S2E7 Debbie Gershenowitz - University of North Carolina Press

Debbie Gershenowitz is an executive editor at the University of North Carolina Press, where she both acquires and edits manuscripts. It is worth mentioning that Debbie works out of UNC's “northern office” in NYC. Debbie earned a BA in History from Clark University and an MA in the same discipline at Indiana University. Her historical interests are extensive, and include but are not limited to black history, borderlands, military history, women, gender, and sexualities, and Latinx history. She favors bottom-up histories that give voice to underrepresented people and institutions. Debbie oversees four series at Chapel Hill, including the New Cold War History series.

Before joining UNC press in 2019, Debbie spent more than seven years as Senior Acquisitions Editor for American and Latin American History at Cambridge University Press after serving Senior Editor in History & Law at NYU Press for ten years. She also served as an acquisitions editor for Palgrave MacMillan’s History list and was a reference editor for Scribner. Debbie started her career working in journals, first at the American Historical Review, then with Perspective Publishing in the UK.

If you are an academic, you have likely seen Debbie at one of the many conferences she attends each year, and she also provides a great service to our profession by frequently participating in publishing roundtables at conferences around the country. Debbie has played a tremendous role in shaping military history published by university presses, and we are excited to hear what she has to say about the academic press business. Pay close attention - Big 10 expansion, David Bowie, the Hartford Whalers, and Brooklyn hipsters sneak into the conversation!

Rec.: 07/11/2022