A Ferris and Ferris Book

The University of North Carolina Press is proud to publish books under the Marcie Cohen Ferris and William R. Ferris Imprint for high-profile, general-interest books about the American South and its impact beyond the region. Ferris and Ferris Books are supported by a multimillion-dollar endowment completed in 2020 by friends in honor of the Ferrises. 

Bill Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris, the namesakes of the imprint, have a long-running connection with the Press. Their collective work and interests in the South are as expansive and diverse as the region itself. 

William R. Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris (photo by Donn Young)

Marcie Cohen Ferris is professor emerita of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and past president of the board of directors of the Southern Foodways Alliance, which honored her with its 2018 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award. Marcie’s UNC Press publications include the James Beard Foundation Award nominee Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (2005), The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region (2016), and Edible North Carolina: A Journey across a State of Flavor (2022). 

Bill Ferris is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also served until retirement as associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South. He previously served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a two-time Grammy Award winner. Bill’s UNC Press publications include the Pulitzer Prize–nominated Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, coedited by Charles Reagan Wilson (1989); Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (2009); The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 14: Folklife, coedited by Glenn Hinson (2012); The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists (2013); and The South in Color: A Visual Journal (2016). 

The Press typically publishes two to three books annually under the Ferris and Ferris Books imprint. 

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