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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 foodways; history; 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 acquisitions: biography and memoir; Caribbean studies; comics studies; ethnomusicology; women's, gender, and sexuality studies
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora; Biographix; Caribbean 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
Michael Martella
Acquisitions Assistant
Assists Emily Snyder Bandy and Lisa McMurtray
Email: mmartella@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
Jordan Nettles Rueff
Publicity and Promotions Manager
Events and signings; media (including requests for promotional materials); social media; awards; advertising
Email: jnettles@mississippi.edu
Joey Brown
Marketing Assistant and Exhibits Coordinator
Exhibits; miscellaneous marketing tasks
Email: jbrown@mississippi.edu
Rachel Switzer
Digital Publishing Specialist
Audio books, e-books; print-on-demand books
Email: rswitzer@mississippi.edu
Design and Production
Todd Lape
Assistant Director/Production and Design Manager
Email: tlape@mississippi.edu
Pete Halverson
Assistant Production Manager/Senior Book Designer
Email: phalverson@mississippi.edu
Jennifer Mixon
Book Designer
Email: jmixon@mississippi.edu
Business
Tonia Lonie
Chief Financial Officer
Email: tlonie@mississippi.edu
Sandy Alexander
Orders, Customer Service, and Accounts Receivable Manager
Customer service; order processing; credit memos; accounts receivable
Email: salexander@mississippi.edu
Shonna Horton
Administrative Assistant
Address changes; royalties; accounts payable; W-9s; ACH forms
Email: smhorton@mississippi.edu
