University of Illinois Press 2022 Annual Report

2022 | ANNUAL REPORT

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR As the world has slowly reopened in the wake of the global pandemic, we at the Press continue to integrate virtual with physical and in-person presence. We are excited to be cultivating new and ongoing initiatives and partnerships in our books, journals, internships, and public programming.

Our two publishing symposia were again presented virtually, with sessions on accessible writing and targeted marketing for audiences beyond the Academy; as well as a pair of sessions considering best practices for anti-bias and antiracist research and publication. In addition to broadening our audience, virtual presentation translates into high quality video resources that are of ongoing benefit to prospective authors and others.

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The launch of the Scholarly Publishing Collective, a journals platform hosted by Duke University Press, brings new visibility and marketing energy to UI Press journals. We are proud to be founding partners in this new go-to resource for journals scholarship. Our own journals stable continues to grow, with the Journal of Finnish Studies and Italian Americana coming on during the 2022 fiscal year. Each of these represents partnerships that anchor us more firmly in the community of scholarly publishers and in areas of importance to the Press and our University.

Other partnerships also bring new synergies. We partnered with the Prairie Research Institute, housed at UIUC, in publishing a definitive and spectacular guide to reptiles and amphibians of Illinois; and with the American Institute of Architects Chicago in publishing its updated, authoritative guide to the city. Partnerships with the National Women’s Studies Association and the Labor and Working Class History Association support UI Press’s publication of the highest quality first books in their respective fields.

UI Press was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities of a whisker under $200,000 to support materials and staff needed to expand our catalog of e-books. NEH also provided grants to publish open access editions of two UI Press books whose research and writing were supported by earlier NEH fellowships.

We are delighted to welcome seven new staff members to departments across the Press, including acquisitions, manuscript editorial, marketing, journals, and IT. Our student roster also remains robust, with interns in marketing and business, as well as our signature ’Round the Press internship program.

You can find out more about all these programs in the following pages as well as on our brand new website: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/. We look forward to your visit!

Sincerely, Laurie Matheson, DMA

ABOUT THE PRESS

The University of Illinois Press is a founding member of the Association of University Presses.

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Established in 1918, the University of Illinois Press publishes seventy new books per year and forty-two humanities and social science journals. The Press invests in the tools and practices of responsible publishing. We work with scholars to deploy their research in the service of a more nuanced understanding of the past and present; and we market and disseminate this transformative scholarship to local, national, and global audiences. We hold scholarly publishing to be an essential component of the active, applied cultural literacy required by a healthy democracy. It provides a launching pad for discussion, engagement, and activism. It provides tools for interrogating power structures and tools of oppression.

It shines a light on histories of oppression and injustice, resistance and protest, organizing and community building. The Press is proud to serve the state and University of Illinois and the broader scholarly community in advancing the twin goals of scholarly communication and an informed citizenry.

UIP Expands Its Outreach UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS PUBLISHING SYMPOSIUM During the 2021–2022 academic year, the University of Illinois Press continued its series of publishing symposia. The twice-annual events bring together industry professionals, authors, and scholars to discuss aspects of academic publishing. Each symposium featured a pair of 50-minute panels and each reached over 150 participants. Both the Fall and Sping symposia remained online due to the ongoing pandemic.

Joanna Groden, Vice Chancellor for Research at UIC, and Avijit Ghosh, Interim Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs at UIUC, gave welcoming remarks at the fall 2021 and spring 2022 symposia, respectively. Cosponsors of the symposia: the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Institute for the Humanities; the UIUC Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs; the UIUC Humanities Research Institute; and the UIUC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.

FALL PUBLISHING SYMPOSIUM: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 Session 1: Beyond the Monograph Panelists: Elena Rebeca Gutiérrez (chair), associate professor in gender and women’s studies and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and member of the Press faculty board; Zizi Papacharissi, professor and head of the Communication Department and professor of political science at UIC; Nadine Naber, professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and Global Asian Studies Program at UIC; Robert Johnson, professor of history and director of the Teaching of History Program at UIC. The opening session offered advice on how academics can connect with non-scholarly audiences through their writing and other work.

The panelists discussed how to take advantage of media outlets, including social media, to reach new readers and amplify their work; write in other genres; and the influence of new media forms of communication on academic work today.

To watch a recording of the full session, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLn_q7EWNI4

Session 2: New Directions in Marketing Academic Work Panelists: Michelle Sybert (chair), assistant director and head of marketing, sales, and development at the University of Notre Dame Press; Martyn Beeny, marketing and sales director at Cornell University Press; Jocelyn Dawson, journals and collections marketing manager at Duke University Press.

In the publishing session, a group of marketers delved into how they have adjusted to constant changes in market conditions. They provided examples from their experiences finding new platforms and audiences for academic books and journals and laid out ways authors can work with marketing departments. The panelists also examined the pandemic’s effects on the need for digital resources at academic libraries.

To watch a recording of the full session, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Z_ptlxR1U

SPRING PUBLISHING SYMPOSIUM: TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2022 Session 1: Against the Grain: Recognizing and Countering Bias in Scholarly Research Panelists: Isabel Molina-Guzmán (chair), professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at UIUC; Jenifer Barclay, assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo; Toby Beauchamp, associate professor of gender and women’s studies at UIUC; Lisa Elzey Mercer, designer, educator, and researcher in the School for Art + Design at UIUC. The spring event opened with an interdisciplinary panel looking at issues focused on countering bias in research. Taking a nuts-and-bolts approach, the panelists began with how to use antiracist and inclusive frames in developing research questions and topics. The conversation then ranged into weighing sources overlooked or discounted by traditional research methods. In discussing archives, the panelists provided advice on identifying unconventional kinds of archives and how to account for what is missing from the usual archival sources.

To watch a recording of the full session, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3U8pm2jvgs

Session 2: Opening the Blinds: Practicing Inclusive Publishing Panelists: Christie Henry (chair), director of Princeton University Press; Mike Baccam, acquisitions editor at the University of Washington Press; Sara Jo Cohen, senior acquiring editor at the University of Michigan Press; Dominique J. Moore, acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press.

The evening session featured a wide-ranging discussion of how scholarly and university presses have developed antiracist and anti-bias practices in acquisitions, copy editing, design, promotions, and other stages of the book and journal publishing process.

To watch a recording of the full session, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvfQjnMl2iI

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UIP Books Make an Impact This year, several UIP titles appeared in national and regional news outlets. The high-profile articles demonstrate the impact of the scholarship we publish on shaping the understanding of our world and history. Additionally, UIP authors provided critical expertise that added to our understanding of current events and cultural conversations.

Shana Goldin-Perschbacher’s book Queer Country shined a light on the contributions queer and transgender country music artists have made to the genre with interviews in Pitchfork, Southern Review of Books; reviews in Library Journal, Americana UK, Gay and Lesbian Review; and an excerpt on PopMatters. The author also hosted an hour-long program on BBC Radio 6 about queer country.

Ayana Contreras’s book Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago used the power of storytelling to show how optimism and courage fuel the dreams of Black Chicago. The book was the subject of interviews on WBEZ The Reset, WILL The 21st, WTTW Chicago Tonight, and in NewCityLit and the Chicago Defender; reviews in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Magazine; excerpts in Literary Hub and Belt Magazine; and a feature in the Chicago Tribune.

Wazhmah Osman, author of Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists, contributed her expertise and insight after the crisis in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 with an op-ed in the Washington Post Made by History section. The op-ed was picked up by twenty-five other papers around the country, and Osman was interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition.

Ray Long’s political biography of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, The House that Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois’ Velvet Hammer, arrived just as news broke about Madigan’s federal indictment. The author did dozens of interviews, from WTTW’s Chicago Tonight and NPR’s Illinois State Week to WBUR’s Here and Now. An Associated Press article on the book ran in more than eighty regional and national outlets. An excerpt ran in the Chicago Tribune, and reviews of the book appeared in Washington Monthly, the News Gazette, Illinois Times, The Pantagraph, and NewCity.

Dick Simpson’s book, Democracy’s Rebirth: The View from Chicago, called for a revival of our nation’s democracy with interviews in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, WBEZ’s The Reset, Le Monde, WGN, WLS, the Chicago Sun-Times, CBS Chicago, and an event with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot at the Chicago Public Library.

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Scholarly Publishing Collective Launches New Journal Hosting Platform The University of Illinois Press, along with other top rated university presses, has joined the Scholarly Publishing Collective, hosted by Duke University Press. The platform fulfills digital access on behalf of the University of Illinois Press, Michigan State University Press, Penn State University Press, and the Society of Biblical Literature.

“We are excited to be among the founding participants in this venture, which will significantly enhance the impact and reach of our journals on both a national and a global scale,” said Laurie Matheson, director of the University of Illinois Press.

“We look forward to working with our colleagues at Duke University Press in this proactive and visionary initiative.”

By partnering with the SPC, we are excited to be working with a state-of-the-art platform that offers an intuitive interface, full-text HTML and PDF reading formats, and robust supplemental content hosting opportunities, along with the library relations networks and agents that will help our journal titles succeed in a competitive marketplace. The University of Illinois Press is proud to be part of a collective with other UPs that will help extend university press content to greater audiences.

An initiative of Duke University Press

NEW IN OUR JOURNALS PROGRAM

Journal of Finnish Studies

Journal of Finnish Studies The Journal of Finnish Studies (JFS) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that has published scholarly articles about Finland for an international audience since 1997.

JFS publishes the best and most timely articles regarding the study of Finnish and Finnish-­American topics from interdisciplinary and traditional perspectives.

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Italian Americana Italian Americana

Volume 25, Number 1 • 2022

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Journals Highlights

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Italian Americana Cultural and Historical Review

Number Number 1 2 Summer Winter 2021 2021

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Both the editorial team and the editorial board adhere to the Journal of Finnish Studies’ mission: to publish cutting-edge research about topics related to Finland, the Finnish diaspora, and Finnish culture (history, literature, language, art, music, social sciences, political science, and education).

Italian Americana Italian Americana is dedicated to exploring the Italian emigrant/immigrant experience through both scholarly and creative works that explore the topic of Italian Americanness from a wide variety of perspectives. The journal publishes innovative articles by historians, social scientists, literary critics, and visual artists, among others, and also presents original works of fiction, poetry, and memoir. Each issue features a book review section that introduces readers to the most recent contributions to the field of Italian American studies.

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Our Internship Program INTERNS AT WORK UIP’s interns contribute to all areas of the Press. In 2021–2022, this work included essential help with the Press’s new NEH-funded e-books program (see the next page). Interns Jesus Chavez, Ashley Miller, Eyitemi Omatsola, and Gabriella Trani assisted UIP’s Angela Burton with securing rights and permissions and performing other tasks. A number of these e-books have already entered the production process.

Some of our interns during the 2021–2022 school year Jesus Chavez is a sophomore pursuing his Bachelors in consumer economics and finance.

His interests are running, reading, and watching the Fighting Illini basketball team.

Mauricio Jimenez is a recent UIUC graduate who majored in political science and minored in business. His interests include supporting the Chicago Bulls and he hopes to work in intelligence, international security, or compliance. (Journals) Charrice Jones is a senior in the College of Media, where they are majoring in journalism with minors in history and public relations. They are graduating this year, and they like recognizing voice actors in their favorite cartoons. (Marketing) Eyitemi Omatsola (“Temi”) is a graduate student at the College of Law where she is majoring in criminal law. She obtained her law degree in Nigeria in 2018. Her interests include traveling and photography. (NEH grant–Marketing) Aileen Roman is a senior in the College of Liberal Arts and Science with a double major in sociology and gender & women’s studies and a minor in informatics. She enjoys travelling to new places and hopes to visit Europe in the near future. (GWS–Marketing/Acquisitions) Alexis Schmidt is a PhD student in English. She studies turn of the century U.S. literature primarily written by or about women, and her research interests are gender, work, energy, and exhaustion. She is also interested in publishing as a future career and looks forward to learning more while visiting each department as the ’Round the Press intern. (’Round the Press) Gabriella Trani is a junior in journalism with a minor in art history.

She also is interested in theater and astronomy. (Marketing) Madeline Udelhofen is a junior creative writing major and French minor. In her studies, she is largely focusing on poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting. As writer and director, her debut student film The W ­ aiting Room, or Eggs in Purgatory was released during the 2021–2022 school year. (Editorial) Claire Wang is a junior in engineering, where she is majoring in systems engineering with a minor in computer science. In her free time, she likes to play with mechanical keyboards, drink boba, and play Hollow Knight. (Marketing) ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2022

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Spotlight: NEH Grant and Backlist Of the more than 2500 books in print from the University of Illinois Press, only a portion are currently available as e-books. As the global pandemic lockdown made clear, resources available only in print form have limited to no accessibility for many readers.

In October, 2021, UIP received a grant of $199,794 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand its e-books program. These funds will enable UIP to add 200 titles to its e-books list. The funding provides support for: • Salaries for staff and student workers; • Permissions fees to reproduce rights-protected material in e-book form; • Scanning and cleanup of electronic files; • Addition of alt-text descriptions of illustrations to aid print-impaired readers; • Converting books to various e-book formats; • Promoting our expanded e-book catalog.

Director Laurie Matheson developed the grant proposal, in collaboration with Press staff Michael Roux, Kris Ding, Jennifer Comeau, Angela Burton, and Tamara Shidlauski, and with Maria Gillombardo in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at UIUC. The proposal went through a rigorous vetting process at the University of Illinois before moving forward to NEH as the sole representative of the UI System. Angela Burton is the principal investigator for the project, ensuring that we have rights and permissions to proceed with e-book publication, while Tamara Shidlauski coordinates scanning, conversion, and production. Kristina Stonehill leads promotion for the initiative.

Student workers Jesus Chavez, Ashley Miller, Eyitemi Omatsola, and Gabriella Trani provide additional support.

NEH Fellowships Open Books Award The Press is taking part in the NEH Fellowships Open Books Program. This initiative provides funding to university presses to publish open access books of recent scholarship that were developed as part of a prior NEH fellowship. In 2021, the UIP title Photographic Presidents,

by Cara A. Finnegan, was among the winners. Transforming Women’s Education, by Jewel A. Smith, was one of the first twelve awardees in 2020.

The program awards a publisher $5,500 per book to support digitization and marketing for the title and provide a royalty for the author. The NEH will announce the next round of winning projects in March 2023.

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Spotlight: Publishing Partnerships National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize Since 2011, the National Women’s Studies Association and the Press have partnered to award the NWSA/UIP First Book Prize to the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women’s and gender studies.

The nonfiction projects exemplify groundbreaking intersectional feminist scholarship. While open to scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds, the sponsors encourage interdisciplinary work and new perspectives.

Recent winners include SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji (2021), Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera (2021), and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan (2019). In late 2022, the Press will publish The Sexual Politics of Empire by 2015 winner Erin L. Durban. The following spring, we will publish Care Activism, by 2014 winner Ethel Tungohan, and Gender, Race, and Performance Space, by 2017 winner Nicosia M. Shakes. The three titles will be the latest releases in the UIP series NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. Dominique J. Moore acquires books in the series.

Herbert G. Gutman Prize Since 2008, the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) has awarded the Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History. The projects chosen for the award reflect the sponsors’ dedication to the study of working people and their lives. In addition to promoting a diverse and cross-cultural understanding of labor history, the award looks for innovative, theoretically informed, and interdisciplinary approaches.

The Gutman Prize was established in partnership with UIP. Acceptance of the Prize entails publication in the Press’s Working Class in American History series. A list of past award winners is here: http://www.lawcha.org/grants-prizes/.

Alison Syring acquires books in the series.

Acquisitions editor Alison Syring secured the Press’s first grant from Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME). The funding, along with support from University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, permits the open access publication of Vilja Hulden’s new 2023 release The Bosses’ Union. Open access allows any interested reader to download the book for free.

The Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of University Presses have created TOME in 2017. With TOME, the organizations committed to finding a more sustainable way of meeting the costs of publishing scholarly books. Participating colleges and universities commit to providing baseline grants of $15,000 to support the publication of open access books. UIP is one of the more than 60 university presses involved.

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SELECTED AWARD WINNERS Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow,

by Tyrone McKinley Freeman Dan David Prize The Association of Fundraising Professionals/ Skystone Partners Research Prize for Scholarly Work Surrounding Philanthropy of People of Color Terry McAdam Book Award, Alliance for Nonprofit Management

Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication American Journalism Historians Association Book Award

For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938, by Sonia Hernández Philip Taft Labor History Book Award

Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo, by Rachel Afi Quinn

Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema,

by Melanie Bell Best Monograph Prize, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies

Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland, by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett Russell P. Strange Memorial Book of the Year Award, Illinois State Historical Society

Exploring the Land of Lincoln: The Essential Guide to Illinois Historic Sites, by Charles Titus Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society

Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK,

by Matthew Ehrlich Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society

Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists,

by Wazhmah Osman ICA ACJS Outstanding Book Award

Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haitian-Dominican Republic Section, Latin American Studies Association

SELECTED GRANT WINNERS Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU, edited by Luis LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin Supported by the University of British Columbia Scholarly Publication Fund.

Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers, by William C. Banfield Supported by a grant from the Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund.

Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America, by Tara A. Bynum Supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie L. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.

The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, by Erin L. Durban Supported by a grant from the University of Illinois Press Fund for Anthropology.

Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America, by Zev Eleff Supported by a grant from the Winton U. Solberg US History Subvention Fund.

Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozarks Folksong Collector, by Sarah Jane Nelson

Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics, by Carol A. Hess Supported by grants from the Iberian and Latin American Music Fund and the General Publications Fund of the American Musicological Society; supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and from the Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund; supported by the University of California, Davis Office of Research and Letters and Science Dean’s Office.

The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart’s Vienna,

by Dorothea Link Supported by a grant from the General Publications Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children,

by Rose Marshack Supported by a grant from Illinois State University.

Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands, by Linda J. Seligmann Supported in part by the University of Illinois Press Fund for Anthropology.

Supported by a grant from the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.

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New Faces at the Press In September of 2021, Martha Bayne joined the Press as a senior acquisitions editor. Martha comes to the Press with a wide-ranging background in both book publishing, most recently with Cleveland-based Belt Publishing, and journalism, as a longtime newspaper editor and freelance writer in Chicago. In addition to developing the 3 Fields Books regional trade imprint, she is also actively acquiring books in Chicago politics, food, architecture, and natural history.

In April of 2022, Megan Donnan joined the Editorial Department at UIP as the new associate editor. Megan completed her bachelor’s degree in English with a focus in publishing at Illinois State University. After graduation, she worked in the journals department at a local publisher where she gained valuable academic publishing experience. She will work as a project editor and shepherd manuscripts through the editorial stages of the publication process.

In May of 2022, the Press welcomed Damon LaMar as the new IT technical associate. Originally from the Danville, Illinois, area, he earned an associate’s degree in computer programming and web design and his bachelor’s degree in engineering technology. Excited for the opportunity to work with the Press, he is ready to help and eager to learn everything he can to help improve Press staff’s daily work!

Dominique J. Moore joined the Press as an acquisitions editor in February of 2021. She acquires books in American ethnic studies; Black studies; and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Illinois Press. Previously, she worked as an assistant editor at the University of North Carolina Press and was the 2019 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at the Ohio State University Press. She also came to the university press world with three years of publishing experience, working primarily in production. Her academic background includes a BA in English with a minor in gender and women’s studies at UIUC and an MA in African American studies, with a literary focus, from UCLA. In June of 2022, the Press welcomed Gary Smith as assistant to the director. Gary holds an MA in English from Ohio University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky.

Before joining the Press, Gary worked for three years as an editorial and acquisitions assistant at the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. He will be assisting with acquisitions and development while working remotely from his home in central Kentucky.

In April of 2022, Kristina Stonehill joined the UIP marketing department as its inaugural digital marketing manager. Kristina comes from Wayne State University Press where she served as promotions manager and was responsible for publicity, digital marketing and social media management, and author relations. She is thrilled to be at the helm of content creation and online promotion for UIP books and journals, and loves being a part of such a compassionate and collaborative new team. Kristina works remotely from M ­ ichigan.

Michelle Woods began work as the Journals Marketing and Communications Manager in July, 2022. Michelle has an MA in English from the University of Pittsburgh, an Editing Certificate from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Writing (Cum Laude) from Grand Valley State University. Michelle works remotely from Pittsburgh.

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University of Illinois Press Staff Laurie Matheson, Director Gary Smith, Assistant to the Director

ACQUISITIONS EDITORIAL Daniel Nasset, Editor-in-Chief Martha Bayne, Senior Acquisitions Editor Dominique J. Moore, Acquisitions Editor Alison K. Syring, Acquisitions Editor Mariah Schaefer, Assistant Acquisitions Editor

MARKETING AND SALES Michael Roux, Marketing and Sales Manager Angela Burton, Intellectual Property Manager Kevin Cunningham, Copywriter and Catalog Coordinator Heather Gernenz, Senior Publicity Manager Denise Peeler, Information Manager Roberta Sparenberg, Marketing Assistant and Awards Coordinator Kristina Stonehill, Digital Marketing Manager

I.T. DEPARTMENT Damon LaMar, IT Technical Associate

EDITORIAL, DESIGN, AND PRODUCTION

BUSINESS OFFICE

Kris Ding, Production Manager Dustin Hubbart, Art Director Jennifer Argo, Managing Editor Lisa Connery, Desktop Publisher/Coordinator Kirsten Dennison, Desktop Publisher/Coordinator Megan Donnan, Associate Editor Jennie Fisher, Designer Jim Proefrock, Desktop Publisher Tad Ringo, Senior Editor Tamara Shidlauski, Production Coordinator

Alice Ennis, Business Operations and IT Manager Jenn Barbee, Accounts Payable Aaron Clark, Accounts Payable/Royalties Associate Sandra Sullivan, Accounts Receivable

JOURNALS Clydette Wantland, Journals Manager Jeff McArdle, Associate Journals Manager Shelly Bolen, Journals Fulfillment Associate Kristen Dean-Grossmann, Journals Production Editor Kate Kemball, Journals Production Editor Heather Munson, Senior Production Editor Michelle Woods, Journals Marketing and Communications Manager

STUDENT WORKERS AND INTERNS Sofiya Affey, Editorial and Marketing Staff Jesus Chavez, Marketing Staff Miah Emano, Production Staff Pascale Grant, Journals Marketing Mauricio Jimenez, Journals Staff Charrice Jones, Marketing Staff Julia Marsaglia, Marketing Staff Ashley Miller, UIC Graduate Student Intern Eyitemi Omatsola, NEH Grant – Marketing Staff Aileen Roman, Gender and Women Studies Intern Alexis Schmidt, ’Round the Press Intern, Spring 2022 Gabriella Trani, Marketing Staff Madeline Udelhofen, Editorial Staff Claire Wang, Marketing Staff Allison Wasielewski, Marketing Staff

University of Illinois Press Faculty Board URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Antoinette Burton (chair), Director, Humanities Research Institute Christina Bashford, Associate Professor of Musicology Daniel Gilbert, Associate Professor of History Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services & Instruction, University Library Erik S. McDuffie, Associate Professor of African American Studies

SPRINGFIELD

CHICAGO Darius Bost, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Anna Romina Guevarra, Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and Director of the Co-PI, AANAPISI Initiative Elena Gutiérrez, Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies Robert D. Johnston, Professor of History Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Anthropology

Sharon Graf, Professor of Sociology/Anthropology Hinda Seif, Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies and Anthropology

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