UNC Press editors strongly prefer to receive initial inquiries and proposals electronically. We do not accept editorial inquiries by telephone, and unsolicited telephone inquiries will not be returned. Learn more about our editorial program.
Acquisitions staff are listed alphabetically below. Visit the editors’ individual pages to learn more about them, and the subject areas they acquire.
Thomas Bedenbaugh, Assistant Editor
Assists Lucas Church
Alyssa Brown, Acquisitions Coordinator
Lucas Church, Executive Editor
Humanities and social sciences, especially sociology, literary studies; regional general interest, including books about music, literature, arts and architecture, nature and the outdoors; literary nonfiction; and southern studies
Dawn Durante, Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director
US history (especially after 1900), African American history and African American studies, Black feminist studies, women’s history, girlhood studies, carceral studies
Andreina Fernandez, Editor
American studies, gender and sexuality studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, critical race and ethnic studies
Kerinna Good, Acquisitions Assistant
Assists Dawn Durante and Andreina Fernandez
Cate Hodorowicz, Senior Editor
Religious studies and religious history; Western, borderlands, and labor histories; food studies; literary nonfiction; regional/Southern studies
Tara Jordan, Acquisitions Assistant
Assists Cate Hodorowicz and Andrew Winters
Andrew Kinney, William Hodding Carter III Executive Editor
US history, political history, military history, international and global history
Sandra Korn, Editor
Labor history, history of science and medicine, environmental history, and urban history
Emily Spangenberg, Acquisitions Assistant
Andrew Winters, Editor
US history, especially cultural history and African American history; performance studies
Mark Simpson-Vos, Editor-at-Large for Civil War
American Civil War era history and culture