Sheila Levine, Associate Director and Publisher, Received a B

Don’t miss this opportunity to highlight UCD faculty expertise in the humanities and to establish future publishing partnerships with UC Press editors!

Press representatives attending this workshop will include:

Sheila Levine, 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.

Mary C. Francis is Music and Cinema Studies Editor at the University of California Press. She holds degrees in music from Brandeis University and Yale University. She began working at the University of California Press in 1999, after working at Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, and Mayfield Publishers. She focuses on books for scholars and general readers on cinema, opera and other classical music, jazz, American music, and media studies. Recent projects include biographies of George Gershwin (by Howard Pollack), Ethel Merman (by Caryl Flinn), Walt Disney (by Michael Barrier), and Hollywood Gossip Queen Louella Parsons (First Lady of Hollywood, by Samantha Barbas), 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. Forthcoming projects include essays on jazz by Amiri Baraka, books of criticism by nationally known film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Peter Rainer, and New York Times music critic Richard Taruskin, and a book on Leonard Bernstein's political beliefs. Laura Cerruti is Director of Digital Content Development at University of California Press. She 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, worked on revised editions in the California Natural History Guide series, and acquired books in poetry and classical studies. 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. She was member of the AAUP Program Committee from 2004-2006 and the American Philological Association (APA) Task Force on Electronic Publishing from 2006-2007 (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/taskforce/APAAIATaskForce.html ). Highlights from her recent projects include: Mark Twain Project Online (www.marktwainproject.org); University of California Publications in Linguistics, a series of monographs published in both print and open-access digital forms; and a number of print books, including The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman and Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History by Denis Feeney.

Niels Hooper is the History Editor at University of California Press. He has a BA in History from Oxford and was in the PhD program in History at the University of Michigan. He worked at Verso books in New York, at first in publicity, then sales and marketing, and then editorial, eventually running the US operation. He has been at the University of California Press for four years. His list is broad but areas of specialization include California & the West, US history and cultural studies, World history, and Middle East studies. Recent highlights include books by senior scholars like Peter Linebaugh's Magna Carta Manifesto, Daniel Smail's On Deep History and the Brain, or Gary Okihiro's Island World, as well as first books like Ruth Gilmore's Golden Gulag, Linda Nash's Inescapable Ecologies, or Daniel Hurewitz's Bohemian Los Angeles.

Stephanie Fay, Art History and Classics Editor, has been acquiring books for UC Press since 1996, after several years of teaching in the writing program at UC Davis and several more editing manuscripts. She publishes books in European, Asian, and American art history, with the greatest emphasis on American subjects. She is the in-house editor of UC Press's Defining Moments in American Photography series, edited by Anthony W. Lee (who studied at UC Davis). Three volumes of this series have now been published. The classics list is varied, owing partly to the breadth of the series UC Press publishes, especially the Hellenistic Culture and Society series (general editors Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart); the Transformation of the Classical Heritage series (general editor, Peter Brown), and the Sather Lecture series.

Jenny Wapner is 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.