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Administration
Craig W. Gill
Director
Areas of acquisitions: music
Series: America's Third Coast; American Made Music
Email: [email protected]
Steven B. Yates
Associate Director/Marketing Director
Sales approaches (all bookstores, wholesalers, online vendors, sales representatives, and global distribution partners)
Email: [email protected]
Cynthia Foster
Rights and Contracts Manager
Processes incoming permissions requests; subsidiary rights licensing
Email: [email protected]
Seetha Srinivasan
Director Emerita
Acquisitions
All of our editors acquire in African American studies, popular culture studies, and regional studies with an emphasis on Mississippi and Louisiana. Please see the specific areas of acquisitions below to determine the best editor to approach.
Craig W. Gill
Director
Areas of acquisitions: music
Series: America's Third Coast; American Made Music; Heritage of Mississippi
Email: [email protected]
Katie E. Keene
Editor-in-Chief
Areas of acquisitions: children's and young adult literature studies; photography; Mississippi, Louisiana, and regional studies
Series: Banner Books; Children's Literature Association; Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty; Cultures of Childhood
Email: [email protected]
Emily Snyder Bandy
Acquisitions Editor
Areas of acquisitions: film; food and foodways; history; media studies; television studies
Series: Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History; Conversations with Filmmakers; Civil Rights in Mississippi; Hollywood Legends; Horror and Monstrosity Studies; Ingrid G. Houck Series in Food and Foodways; Race, Rhetoric, and Media; Reframing Hollywood; Television Conversations
Email: [email protected]
Lisa McMurtray
Acquisitions Editor
Areas of acquisitions: biography and memoir; Caribbean studies; comics studies; ethnomusicology; women's, gender, and sexuality studies
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora; Biographix; Caribbean Studies; Conversations with Comic Artists; Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies; The Tom Inge Series on Comic Artists; Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
Email: [email protected]
Mary Heath
Associate Editor
Areas of acquisitions: folklore; literary studies
Series: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World; Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha; Literary Conversations
Email: [email protected]
Katie Turner
Executive Assistant
Assists Craig W. Gill and Katie E. Keene
Email: [email protected]
Editorial
Shane Stewart
Managing Editor
Manages project editors; guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing
Email: [email protected]
Valerie Jones
Senior Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing; contact for freelance inquiries
Email: [email protected]
Laura Strong
Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing
Email: [email protected]
Corley Longmire
Associate Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing
Email: [email protected]
Marketing
Steven B. Yates
Associate Director/Marketing Director
Sales approaches (all bookstores, wholesalers, online vendors, sales representatives, and global distribution partners)
Email: [email protected]
Courtney McCreary
Senior Publicity and Promotions Manager
Events and signings; media (including requests for promotional materials); social media; awards; advertising
Email: [email protected]
Kathy Burgess
Data Services and Course Adoptions Manager
Metadata oversight, editing, and exporting; course adoption promotions
Email: [email protected]
Kristin Kirkpatrick
Electronic and Direct-to-Consumer Sales Manager
Website; direct mail promotions; email promotions
Email: [email protected]
Joey Brown
Marketing Assistant and Exhibits Coordinator
Exhibits; miscellaneous marketing tasks
Email: [email protected]
Rachel Switzer Yancey
Digital Publishing Specialist
Audio books, e-books; print-on-demand books
Email: [email protected]
Marianna Robbins
Social Media and Advertising Specialist
Email: [email protected]
Design and Production
Pete Halverson
Design and Production Manager
Email: [email protected]
Jennifer Mixon
Senior Book Designer
Email: [email protected]
Cassie Winship
Book Designer
Email: [email protected]
Business
Veronica Smith
Business Manager
Email: [email protected]
Sandy Alexander
Orders, Customer Service, and Accounts Receivable Manager
Customer service; order processing; credit memos; accounts receivable
Email: [email protected]
Denise Magee
Business Associate
Email: [email protected]
Shonna Horton
Administrative Assistant
Address changes; royalties; accounts payable; W-9s; ACH forms
Email: [email protected]
