UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI - Key Persons


Ashley Baggett

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of History at North Dakota State University
Ashley Baggett is assistant professor of history at North Dakota State University. She is also affiliate faculty in the women and gender studies program and associate faculty in the School of Education at NDSU.

Corley Longmire

Job Titles:
  • Associate Project Editor

Courtney McCreary

Job Titles:
  • Senior Publicity and Promotions Manager / Events and Signings Media ( Including Requests for Promotional Materials ) Social Media Awards Advertising
Events and signings; media (including requests for promotional materials); social media; awards; advertising

Craig W. Gill

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Administration

Cynthia Foster

Job Titles:
  • Rights and Contracts Manager

Denise Magee

Job Titles:
  • Business Associate

Ellen Ann Fentress

Job Titles:
  • Writer for the New York Times
Ellen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She's also a seasoned southern woman, specifically a white Mississippi one. "Women do a lot for ...

Emily Snyder Bandy

Job Titles:
  • Acquisitions Editor
Areas of acquisitions: film; food and foodways; history; media studies; television studies

Jennifer Mixon

Job Titles:
  • Book Designer

Joey Brown

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Assistant and Exhibits Coordinator

Jordan Nettles Rueff

Job Titles:
  • Publicity and Promotions Manager / Events and Signings Media ( Including Requests for Promotional Materials ) Social Media Awards Advertising
Events and signings; media (including requests for promotional materials); social media; awards; advertising

Kathy Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Data Services and Course Adoptions Manager

Katie E. Keene

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief
Areas of acquisitions: children's and young adult literature studies; photography; Mississippi, Louisiana, and regional studies

Katie Turner

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Kristin Kirkpatrick

Job Titles:
  • Electronic and Direct - to - Consumer Sales Manager

Laura Strong

Job Titles:
  • Project Editor

Lisa McMurtray

Job Titles:
  • Acquisitions Editor

Mary Heath

Job Titles:
  • Associate Editor
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

Pete Halverson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Production Manager / Senior Book Designer

Rachel Switzer Yancey

Job Titles:
  • Digital Publishing Specialist

Sandy Alexander


Seetha Srinivasan

Job Titles:
  • Director Emerita

Shane Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor
Manages project editors; guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing

Shonna Horton

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Stephene McCullough

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Steven B. Yates

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director / Marketing Director / Sales
Sales approaches (all bookstores, wholesalers, online vendors, sales representatives, and global distribution partners)

Todd Lape

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director / Production and Design Manager
  • Design and Production

Valerie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Editor
Guides manuscripts through copyediting, page proofs, and indexing; contact for freelance inquiries