(Poetry and Poetics Editor) received a B.A. in English from Hunter College and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. A published author (under the name "Rachel Salazar"), she has worked at UC Press since 1996 after having been an editor at Grove Press and adjunct professor in the English department at Brooklyn College. At UC Press she has been the editor of many UC Press poetry titles, including the second volume of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris; Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy; Paul Celan: Selections, edited by Pierre Joris (third volume in the Poets for the Millennium series); The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, edited by Alice Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan; along with all twenty-four books in the New California Poetry series, among them, Fanny Howe's prize-winning Selected Poems. Forthcoming books include Robert Creeley's Selected Poems, 1945-2005, edited by Benjamin Friedlander; Jackson Mac Low's Thing of Beauty, edited by Anne Tardos; The Poems of Mao Zedong, translated by Willis Barnstone; George Oppen's Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers; and Gertrude Stein: Selections, edited by Joan Retallack; as well as the three most recent books in the New California Poetry series--Leslie Scalapino's It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006; Cole Swensen's Ours; and Laura Walker's rimertown/an atlas.
Email: rachel.berchten@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: poetry and poetics

(Acquisitions Editor and Editorial Director for Digital Publishing, Books Division) received a B.A. in English from UC Davis and has worked at UC Press since 1997. During her years at UC Press and before taking her current position, she has alternately sold to books clubs and special markets, managed the paperback list, and worked on revised editions in the California Natural History Guide series. She began her book publishing career in the editorial department of Chronicle Books in San Francisco. She has given presentations on publishing matters for the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), UC Berkeley, UC Office of the President, the Mendocino Writer’s Conference and the Community of Writers’ Conference; and she was member of the AAUP Program Committee from 2004-2006. Highlights from her recent acquisitions include: the UC Press bestseller Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race; Joshua Clover’s The Totality for Kids, which was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly and Bookforum; On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley, which was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review; Peter Green’s translation of The Poems of Catullus, which inspired a special event sponsored by Illy and Bookforum; and Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, featured in Barnes & Noble bookstores.
Email: laura.cerruti@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: ancient history, classical studies, humanities (general interest), language texts, literary biography, literature-in-translation, Mark Twain studies, poetry

(Science Publisher) received a B.A in Biology from UC San Diego, M.S. in Biology from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Rutgers University. Before beginning a career in publishing he had fellowships at the the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and taught at the university level. After more than a dozen years at Academic Press responsible for books in the life sciences, he joined UC Press in 2003 charged with working to double the size of the science publishing program. He focuses on major references, textbooks, text/references, and scholarly monographs. Highlights of recent acquisitions include Batzer and Sharitz's Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands, Scott's Evolution vs. Creationism, Denny & Gaines's Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores, and Coates's American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species.
Email: chuck.crumly@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: ecology, evolution, and organismal biology

(Principal Editor) has bachelor's degrees in anthropology and zoology from UC Berkeley and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. Since 2000, he has acquired new trade and scholarly books for UC Press in the subjects of biology, anthropology (specifically archaeology and biological anthropology), and wine. As a published author and co-author of magazine articles and nonfiction books (including From Lucy to Language, a New York Times notable book of 1996), Blake enjoys working with authors on manuscripts intended for a general readership. Recent highlights from his UC Press list include Beasts of Eden by David Rains Wallace (a New York Times notable book of 2004), Skin: A Natural History by Nina Jablonski, Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden, and Perfect Pairings: A Master Sommelier's Practical Advice for Partnering Wine with Food, by Evan Goldstein.
Email: blake.edgar@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: biology (with an emphasis on trade books), archaeology and biological anthropology, and wine

(Art and Art History Editor) has been acquiring books since 1996, after several years of teaching in the writing program at UC Davis and several more of editing manuscripts for UC Press. She publishes books in a number of fields of art history, but emphasizes American subjects. Forthcoming books include the first three volumes in a new series, Defining Moments of American Photography, edited by Anthony W. Lee, and a new edition of Robert Motherwell’s writings, The Writings of Robert Motherwell, edited by Dore Ashton, with Joan Banach, that is part of the Documents of Twentieth-Century Art series, edited by Jack Flam. In spring 2007 she will publish Robin Kelsey’s book Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850–1890, and Amy Lyford’s Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post–World War I Reconstruction in France. Recent publications include several prize-winning books: Sarah Burns, Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association); Michael Leja, Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (Modernist Studies Association Book Prize); and Martin Berger, Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture (Cawelti Book Award, American Culture Association).
Email: stephanie.fay@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: art history

(Music and Cinema Studies Editor) has been acquiring books for University of California Press since 1999, after working at Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, and Mayfield Publishers. She focuses on books for both general readers and scholars on Hollywood, opera and other classical music, jazz, American music, and biographies. Forthcoming projects include biographies of George Gershwin (by Howard Pollack), Ethel Merman (by Caryl Flinn), Walt Disney (by Michael Barrier), and Myrna Loy (by Emily Leider), as well as books of criticism by nationally known film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Peter Rainer, and New York Times music critic Richard Taruskin. Recent projects include a biography of Hollywood Gossip Queen Louella Parsons (First Lady of Hollywood, by Samantha Barbas), Jame Ivory in Conversation by Robert Emmet Long, Maynard Solomon’s Late Beethoven, Joseph Kerman’s The Art of Fugue, David Cairns’ Mozart and His Operas, selected criticism by Kyle Gann of the Village Voice, and The Way Hollywood Tells It by David Bordwell.
Email: mary.francis@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: music, cinema

joined UC Press in 1978 as head of the Los Angeles office. He began his publishing career at Macmillan, first as a sales rep and subsequently as an editor acquiring books in economics and finance. He later moved to Boston to become editor-in-chief at D.C. Heath, a textbook publisher, and then returned to New York to launch the social science program at Academic Press. He joined the staff in Berkeley in 2002, when the Press closed its LA office.
Email: stan.holwitz@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: anthropology, Jewish studies, public health

(History Editor) has a BA in modern history from Oxford University and an MA in history from the University of Michigan. He previously worked at Verso Books in New York, where he worked on two New York Times bestsellers. He focuses on history books for both general readers and scholars on a wide variety of regions (US, World, Middle East, Vietnam, Europe, California and the West, the Pacific), current affairs issues, and American cultural studies. He is particularly, but not exclusively, interested in books on topics such as immigration, radicalism, conservatism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, public health, the environment, transnationalism, and civil and human rights. He is also interested in books that explore the possible intersection of other disciplines (such as the sciences) with history. Some of his recent or upcoming books include The Tour de France: A Cultural History by ChristopherThompson, The Secret History of al Qaeda by Abdel Bari Atwan, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit, Island World: A History of Hawaii and the United States by Gary Okihiro, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein, and Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics by Daniel Hurewitz.
Email: niels.hooper@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: history, American studies

(Assistant Director) has bachelors and masters degrees in art history from the University of Michigan. She taught art history and was founding director of the museum studies program at John F. Kennedy University before coming to UC Press in 1985. Deborah is responsible for the museum copublication program at UC Press. Recent works include When We Were Young: New Perspectives on The Art of the Child, published in association with the Phillips Collection; The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, copublished with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, copublished with the Autry Museum of the American West; and Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, copublished with the DIA Art Foundation. Forthcoming titles include Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, a copublication with the Williams Museum of Art and Cecelia Beaux: American Figure Painter, a copublication with the High Museum in Atlanta. Deborah is also the editor of Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, and The Arts of China and other titles by Michael Sullivan. In addition to acquiring art books, she is director of development and public relations. She spends her leisure time hiking, swimming, and traveling.
Email: deborah.kirshman@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: museum copublications

(Associate Director and Publisher) received a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and has worked at UC Press for more than thirty years. She began her publishing career as an assistant to three editors before developing her own lists in American and European history and Asian studies. In 1993 she was named editorial director, and in 1998 she became assistant director of the Press. Combining her passions for publishing and food, she played a major role in launching the Press's program in food studies. Recent highlights from her list include The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, Historical Atlas of the United States, and Cities of the World. Sheila has also had a life as a bookseller. In 1974 she co-founded University Press Books/Berkeley, a bookstore devoted to scholarly books, and in her spare time she managed the operation for ten years.
Email: sheila.levine@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: food studies, regional studies

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Reed Malcolm

(Acquisitions Editor) acquires books in the fields of Religion, Asian Studies, Politics, and current events, covering both the Trade/General Interest and academic markets. He has had the good fortune of publishing a number of best-selling authors, including Huston Smith, Peter Matthiessen, Andrew Greeley, Stephen Prothero, Mark Juergensmeyer, Susan Griffin, Liza Dalby, Ilan Stavans, Shunryu Suzuki, and Jeffrey Hopkins. Reed holds a M.A. in the History of Religion from the University of Chicago (1995) and a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley (1990). Prior to joining the University of California Press in 1995, he worked in the acquisitions department at the University of Chicago Press (1994-1995) and at Parallax Press (1993). He also worked from 1990-1991 as a reporter for the Hills Newspapers group, covering education and politics for the Berkeley Voice and the El Cerrito Journal.
Email: reed.malcolm@ucpress.edu
Areas of acquisition: Religion (Anthopology/History/Sociology), Asian Studies, Politics/Current Events

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Naomi Schneider

(Executive Editor) was an undergraduate history major at Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate student in history at Brown University. She worked at HarperCollins, Random House, and Oxford University Press before coming to UC Press. In a previous life, she worked in a roofing factory, as a waitress, and on the railroad. She is now an executive editor and acquires in sociology, anthropology, women's studies, Latin American studies, and contemporary politics, and has edited award-winning authors such as Paul Farmer, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Cynthia Enloe and Alejandro Portes. A significant portion of her list is focused on issues of social justice and human rights. Some of her recent and forthcoming books include Falling Behind:How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, by Robert Frank; Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads, by Joel Best; Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, by Pamela Stone; Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life, by Annette Lareau; Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in America, by Peter Sacks; Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor, by Paul Farmer.
Email: naomi.schneider@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: sociology, anthropology, politics, Latin American studies

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Jenny Wapner

(Acquisitions Editor) is the the Environmental Studies and Natural History editor at the University of California Press. She has a BA in Russian Literature from Reed College in Portland, OR. Before coming to UC Press, she worked at Cambridge University Press in their West Coast based science group. Her areas of acquisition include ecology, natural history, organismal biology, environmental history, and gardening. Jenny also oversees the long standing California Natural History Guide series. Some of her recent books include Judith Lowry's The Landscaping Ideas of Jays, Ian McAllister's The Last Wild Wolves, Karen Halverson's Downstream, and Hans Peeters' Field Guide to Owls of California and the West.
Email: jenny.wapner@ucpress.edu
Areas of acquisition: Natural History, Environmental Studies, Ecology, and Horticulture

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Lynne Withey

(Director) received an A.B. in American Studies from Smith College and a Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley. After teaching history for five years at the University of Iowa, she returned to the University of California as an administrator in the Office of the President. She joined the Press as an Assistant Director in 1986, was promoted to Associate Director in 1993, and became Director of the Press in August 2002. She has played a major role in shaping editorial programs, acquiring books in history, music, Asian and Middle Eastern studies, and public health, as well as launching the Press's electronic publishing program. The author of four books, including the recently reissued Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams and Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and British Exploration of the Pacific, she lives in San Francisco.
Email: lynne.withey@ucpress.edu
areas of acquisition: public health