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The Newsletter of the University of Georgia Press
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spring | summer 15
issue no. 14
A view of ruined buildings from J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher’s new book Lens of War.
from the director
Friends,
I never tire of opening each new Press
catalog to rediscover the upcoming season of
books. The cover of our spring 2015 catalog features a striking watercolor by English naturalist Mark Catesby. Along with William Bartram,
André Michaux, and John Abbot, Catesby
recorded his discoveries in art and journals and
is himself discovered anew in The Curious Mister Catesby (April). To mark the final year
of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher have asked
twenty-seven scholars to reflect on their favorite images in original essays, all of which are
presented in Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (April). The
season also includes an exquisitely moving memoir about love and grief from Judith Ortiz
Cofer (March) and the powerful autobiography of pioneering journalist Alice Dunnigan,
the first black woman to report from the White House in the age of Jim Crow (February).
Our many fans of the coast will appreciate Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: An Intimate
Natural History of Coastal Georgia by Evelyn Sherr (May) and Coming to Pass, Susan
Cerulean’s meditation on the fragile Florida Gulf Coast Islands (April). Georgia’s notorious
“three governors” episode is examined with fresh eyes in The Three Governors Controversy (May), and Angela Jill Cooley looks at racial segregation and public eating places in To
Live and Dine in Dixie (May), the newest title in the Southern Foodways Alliance Studies
in Culture, People, and Place series.
These are but a few of the carefully selected offerings you’ll see from the Press in the
coming months. If you aren’t receiving our catalog, let me know (lbayer@uga.edu) and I’ll
send you one. As always, we couldn’t do what we do without your generous interest in our
mission to publish the finest scholarship in support of the research mission of the University of Georgia. Thank you.
Lisa Bayer, Director
Welcome Our New Advisory Council Members
dan nadenicek is the dean of the College of
Environment and Design at the University of Georgia, where
he also holds the Draper Chair in Landscape Architecture.
He also serves on and is president of the board of directors of
the Library of American Landscape History (LALH). Dan’s
forthcoming book, Destiny’s Burden: Frederick Billings and
Nineteenth-Century Land Planning, will be copublished by
LALH and the UGA Press.
dink nesmith, a 1970 graduate of the University of Georgia’s
Grady College, is a Jesup native. He is the co-owner of Athensbased Community Newspapers Inc. and publisher of more than
thirty newspapers in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. He
is a past president of Leadership Georgia, the Georgia Press
Association, and UGA’s alumni association. Dink is also a past
chairman of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents,
the Richard B. Russell Foundation, and the Georgia Public
Telecommunications Commission and current advisory board
chairman of the J. W. Fanning Leadership Institute.
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advisory council
Mr. Craig Barrow III, Chair
Savannah, GA
Mrs. Peggy H. Galis, Vice Chair
Athens, GA
Mr. Frederick L. Allen III
Atlanta, GA
The Honorable Roy E. Barnes
Marietta, GA
Mr. Peter M. Candler
Greensboro, GA
Mr. J. Wiley Ellis
Savannah, GA
Mrs. Katharine E. Elsas
The Council
Atlanta, GA
acts as a group of
Mrs. Candace Gilliland
stewards for the
Athens, GA
Press, promoting
Dr. Nancy L. Grayson
our publishing
Athens, GA
program and
Mr. F. Sheffield Hale
assisting in fundAtlanta, GA
raising efforts.
Mr. H. Edward Hales Jr.
Atlanta, GA
Mrs. Marian W. Hill
Atlanta, GA
Mr. Thomas D. Hills
Atlanta, GA
Mr. Philip M. Juras
Athens, GA
Dr. Charles B. Knapp
Big Canoe, GA
Mrs. Fran J. Lane
Athens, GA
Mrs. Rebecca D. Lang
Athens, GA
Dr. M. Louise McBee
Athens, GA
Mr. H. Bruce McEver
New York, NY
Mr. Richard Meyer III
Savannah, GA
Dean Daniel J. Nadenicek
Athens, GA
Mr. William NeSmith Jr.
Athens, GA
Ms. Merryll S. Penson
Athens, GA
Dr. Paul M. Pressly
Savannah, GA
Mrs. Sarah V. Ross
Roaring Gap, SC
Mrs. Henrietta M. Singletary
Albany, GA
Mr. Charles M. Tarver
Bluffton, SC
The Honorable R. Lindsay Thomas
Screven, GA
Mr. B. Neely Young
Marietta, GA
Mr. Kelly Kerner, Ex officio
Athens, GA
Dr. Steve W. Wrigley, Ex officio
Athens, GA
behind the book
By Katherine LaMantia,
Acquisitions and
Marketing Intern
The Curious Mister Catesby
If you are ever in London, taking a small
rest from your day of sight-seeing to sit on a
bench across from Big Ben while regaining
your energy, you might notice something: the
trees. David J. Elliot, one of the editors of The
Curious Mister Catesby, calls these trees
“the finest sight in London in the summer”
and “Catesby’s gift to gardeners throughout
the temperate world.”
Mark Catesby discovered the catalpa tree
on one of his sojourns to the southern United
States and sent its seeds, along with others,
back to friends in England. The catalpa, a
tree that never before grew anywhere outside of southern North America, flourished
across an ocean. With heart-shaped leaves
and white flowers, the catalpa is the perfect
shade tree, and this earns it a place in many a
garden, including right in the heart of London
next to a bench across from Big Ben.
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Mark Catesby’s work as a pioneering naturalist has had a wide, unrecognized influence. Elliot hopes this
book will be a means for “increasing
awareness of Catesby’s importance as a
‘truly ingenious’ naturalist whose work
benefits us today and into the future.”
The Curious Mister Catesby constitutes the most comprehensive study of
Mark Catesby’s life and work to date and
fills what has until now been a gap in the
Catesby narrative.
Catesby’s illustrations of North
American flora and fauna speak to the
sense of curiosity and tenderness with
which he regarded the landscape of
North America. About his favorite of
Catesby’s illustrations—that of a green
lynx spider and a green tree frog—
coeditor E. Charles Nelson says that he
enjoys most Catesby’s “sense of humour,
the story concealed in the etching, and
the extraordinary sense of design.” The
Mark Catesby presented in The Curious
Mister Catesby is a man who has never
been explored in such depth. A follow-up
to the documentary of the same name
produced by the Catesby Commemorative Trust that debuted two years ago,
the twenty-two essays and accompa-
nying notes in this richly illustrated
volume tell the story of a man who was
adventurous, meticulous, and above all,
insatiably curious.
the curious mister catesby
A “Truly Ingenious” Naturalist
Explores New Worlds
Edited for the Catesby
Commemorative Trust
by E. Charles Nelson
and David J. Elliot
available march 2015
cloth, $49.95 | 978-0-8203-4726-4
to order
phone: 800-266-5842
fax: 706-425-3061
email: books@uga.edu
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partnership highlight
By Elizabeth C. Crowley,
Development Coordinator
The Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta
History Center,
founded in 1926
and situated
on thirty-three
acres in historic
Buckhead, is one
of the country’s premier history centers.
A natural ally of the University of Georgia
Press, the Center aims to engage the citizens and friends of Atlanta in the history
of the city, region, and world. One way it
accomplishes this mission is by copublishing influential and highly relevant
projects with the Press.
Over the years, the Press and the
Atlanta History Center have partnered
on eleven publications, beginning with
the first two volumes of Atlanta and
Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and
Events by Franklin M. Garrett in 1969.
Volume 3, by Harold H. Martin, followed
in 1987.
Our most recent collaboration is
Confederate Odyssey: The George W.
Wray Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center. Written by Gordon
L. Jones, the Center’s senior military historian and curator, Confederate Odyssey
is a richly illustrated story of the South’s
war effort told through one of the world’s
finest collections of its artifacts. Readers
can view the Wray collection in person
through May 15, 2015, at the Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road
Northwest.
atlanta and environs, 1820s–1870s
a dream takes flight
neat pieces
Franklin M. Garrett
Hartsfield Atlanta International
Airport and Aviation in Atlanta
Betsy Braden and Paul Hagan
The Plain-Style Furniture of
Nineteenth-Century Georgia
Atlanta History Center
With a new foreword by Deanne D. Levison
paper, $64.95 | 978-0-8203-3903-0
1969
atlanta and environs, 1880s–1930s
Franklin M. Garrett
out of print
1989
paper, $40.95 | 978-0-8203-2805-8
2006
paper, $64.95 | 978-0-8203-3905-4
shaping traditions
1969
Folk Arts in a Changing South
John A. Burrison
Object and Gallery Photography
by William F. Hull
peachtree creek
paper, $25.95 | 978-0-8203-2150-9
cloth, $36.95 | 978-0-8203-2929-1
2000
2007
living atlanta
henri jova, a classical intermezzo
An Oral History of the City, 1914–1948
Clifford M. Kuhn, Harlon E. Joye,
and E. Bernard West
Foreword by Michael L. Lomax
An Architect’s Life
David Roland Rinehart
Foreword by Stanley Abercrombie
paper, $25.95 | 978-0-8203-1697-0
2009
atlanta and environs, 1940s–1970s
Harold H. Martin
paper, $59.95 | 978-0-8203-3907-8
1987
the american south in
the twentieth century
Edited by Craig S. Pascoe, Karen Trahan
Leathem, and Andy Ambrose
out of print
1989
2005
A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta’s
Watershed
David R. Kaufman
cloth, $50.00 | 978-1-883828-02-8
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development news
by Chantel Dunham, Director of Development
The University of Georgia Press
is the oldest and largest publisher in the
state, releasing over sixty new titles annually. Many publishers and university
presses have been struggling
in the changing world of publishing. Yet
the UGA Press is thriving, in part due to
the innovative leadership of Lisa Bayer,
who became director in 2012. In addition
to empowering her staff and building a
dynamic team, currently twenty-six
strong, Lisa has developed many statewide collaborative partnerships that
strengthen the Press’s reach and its
publishing power.
The Press has also established creative and successful methods to provide
financial support for several of its highly
regarded series and emerging areas of
scholarship. The Wormsloe Nature Fund
and the Sarah Mills Hodge Fund were
established through private gifts and are
self-sustaining and growing. Both funds
have shown over 100 percent return on
initial investment, allowing the Press to
continue to publish the highest quality
scholarship on natural history
and African American history, culture,
and literature, with an emphasis on
Georgia’s coast.
Other investors have provided gifts
in support of specific book projects, and
we want to thank a few: Craig and Diana
Barrow for their support of the reprint of
Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier;
the Atlanta History Center for Confederate Odyssey: The George W. Wray
Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta
History Center; the Honorable Doctor
Louise McBee, who generously supported
Tennessee Women: Their Lives and
Times, vol. 2; and the Georgia Humanities Council for their support of a statewide book tour for the authors of Georgia
Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 2.
Annual gifts to our Friends Fund
have helped us to publish Island Time:
An Illustrated History of St. Simons
Island, Georgia; Cornbread Nation 7;
and the upcoming Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War,
among others.
While partnerships and gifts are
invaluable, book sales account for 70 percent of the Press’s annual budget. We have
a diverse selection of books for a wide
range of interests. Thank you for your
support and interest.
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author q&a
By Beth Snead,
Assistant Acquisitions Editor
Sharing the Earth by Elizabeth Ammons and Modhumita Roy
Can you talk a bit about what makes environmental justice such a timely issue?
It’s hard to pick up a newspaper or listen
to a news outlet and not run into a report
about people in poor communities or
communities of people of color being
disproportionately impacted by negative
environmental events caused by such
things as climate change or exploitative
industrialization or toxic dumping or
unhealthy agricultural work. The literature in Sharing the Earth gives a global
perspective on this reality, showing that
people around the world have been naming and resisting these injustices and are
continuing to do so today.
How did the idea for this book come about?
Although excellent research and scholarship about environmental injustice is
available, this is the first volume entirely
devoted to creative work addressing the
issues and offering visions of positive
change. As faculty members who teach
courses on environmental justice, we, like
many others, had been assembling our
own course booklets, so we think Sharing the Earth fills an important need. It
not only provides a wide-ranging selection of texts in one volume but also brings
together U.S. and international issues,
voices, and perspectives in one place.
What challenges did you face in compiling it?
The abundance of material to
choose from!
Literature—poetry, fiction, personal
narratives, essays, group-authored statements—brings the issues alive intellectually, but it also engages readers emotionally and ethically. We think that makes
What do you want readers to take away
from this book?
We titled the last section of Sharing the
Earth “A World to Win.” There we bring
together pieces that provide advice and
encouragement about activism. We hope
people will take away a sense of empowerment and a commitment to action. In
fact, the premise of the entire volume is
that people as individuals and working
together can create a more just and environmentally healthy world.
What gives you optimism that the environmental justice movement will achieve
fundamental change to create a more just
and sustainable world?
All kinds of signs give us hope. We see
now regular reports in the media—
discussions, debates, books being reviewed in major outlets—that show how
EJ is in the forefront of our consciousness. There are local as well as global
movements for food justice, experimental
sustainability, and unionizing of workers
in low-paid, often dangerous work. Here
in Boston, for instance, Alternatives for
Community and Environment (ACE),
an urban nonprofit consisting primarily
of people of color, has been working for
several years in the community with great
success. They’ve called attention to brown
fields that are now being cleaned up, and
they’ve led a highly successful campaign
against bus idling that was pouring large
amounts of toxins into the neighborhood’s air. We take our students on a field
trip each year to visit ACE, which they
consistently find inspirational. And the
kind of work ACE is doing is being done
around the world in all different ways,
often led by women, as is typical of EJ efforts, and often enthusiastically embraced
by young people. That’s a primary source
of our optimism and one reason we’ve put
this anthology together. In our experience young people are eager to address EJ
issues, and they find the kind of information, ideas, and examples that Sharing the
Earth contains especially helpful
and encouraging.
elizabeth ammons is Harriet H. Fay
Professor of Literature at Tufts University, where she teaches courses on
Environmental Justice and U.S. literature and American Indian writers. She is
the author or editor of numerous titles,
including Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet.
modhumita roy is an associate
professor of English at Tufts University,
where she teaches courses on non-Western women writers and postcolonial
theory and fiction. She is the author of
many essays on empire, culture, and
social justice issues.
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Photo by Alonso Nichols
In the volume’s introduction, you emphasize
the importance of literature in the struggle
for environmental justice. Can you elaborate
on that idea?
Sharing the Earth particularly powerful
and important. Unless people care about
what’s happening, change won’t take
place. Literature, we believe, does the
work of making people care.
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featured events
feb. 25 – feb. 27
Study in Perfect
Gertrude and Harold Vanderbilt
Visiting Writers Series
Two-day event featuring
author Sarah Gorham
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
feb. 25
Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the
National Black Press
Panel discussion with editor Carol McCabe Booker (in conjunction with James
McGrath Morris)
National Press Club
6:30 p.m. Washington, D.C.
recent awards
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson,
and Andrew Burridge
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Association for Borderland Studies
Cold War Dixie
Militarization and Modernization
in the American South
Kari Frederickson
winner: Bennett H. Wall Award
Southern Historical Association
Chattahoochee River User’s Guide
Joe Cook
winner: Outdoor Adventure Guidebook
category, National Outdoor Book Awards
The Dance Boots
Linda LeGarde Grover
winner: One Book, One Community Award,
Duluth Minnesota Public Library
feb. 26
The Willson Center’s
Global Georgia Initiative
Cornbread Nation 7
Talk and signing with
series editor John T. Edge
University of Georgia Chapel
4:00 p.m. Athens, Georgia
march 4
Georgia Women: Their Lives and
Times, volume 2
Keynote address featuring editors Ann
Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia
march 5
Georgia Women: Their Lives and
Times, volume 2
Talk and signing with editors Ann Short
Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark
2015 Georgia Women of Achievement
Induction Ceremony and Luncheon
Wesleyan College
10:30 a.m. Macon, Georgia
Johnny Mercer
Southern Songwriter for the World
Glenn T. Eskew
winner: Excellence Using the Holdings of
an Archives, Georgia Historical Records
Advisory Committee
winner: Outstanding Academic Title,
Choice Magazine
The Small Heart of Things
Being at Home in a Beckoning World
Julian Hoffman
winner: Natural History category
National Outdoor Book Awards
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Edited by Leslie M. Harris and
Daina Ramey Berry
winner: Excellence Using the Holdings of
an Archives, Georgia Historical Records
Advisory Committee
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march 13
Honest Engine
Reading and signing with
author Kyle Dargan
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café
Boulder, Colorado
march 20
Bright Shards of Someplace Else
Reading and signing with
author Monica McFawn
Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan
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Fallen Forests
Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American
Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1934
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winner: Outstanding Academic Title,
Choice Magazine
Cold War Dixie
Militarization and Modernization
in the American South
Kari Frederickson
winner: Outstanding Academic Title,
Choice Magazine
Visible Man
The Life of Henry Dumas
Jeffrey B. Leak
winner: Outstanding Academic Title,
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america’s corporal
“[An] outstanding stud[y] of
life after battle. . . . Mr. Marten
focuses on James Tanner, a
double amputee who vaulted
into prominence when he was
drafted on the spot to take the
testimony of the witnesses
to Lincoln’s assassination
and who eventually became a
spokesman for disabled veterans.”—Wall Street Journal
bright shards of
someplace else
“Bursts of insight illuminate
these carefully crafted tales;
McFawn somehow wrenches
the deepest humanity out of
even the most unlikable characters.”—Publishers Weekly
“McFawn has talent. In these 11
stories she manages to range
from fantastic to satiric to
poignant.”—NPR Books
faulty predictions
“The 10 luminous stories in
Lin-Greenberg’s masterful
collection are united by her
examination of the various and
devious ways people try to put
things into perspective. . . . A
winner of the coveted Flannery
O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Lin-Greenberg deservedly
joins such past recipients as Ha
Jin, Kellie Wells, and Antonya
Nelson as she offers a piquant
look at life’s bittersweet moments.”—Booklist
cornbread nation 7
“‘Love’ and ‘home’ (including
homes far from the South)
show up more than once in
this book, but please don’t fear
Crock-Pots of sentimentality.
The subject—this great complicated subject of Southern
food, Southern food history and
chefs, the habits and humor
and rules that go in and around
and behind our food—is here
described and analyzed and eulogized by some of the South’s
finest writers.”—Garden & Gun
attended to, from the project
level to the sentence level. The
cover is serene and appealing;
it echoes perfectly the calm,
reflective tone of the book.”
—ForeWord Reviews
“This superb collection from
Gorham, author of poetry collections (Bad Daughter) and
Sarabande Books’s editor-inchief, exemplifies the best in
creative nonfiction. . . . The
prose is simple—the very opposite of acrobatic—yet also
surprising, fresh, and rhythmic.
. . . No collection is perfect . . .
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but this book comes gloriously
“This book is not for those seeking a quick read or a photo-filled close.”—Publisher’s Weekly
(starred review)
tome, but for a fresh perspective on the meeting of literature the larder
and film, look no further. . . . A
“[The Larder] is dedicated to
must for anyone interested in
setting the historical record
seeing the connections between straight and to probing the illufilm adaptations and quintessions propagated by Southern
sential Capote literature.”
food evangelists.”—Times
—Library Journal
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courthouses of georgia
“Organized by the nine travel regions of Georgia, the book offers
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for historic preservation.”
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hog meat and hoecake
“Hog Meat and Hoecake points
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forced to hunt, forage and beg
study in perfect
in order to augment minimal ra“Study in Perfect is a welltions
of pork and corn.”—Times
curated essay collection that exLiterary Supplement
amines the breadth and depth
of the ideal of perfection
. . . . Every detail has been
island time
“From sunrises over the ocean
to sunsets over the salt marshes,
to native plants, flowers, and
trees, to majestic live oaks
draped with funereal Spanish moss, Galland’s imagery
alone is well worth the price of
the book. With Jingle Davis’s
outstanding narrative, Island
Time belongs in the collection
of any enthusiast of the coast.”
—Georgia Historical Quarterly
chattahoochee river
user’s guide
“With more than 200 photos, 32
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slavery and freedom
in savannah
“Ultimately, this collection of
essays, organized in a textbookstyle fashion, provides readers
with a fundamental understanding of urban slavery and
its impact on the antebellum
South. Highly recommended.”
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series news
By Patrick Allen,
Acquisitions Editor
Critical Studies in the History of Environmental Design series with the Library of American Landscape History
The Press is pleased to announce
a new publishing partnership with the
Library of American Landscape History, with whom we’ll collaborate on the
Critical Studies in the History of Environmental Design series. Books in the
series might examine a place (or places),
a designer (or designers), other historical
figures important to the history of envi-
uga press staff
administrative
Lisa Bayer, Director
Chantel Dunham, Director of Development
Elizabeth Crowley, Asst. to the Director &
Development Coordinator
Jordan Stepp, Intellectual Property Manager
acquisitions
Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Asst. Director &
Editor-in-Chief
Walter Biggins, Sr. Acquisitions Editor
Patrick Allen, Acquisitions Editor
Beth Snead, Asst. Acquisitions Editor
Elizabeth Crowley, Editorial Asst.
marketing
David Des Jardines, Director of Marketing &
Digital Initiatives
Amanda E. Sharp, Asst. Marketing Manager
for Publicity and Sales
Jason Bennett, Direct Mail Manager
Christina Cotter, Exhibits & Awards Manager
Jacqueline Baxter, Marketing Designer &
Advertising Manager
ronmental design, a significant theme
or movement revealed and understood
by analyzing the design of places, or an
assessment of historical literature on
the subject. While the focus is on the
United States, international linkages and
the evolution and transference of ideas
through time and space are considered
important to the American story.
Series editor and LALH president,
Daniel J. Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment and Design at UGA,
agrees. “Because of the absolute necessity
of sustainable living in the future, the
new series is particularly timely. Its goal
is to foster a cross-disciplinary dialogue
about the relationship of humans to nature, influencing the decisions we make
editorial, design, & production
and the places we design today.”
Robin Karson, executive director of
LALH, sees a strong alliance in the collaboration. “We look forward to a partnership that builds on UGA’s publications
on the environment and LALH’s growing
commitment to scholarship in the field.”
The mission of the Library of American Landscape History is to increase
the understanding of North America’s
richly varied landscape heritage through
books, exhibitions, and online resources.
Founded in 1992, the Amherst, Massachusetts, based group is the only nonprofit organization in the world devoted
to publishing in the field of American
landscape history.
faculty editorial board
Jon Davies, Asst. Director for Editorial,
Design, & Production
Melissa Buchanan, Asst. Editorial, Design,
& Production Manager
John Joerschke, Project Editor
Erin New, Sr. Designer & Art Director
Kaelin Broaddus, Sr. Designer &
Production Manager
Rebecca Norton, Production Editor
Kathi Morgan, Special Projects
Production Manager
Nicholas Allen | Director, Willson Center; Franklin
Professor of English
business & distribution
Barbara McCaskill | Associate Professor of English;
Codirector, Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative
Phyllis Wells, Asst. Director &
Business Manager
Marena Smith, Sr. Accountant
Stacey Hayes, Accounts Payable
& Permissions Manager
Jeri Headrick, Distribution Center Manager
Betty Downer, Customer Service &
Accounting Asst.
Pam Bond, Administrative & Shipping Clerk
Mark Jenkins, Shipping Clerk
Anna Joerschke, Clerical Asst.
the new georgia encyclopedia
John Inscoe, Editor
Kelly Caudle, Project Director & Managing Editor
Sarah McKee, Project Editor
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Alan Covich | Professor of Ecology
Cynthia Dillard | Mary Frances Early Professor
of Teacher Education
Loch K. Johnson | Regents Professor of Public and
International Affairs; Josiah Meigs Distinguished
Teaching Professor
Hilda E. Kurtz | Associate Professor of Geography
Hugh Ruppersburg | University Professor; Sr. Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences; Professor of English
Claudio Saunt | Professor and Department Head of
History; Richard B. Russell Professor in American History; Associate Director, Institute of Native American
Studies; Codirector, Center for Virtual History
Brian J. LaHaie | Associate Professor of
Environment and Design
Stefanie A. Lindquist | Dean, School of Public and
International Affairs
Ron Baxter Miller | Interim Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights
Studies; Professor of English; Professor, Institute for
African American Studies
Susan Mattern | Professor of History
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UGA Press and UGA
By Erin K. New, Art Director and Designer
The Press recently collaborated
on a book-design project with students
from Advertising and Public Relations
in the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Twenty students from Kristen Smith’s
advanced graphics class visited the
Press in October. They were given information about several backlist books
whose cover designs needed updating. Art director Erin New briefed the
students on the basics of book cover
design and later participated in the
class critique.
The students tackled the project
with imagination and resourcefulness.
They handled typographic challenges,
conducted art research, and in some
cases created their own illustrations.
After reviewing the students’ work,
the Press chose to use designs by
Savannah Colbert, Michaela DeRosa,
Elizabeth Elliott, and Leila Choucair.
The project introduced students to
the world of book design and provided
them with the opportunity to have a
real-world project in their portfolio.
The result of this collaboration is four
fresh new looks for formerly out-ofprint books.
Emmy Feinberg
design & production
Katherine La Mantia
acquisitions
Karen Sesterhenn
editorial
Frannie Gordon
acquisitions
Jacqueline Leftwich
design & production
Abby Spasser
acquisitions
“A project like this takes energy, and
the staff at the Press was generous
with their time and serious about the
educational mission of the university,”
Smith said. “This kind of collaboration
is great real-world experience for
our students. I’m thrilled that these
students have professional work in their
portfolios prior to graduation.”
Anna Nordnes Helgoy
marketing
Hannah Pap Rocki
editorial
Elaine Elliott
marketing
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