SUNY PRESS - Key Persons


Anthony J. Connors

Job Titles:
  • Editor of the First Volume of Conflicts
Anthony J. Connors is an independent historian and the editor of the first volume of Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia. He lives in Westport, Massachusetts.

Bruce A. Castleman

Bruce A. Castleman served in the US Navy for twenty-four years and held the rank of Commander at the time of his retirement. He then trained as a historian and lectured in history at San Diego State University. He is the author of Building the King's Highway: Labor, Society, and Family on Mexico's Caminos Reales, 1757-1804.

Daniel McShane

Job Titles:
  • Digital Operations Manager

Diane Ganeles

Job Titles:
  • Senior Production Editor

Eileen Nizer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Production Editor

Frank J. Coppa

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Frank J. Coppa is Professor of History at St. Johns University.

George Alfred James

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas
George Alfred James is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Interpreting Religion: The Phenomenological Approaches of Pierre Daniƫl Chantepie de la Saussaye, W. Brede Kristensen, and Gerardus van der Leeuw and the editor of Ethical Perspectives on Environmental Issues in India.

Herbert C. Hallas

Herbert C. Hallas is a retired high school teacher and lawyer. He lives on Long Island.

James Peltz

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief

Jenn Bennett-Genthner

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Training, Development & Services

Julia Cosacchi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Manuscript Editor

Julia M. Allen

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Julia M. Allen is Professor Emerita of English at Sonoma State University.

Kate Seburyamo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Marketing Manager

Margaret Hope Bacon

Margaret Hope Bacon is an independent scholar and the author of many books, including Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott and Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist, also published by SUNY Press.

Marlene Pratt

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • ADMINISTRATION

Michael Campochiaro

Job Titles:
  • Senior Marketing Manager

Michael D. Barber

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University
Michael D. Barber is Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University and the author of several books, including Equality and Diversity: Phenomenological Investigations of Prejudice and Discrimination.

Michelle Alamillo

Job Titles:
  • Promotions Manager

Mike Rinella

Job Titles:
  • Senior Acquisitions Editor

Millicent Bell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of English at Brown University
Millicent Bell is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. She has also had a career in journalism and editing. She held jobs as reporter and feature writer for the Savannah Evening Press, the Toledo Blade, and the Philadelphia Record, and was Associate Editor of Architectural Forum. Her writings have appeared in such publications as PMLA, American Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Yale Library Gazette, Emerson Society Quarterly, and Modern Language Notes.

Paul Cushman

Job Titles:
  • Retired Internal Medicine Physician
Paul Cushman is a retired internal medicine physician. A graduate of Yale University (1951) and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (1955), he devoted his medical talents to the field of endocrinology as well as the clinical, pharmacological, and neuroscience aspects of substance abuse medicine. He served on the faculty of five medical schools, usually as full professor of medicine, pharmacology, and psychiatry. Since retirement his interests have included historical research on the achievements of several ancestors, including Paul Cushman, an Albany, New York potter (1767-1833); William Gilbert, a New York silversmith and civil servant (1746-1831); and now Richard Varick (1753-1831). An avid bridge player, he also enjoys travel and savoring the visual and performing arts with his wife of fifty years, with whom he lives in New York City.

Rebecca Colesworthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Acquisitions Editor

Renee Jones

Job Titles:
  • Digital and Sales Assistant

Richard Carlin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Acquisitions Editor

Robert Newdick

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ryan Morris

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Editorial, Design & Production

Sally Benson

Job Titles:
  • Writer of New Yorker

Sharla Clute

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Business Manager

Tanja Eise

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Sales