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Administration

Craig W. Gill
Director
Areas of acquisitions: music
Series: America's Third Coast; American Made Music
Email: cgill@mississippi.edu

Steven B. Yates
Associate Director/Marketing Director
Sales approaches (all bookstores, wholesalers, online vendors, sales representatives, and global distribution partners)
Email: syates@mississippi.edu

Cynthia Foster
Rights and Contracts Manager
Processes incoming permissions requests; subsidiary rights licensing
Email: cfoster@mississippi.edu

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: cgill@mississippi.edu

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: kkeene@mississippi.edu

Emily Snyder Bandy
Acquisitions Editor
Areas of acquisitions: film; food and foodwayshistory; 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; Race, Rhetoric, and Media; Reframing Hollywood; Television Conversations
Email: ebandy@mississippi.edu

Lisa McMurtray
Acquisitions Editor
Areas of acquisitionsbiography and memoirCaribbean studies; comics studiesethnomusicologywomen's, gender, and sexuality studies
SeriesAtlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora; BiographixCaribbean 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: lmcmurtray@mississippi.edu

Mary Heath
Associate Editor
Areas of acquisitions: folklore; literary studies
Series: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World; Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha; Literary Conversations
Email: mheath@mississippi.edu

Katie Turner
Executive Assistant
Assists Craig W. Gill and Katie E. Keene
Email: kturner@mississippi.edu

Editorial

Shane Stewart
Managing Editor
Manages project editors; guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing
Email: sgong@mississippi.edu

Valerie Jones
Senior Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing; contact for freelance inquiries
Email: vjones@mississippi.edu

Laura Strong
Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing
Email: lstrong@mississippi.edu

Corley Longmire
Associate Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing
Email: clongmire@mississippi.edu

Marketing

Steven B. Yates
Associate Director/Marketing Director
Sales approaches (all bookstores, wholesalers, online vendors, sales representatives, and global distribution partners)
Email: syates@mississippi.edu

Courtney McCreary
Senior Publicity and Promotions Manager
Events and signings; media (including requests for promotional materials); social media; awards; advertising
Email: cmccreary@mississippi.edu

Kathy Burgess
Data Services and Course Adoptions Manager
Metadata oversight, editing, and exporting; course adoption promotions
Email: kburgess@mississippi.edu

Kristin Kirkpatrick
Electronic and Direct-to-Consumer Sales Manager
Website; direct mail promotions; email promotions
Email: kkirkpatrick@mississippi.edu

Joey Brown
Marketing Assistant and Exhibits Coordinator
Exhibits; miscellaneous marketing tasks 
Email: jbrown@mississippi.edu

Rachel Switzer Yancey
Digital Publishing Specialist
Audio books, e-books; print-on-demand books
Email: rswitzer@mississippi.edu

Design and Production

Pete Halverson
Design and Production Manager
Email: phalverson@mississippi.edu

Jennifer Mixon
Senior Book Designer
Email: jmixon@mississippi.edu

Business

Sandy Alexander
Orders, Customer Service, and Accounts Receivable Manager
Customer service; order processing; credit memos; accounts receivable
Email: salexander@mississippi.edu

Denise Magee
Business Associate
Email: dmagee@mississippi.edu

Shonna Horton
Administrative Assistant
Address changes; royalties; accounts payable; W-9s; ACH forms
Email: smhorton@mississippi.edu