla violence during the American Civil War. The book combines the research and argument of the historian with the aesthetic and, yes, graphic sensibilities of the visual artist. They both bring strong storytelling instincts, visual and textual. The sum of these parts is a compelling account of two disturbingly violent episodes of “unorthodox” warfare. The book has stunning (if unsettling) artwork and features an innovative approach to dialog boxes that helps readers track direct quotes, primary sources, and Fialka’s analysis. It even has endnotes!
When presenting a new genre, some of the missionary work falls to the authors. As author Andrew Fialka explains, “Anderson and I toured Hope Never to See It by making twelve stops in ten cities throughout six states—a total of 3,156 miles in the car over six weeks. We depleted our stock of books on nearly every leg of the tour to audiences as diverse as a U.S. army base at Fort Leavenworth, the Kansas City Public Library, and the Chicago Comic-Con. Our most frequently asked questions were, How long did this take you? and, Are you doing any more?”
Serious graphic history like Hope Never to See It can be a wonderful tool for teachers, and we hope to publish more. This book was funded, in part, by generous support from the Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies, as well as fundraising efforts by the authors. Watch this space for future groundbreaking graphic gems.
NEW GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA Celebrating Twenty Years
On February 12, 2004, a crowd of dignitaries gathered under the gold dome in Atlanta for a virtual ribboncutting to celebrate the launch of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. More than two decades later, the Encyclopedia remains an authoritative guide to all things Georgia and an essential resource for the state’s educators. The NGE, which had just 700 articles at the time of its launch, now boasts more than 2,200 entries across all fields and disciplines. 2024 saw the publication of a dozen new works, including articles on the Great Migration, the Atlanta Georgian, and Dougherty County’s Radium Springs.
NEW PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES, AND EFFORTS
In 2024 the Encyclopedia partnered with colleagues from UGA’s Special Collections to create the Georgia Music Collections exhibit at the new Akins Ford Arena in Athens. The exhibit showcases memorabilia from Georgia’s rich music history, including a red velvet cape worn by James Brown, a slide guitar played by Duane Allman, and a megaphone used by Michael Stipe. An interactive display meanwhile features more than one hundred entries from the NGE’s music collection, providing context for the instruments, costumes, and prints on display. In May 2025, just five months after its debut, the exhibit was recognized as a 2025 Travel Blazer by the Georgia Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus.
MURMUR TRESTLE BOOK LAUNCH
The back cover of R.E.M.’s influential 1983 album Murmur famously features an image of the wooden Trail Creek Trestle. Over time the aging nineteenthcentury train trestle in Athens, Georgia, became known as, simply, the “Murmur Trestle,” a global pilgrimage site for fans of the band. Removed in 2021 to make way for a pedestrian bridge and bike path, the trestle has been captured for the ages in a new collection of photographs by Jason Thrasher. In September 2024, Athens’s Ace/Francisco Gallery was the site of a spec-
tacular launch for the Murmur Trestle book and photography exhibit. Thrasher provided tours and signed books for the overflow crowd, including the Press Advisory Council. The book’s publication was supported in part by the Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies.
Author Jason Thrasher speaks to the Press Advisory Council at the Ace/ Francisco Gallery, September 2024.
Author Jason Thrasher with Press director Lisa Bayer.
Photography featured in Murmur Trestle at the Ace/Francisco Gallery, September 2024.
NEW PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES, AND EFFORTS
LAUNCH OF NEW PRESS WEBSITE
WELCOME & GOODBYE FROM UGA PRESS
In December 2024, we said farewell to Steven Wallace, Marketing and Sales Director, who retired after seven years at UGA Press and decades in the publishing industry. We welcomed our new Marketing and Sales Director Rachel Watkins, formerly Director of Operations and Events at Avid Bookshop in Athens, in January 2025. Former Editorial Assistant Laura Price Yoder is now Marketing Content and Exhibits Coordinator. In June 2025 the Press welcomed new Editorial Assistant Anjelica Fabro, PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago and former editorial intern at the University Press of Florida.
In July 2025, after fifteen months of planning, the UGA Press launched a new website built by university press website specialists Supadu. The website’s new look delivers a clean, modern aesthetic that allows our award-winning book covers to shine. The new design employs the best practices in web accessibility and performance and reflects the mission and publishing prowess of the Press. Led by Madison Mosely, representatives from each department at the Press sought insights from colleagues, customers, and key stakeholders to ensure the new website meets the needs and exceeds the expectations of our audiences from its past iteration. Their collaborative efforts brought forth a well-organized and polished offering to our website visitors. The launch represents a new milestone for UGA Press’s digital presence and positions the Press for continued digital growth. Please visit our page at ugapress.org to see more!
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Rachel Watkins
Laura Price Yoder
Steven Wallace opens his retirement gift from the Press, Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing
Bookselling in the 20th Century.
The new homepage of the University of Georgia Press website, launched in 2025.
Anjelica Fabro
IN SERVICE TO GEORGIA
PRESS OUTREACH
Staff members share their publishing expertise across the University of Georgia and the Athens community through outreach and engagement, including presentations to faculty and students, conference and faculty/staff resource tabling, the annual campus book sale, and providing tours of the Press to interested groups.
The University of Georgia Press publishes works by authors, editors, and contributors around the globe, with many from Georgia, including the University of Georgia community at large. Among the publication list are many titles sharing the historical, cultural, and ecological diversity of the state of Georgia. The Press also provides publication support to campus units through its Publishing Services program.
LETTER TO AUTHOR JIM HOWELL ON BEHALF OF A YOUNG READER
Hello again!
I hope you are doing well. I am reaching out to you again to let you know that your gift of a book to my son is still a source of joy for him. It lives on our coffee table. On a walk with my mother recently, he found a dragonfly nymph shell (I’m telling this wrong I’m sure and he would correct me) and he was overjoyed because you mentioned in your book how important they were for the environment. He assured me it was a dragonfly nymph and not a damsel fly nymph because it was bigger, wider, and flatter. I’m going to have to believe him. We’re all getting an education over here! My mother was so impressed, she demanded I update you on the longevity and power of your gift. . . .
I’m including a picture of him with his grasshopper friend. He is not great with people, and sometimes struggles socially, but he loves nature, and especially invertebrates. Thank you for encouraging and supporting him!
Luke, from Columbia County, Georgia, found a love of entomology from Hey, Bug Doctor! The Scoop on Insects in Georgia’s Homes and Gardens (UGA Press, 2006). Luke is pictured here with his favorite insect, the Lubber Grasshopper.
Michael Thurmond, author of James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist, spoke at a fireside chat at the British Consul General’s residence in Atlanta, October 2024. Left to right: Candice Lawrence, Peggy Galis (Advisory Council chair), Michael Thurmond, Lisa Bayer, Steven Wallace.
Author Mark Clegg at a book event for The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia at the Athens-Clarke County Library, September 2024. Standing, left to right: Superior Court Judge Lawton Stephens, former BHHS student Elizabeth Platt (her spouse, Frank in the black shirt), former AHS student Robert Hawkins, and Alan Morse, former AHS student. Credit: Kendall Young.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
As of June 30, 2025
Design and Production
Sydney Leahy, Graphic Design, ’26
Generously funded by the Katharine and Alan Elsas Internship in Book Design and Production
Intellectual Property
Ella Johnson, English and Classics, ’27
Generously funded by Don and Cindy Waters
Business
Kira Law, English and Communication Sciences and Disorders, minor in American Sign Language, ’28
Generously funded by the Lane Family
Marketing
Victoria Wright, Public Relations (M.A.), ’25
Georgia Power–Grady College Assistantship
Sarah Bell, Entertainment & Media Studies, minor in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, ’25
Rachel Weber, English, minor in Business Administration in Economics, ’25
Lauren Rodgers, English, minor in History, ’25
Seth Wright, English and Political Science, ’27
Oraa Raysoni, Management Information Systems, ’27
Alexandre Tran, Management Information Systems, ’25
Editorial
Lorraine Calhoun, English, ’25
Elizabeth Kim, English and Journalism, ’25
Sayantika Mandal, doctorate in Creative Writing, ’26 xPD internship generously funded by the Graduate School of the University of Georgia
Acquisitions
Ally Thompson, English, minor in Classical Culture / Law, Ethics, and Philosophy, ’26
Generously funded by the Wormsloe Foundation
Claire Scafidi, Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies & International Affairs, minor in Studio Art ’27
Generously funded by the Ralph Haygood Stephens and Eugenia Doughtie Stephens Undergraduate Internship Fund
Lyn Hemmingway, doctorate in History, ’28
History PhD Apprenticeship generously funded by the Solomon History Internship Fund and the UGA Department of History
Dilan Bat-haee, doctorate in History, ’30
Peggy Heard Galis History PhD Apprentice, Summer 2025
Kaitlyn Talsky, English and Theatre, ’25
Generously funded by the Ralph Haygood Stephens and Eugenia Doughtie Stephens Undergraduate Internship Fund
Anaiya Adkins, English, ’25
Generously funded by the Wormsloe Foundation
April Cerritos, English and Comparative Literature, ’27
Generously funded by the Wormsloe Foundation
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Laura Theobald, doctorate in English, ’26
Bryant Barnes, doctorate in History, ’25
“I’m incredibly grateful for my time at the UGA Press, where I’ve had the opportunity to grow both professionally and personally. Working alongside a supportive team within the Marketing Department at the Press has been a truly rewarding experience. I’m excited to carry forward everything I’ve learned!” —Victoria Wright
Anaiya Adkins Ella Johnson
Victoria Wright
Kira Law
Lauren Rodgers
Oraa Raysoni
Sarah Bell
Seth Wright
RECENT AWARDS
Brett Bannor, American Sheep: A Cultural History
Award for Distinguished Book, American Sociological Society
IPPY Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards (commended)
Jay Baron Nicorvo, Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir
Indie Next Pick, Indie Bound
Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show award for cover design (long-listed)
Ariana Benson, Black Pastoral: Poems
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Claremont Graduate University
Maria Angela Diaz, A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South
Michael V. R. Thomason Best Book of the Year, Gulf South Historical Association
Sara A. H. Butler, Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South’s Most Eccentric Millionaire
Excellence for Research Using the Holdings of Archives, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council
Michael L. Thurmond, James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia’s History, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council
Georgia Author of the Year Awards, Georgia Writers Association (runner-up)
Sally Sierer Bethea, Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River
Charles L. Weltner Freedom of Information Award, Georgia First Amendment Foundation
John Turner, Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail: Walking On through Self-Doubt and Aging
IPPY Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Renata Golden, Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment (published by Columbus State University Press)
Southwest Book Award
Southwest Book Design and Production Award
First Horizon Award, Eric Hoffer Award for Books (short-listed)
Brooke Champagne, Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy
Best Indie Books of the Year, Kirkus Reviews
First Horizon Award, Eric Hoffer Award for Books (short-listed)
Eric Hoffer Book Award, Eric Hoffer Award for Books (short-listed)
Indies Book of the Year, Foreword Reviews (short-listed)
Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891–1901
Italian American Studies Association Book Award
Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, ed , Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry
Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters
RECENT AWARDS
Lisa L. Denmark, Savannah’s Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City Excellence for Research Using the Holdings of Archives, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council
Tennison S. Black, Survival Strategies: Poems New Mexico–Arizona Book Awards, New Mexico Book Co-op
Tony Barnhart, The 19 of Greene: Football, Friendship, and Change in the Fall of 1970 IPPY Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State H. Wayne Morgan Book Prize, The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Kinsale Drake, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket: Poems Best Poetry, Southwest Books of the Year Juror’s Choice Award, National Indie Excellence Awards Indies Book of the Year, Foreword Reviews (short-listed) First Horizon Award, Eric Hoffer Award for Books (short-listed) National Indie Excellence Award (short-listed) Reading the West Book Awards (long-listed) Eric Hoffer Book Award, Eric Hoffer Award for Books (honorable mention)
Paul M. Pressly, A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country Excellence for Research Using the Holdings of Archives, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council
Carol Roh Spaulding, Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories IPPY Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Keira V. Williams, Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South Peggy O’Brien Biennial Book Prize
Iheoma Nwachukwu, Japa and Other Stories PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection (short-listed)
Joe Street, Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize, University of East Anglia and British Association for American Studies (short-listed)
Moira Marquis and Dave “Mac” Marquis, eds., Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement IPPY Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards (commended) Next Generation Indie Book Award, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (long-listed)
Greg Brooking, From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia
Book of the Year Award, George Washington American Revolution Round Table of the District of Columbia (honorable mention)
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The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation
Literature
by
Melanie Benson Taylor
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly
Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Fund for Southern Colonial American History
“Gorgeous, gut-wrenching, and transcendent. CMarie Fuhrman offers the reader both her arrant honesty and her giant heart. Salmon Weather casts a love spell.”
betsy gaines quammen,
There’s Lots to See in Georgia: A Guide to Georgia’s State Historic Sites edited by Jennifer W. Dickey
Social Roots: Lowcountry Foodways, Reconnecting the Landscape edited with an introduction by Sarah V. Ross
The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia by Mark Clegg
Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return by CMarie Furhman
A History of Sautee Nacoochee by Tommy Hart Jones
Upset at Oakmont: How Dave Herron Beat Bobby Jones in the 1919 U.S. Amateur by Steven Schlossman and Kari Thomas
Happier Far: Essays by Diane Mehta
The Decade of Letting Things Go: A Postmenopause Memoir by Cris Mazza
The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money by Kathryn L. Beasley
Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet by Patrick Dixon
This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile by Mike Bunn
Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain by Lesa Carnes Shaul
author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West
RECENT RELEASES
Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels by
Frye Gaillard
Great Times Down South: Deep South Tourism Promotion in the Carter Era by Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani
Living Indigenous Feminism: Stories of Contemporary Native American Women by Carolyn Ross Johnston and Terri McKinney Baker
Your Masters:
and
That
by
Feline Cultures: Cats Create Their History by Éric Baratay, translated by Drew S. Burk
Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan by Guy
The Exit Is the Entrance: Essays on Escape by Lydia Paar
Recreation without Humiliation: Black Leisure in the Twentieth-Century South by Mary Stanton
Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After by Fiona De Londras, Alicia GutierrezRomine, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Johanna Schoen, Salamishah Tillet, and Karin Wulf, in conversation with Rhae Lynn Barnes and Catherine Clinton
Salamanders of the Eastern United States by Larry Wilson, Whit Gibbons, and Joe Mitchell
Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
A Degraded Caste of Society: Unequal Protection of the Law as a Badge of Slavery by Andrew T. Fede
Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir by Jay Baron Nicorvo
Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail: Walking On through Self-Doubt and Aging by John Turner
Mapping Conquest: The Battle Maps of Horseshoe Bend by Kathryn H. Braund
Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies
“This book set my heart and mind on fire. Nicorvo is a magician: he has taken tragedy and transformed it into art.”
saïd sayrafiezadeh, author of When Skateboards Will Be Free
“A compulsive descent into darkness, a fearless portrait of the invincibility of our fragile hearts. Nicorvo leaves it all on the page . . . a bravura performance.”
junot díaz, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Kill
Run The Jewels
the World
Made Them
Jaap van der Doelen
Gugliotta
UGA PRESS
Appalachian Mountain Christianity: The Spirituality of Otherness
by Bill J. Leonard
Hiking Metro Atlanta’s Hidden Forests: An Hour or Less from Downtown by Jonah McDonald and Zana Pouncey
Secret Histories: A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship edited by Kathleen Diffley, Caroline Gebhard, and Cheryl B. Torsney
Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party by Joe Street
“Gene Kansas—writer, preservationist, and cultural developer—is in love with history. With Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, Kansas has given us more than a guidebook: he’s given us a gift. Because Sweet Auburn isn’t just another neighborhood any more than the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was just another minister.”
gary m. pomerantz, journalist, author of Where Peachtree Meets
Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
Atkins: Mr. Guitar by Don Cusic
The Mosquito Confederation: A Borderlands History of Colonial Central America by Daniel Mendiola
Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions by Jacob P. Chamberlain
Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta’s National Treasure by Gene Kansas, illustrated by Clay Kiningham
Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century edited by James F. Brooks and Jeremy M. Moss
Carl and Sally Gable Fund for Southern Colonial American History
Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities by Stephen Legg
From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia by Greg Brooking
A Union Tested: The Civil War Letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike edited by Jeremy Neely
Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood’s American South by Megan Hunt
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RECENT RELEASES
Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean edited by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes
Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature edited by Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart
New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States by Emily
Faith in Education at the Skidaway Island Benedictine Mission by Laura Seifert
The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South Visionary by Andrew R. Parnell
Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays by Joe Bonomo
American Sheep: A Cultural History by Brett Bannor
Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies
and Zana Pouncey
“Some say Atlanta is only about asphalt. This guidebook will change their minds.”
— South Fork Conservancy
The Archivability of Television: Essays on Preservation and Perseverance edited by Lauren Bratslavsky and Elizabeth Peterson
A Pirate’s Life No More: The Pardoned Pirates of the Bahamas by Steven C. Hahn
James Madison’s Constitution: A Double Security and a Parchment Barrier edited by Eric T. Kasper and Howard Schweber
Mitchell-Eaton
Food Autonomy in Chicago by Pancho McFarland
The Zombie Memes of Dixie by Scott Romine
Hiking Intown Atlanta’s Hidden Forests: Inside and On the Perimeter by Jonah McDonald
A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom: The Life of Elisha Tyson edited by Joshua D. Rothman
INVESTING IN OUR MISSION
The Press is fortunate to have six funds that support specific subject areas in which we publish. These funds have underwritten more than one hundred new publications since 1954, when Elfrida De Renne Barrow and Craig Barrow Jr. of the Wormsloe Foundation created the Wormsloe Publication Fund to support books on the history and culture of Georgia and the South. Our other funds are as follows: The Wormsloe Foundation Nature Fund is dedicated to informing and educating general readers about the unique natural environments of the Southeast and the pressing need to preserve them.
The Sarah Mills Hodge Fund honors its namesake’s work in Savannah, Georgia, by supporting publications in the areas of African and African American history, culture, and literature.
Black Cotton
Georgia’s Historical Recipes: Seeking Our State’s Oldest Written Foodways and the Stories behind Them by Valerie J. Frey
Fundraising and Publication Funds
The Friends Fund underwrites projects chosen by the director. This fund was established and is sustained by the generous gifts of the UGA Press Advisory Council.
The Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies honors a late champion of Georgia history and historic preservation through supporting a wide range of scholarly and general interest books in the areas of southern history, culture, literature, and food and foodways.
The Georgia and Bruce McEver Fund for the Arts and Environment underwrites publications in the arts and environment, including the Georgia Poetry Prize and projects in landscape architecture, historic preservation, and the built environment.
Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta’s National Treasure by Gene Kansas, illustrated by Clay Kiningham
Bon Appétit, Y’all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking, Revised and Updated, with New Recipes by Virginia Willis
Fiscal Year 2025 Sources of Income
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Northern Appalachia edited by Todd Davis and Noah Davis, with Carolyn G. Mahan, Natural History Editor
DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
Hopefully, by the time you’re reading this, you’ve spent some time reviewing the previous eighteen pages that highlight the work of the UGA Press over the past year. At a glance: 69 new books published. 21 student interns hired. 45 books recognized with national awards.
By any measure, this was a successful year, and we did it with the help of friends like you. Whether you made a financial investment in us via a gift to the UGA Foundation to support a book or an internship, or you purchased books for yourself or family and friends, you were investing in the work that we do. When you see the impact that your support made—the books published, the knowledge shared,
ADVISORY COUNCIL
As of June 30, 2025
Peggy H. Galis, Chair Athens, Georgia
Christopher Lane, Vice Chair Savannah, Georgia
Craig Barrow, Founding Chair Savannah, Georgia
Frederick L. Allen III Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Suzanne Barbour Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Honorable Roy E. Barnes Marietta, Georgia
Thornton Barrow Savannah, Georgia
Karen Baynes-Dunning Greenville, South Carolina
Pete Candler
Asheville, North Carolina
Dr. Art Dunning Greenville, South Carolina
Debbie Edwards Atlanta, Georgia
J. Wiley Ellis Savannah, Georgia
Thomas Fleetwood Atlanta, Georgia
Candy Gilliland Athens, Georgia
Dr. Nancy L. Grayson Watkinsville, Georgia
H. Edward Hales Jr. Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. John B. Hardman Atlanta, Georgia
Marian W. Hill
Atlanta, Georgia
Ellen Hale Jones Atlanta, Georgia
Philip M. Juras Athens, Georgia
Charles B. Knapp Athens, Georgia
Keeli M. W. Knight Madison, Georgia
Rebecca D. Lang Athens, Georgia
H. Bruce McEver New York, New York
and the students reached—we hope that you will be proud of what we have accomplished together. As always, thank you for your support!
