annual donor report 2015 An affiliate of the UNC System and its 16 public universities, the University of North Carolina Press serves the system by publishing award-winning scholarship in the humanities, and serves the people of the state by publishing superb general- interest works that explore and celebrate our region’s history and culture. UNC Press Advancement Council 2015 William (Bill) Massey Ex-Officio Chair Manteo, NC Eric Muller Chair, UNC Press Board of Governors John S. (Jack) Stevens Chapel Hill, NC Vice Chair Asheville, NC Marcie Ferris UNC Press Board of Governors E. Osborne (Ozzie) Ayscue Chapel Hill, NC Charlotte, NC John Sherer William (Bill) Bondurant Spangler Family Director Chapel Hill, NC UNC Press Ray Farris Joanna Ruth Marsland Charlotte, NC Director of Development UNC Press Dudley Flood Raleigh, NC Renee Grisham North Garden, VA Kim Phillips Chapel Hill, NC Robert (Bob) Ray Fayetteville, NC Karl Stauber Danville, VA Susan Stern Wilmington, NC Richard Stevens Cary, NC Dear Friends, To quote Calvin and Hobbes, “The days are just packed!” This exclamation applies not only to the adventures of an irrepressible six-year-old boy and his tiger but also to life at UNC Press. In 2015, the Press published 104 titles, or a new, outstanding work every 3-4 days. Of those original titles, named endowments supported thirty-three titles, the Authors Fund supported eleven titles, and the unrestricted Press Club touched them all. Prizes are one way to define ‘outstanding work.’ This year, UNC Press books claimed three of the Organization for American Historians top prizes: Dan Berger’s Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing In The Civil Rights Era won the James A. Rawley Prize; Chantal Norrgard’s Seasons Of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, And Ojibwe Nationhood won the David Montgomery Award; and Lisa Tetrault’s The Myth Of Seneca Falls: Memory And The Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 won the Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize. Prizes are often conferred the year after publication, so you may recall from last year’s Annual Report that Captive Nation was supported by the John Hope Franklin Fund and The Myth of Seneca Falls was supported by the Greensboro Women’s Fund. Five of last year’s Authors Fund titles won awards from organizations as diverse as the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Business History Conference. Great gifts make great books. UNC Press books also attracted consistent attention in the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Essence Magazine, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “The Diane Rehm Show.” For the second year in a row, UNC Press had a New York Times bestseller with Marianne Gingher’s Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers, and Mildred ‘Mama Dip’ Council sold all copies of a special two-volume edition of her cookbooks during a QVC live broadcast. Notably, Amazing Place and Mama Dip’s Kitchen are Blythe Family Fund supported titles. Again, great gifts make great books. Continuing with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, the Press made significant investments in expanding digital publishing tools and services. The Press’s newly created Office of Scholarly Publishing Services (OSPS) takes advantage of these improvements. Initiated with a grant last summer from UNC President Tom Ross, OSPS provides mission-driven publishing expertise and assistance to constituent campuses and related organizations. Projects include helping Fayetteville State University’s Department of Chemistry and Physics publish a low-cost course pack, working with curators of the Rare Book Collection at the UNC-Chapel Hill Library to publish a William Wordsworth Collection catalog, and collaborating with the Appalachian State University Library to reissue more than 75 pioneering books in the field of Appalachian studies. I wholeheartedly thank each of you listed in the coming pages for your magnificent support. You should take tremendous pride in sharing in all that we, together, accomplish. With sincere gratitude, Joanna Ruth Marsland Director of Development Gifts made January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 UNC PRESS CLUB MEMBERS Publisher’s Circle Editor’s Circle ($1,000 to Author’s Circle ($500 to ($5,000 and above) $2,499) $999) Anonymous Renee and Andy Anderson Jeffri and Tommy Adkins Alice George Emily and Ozzie Ayscue Bea and Saint Basnight in Renee and John Grisham Bill Bondurant honor of Bill Massey Cyndy and John O’Hara The Robert C. and Sally B. Sarah and Rodney Benson Florence and Jim Peacock Cone Fund of the Crandall and Erskine Jewish Foundation of Bowles Greensboro (Sally and Frannie and Herb Browne Director’s Circle ($2,500 Bob Cone) Mary Lynn and Norwood to $4,999) Daniel Crofts Bryan Patt Derian and Hodding Jan and Steve Capps Victoria and Porter Carter Jim Clark Durham Cydne and Ray Farris Stephanie and John Haley Pat and Jack Evans Julia and Frank Daniels, Vicky and Rich Hendel Moore Family Fund of the Jr. Endowment Fund Luther Hodges Triangle Community of Triangle Ann and Howard Foundation (Sandra Community Holsenbeck and Bill Moore) Foundation Missy and John Hollis and Karl Stauber Anne Faircloth and Fred Kuykendall Beaujeu-Dufour Donna and Tom Lambeth Linda and Jim Harris Harriet and D.G. Martin Betty Kenan Darcy and Doug Orr Tom Kenan Josie Patton Bill Massey in honor of W. Trent Ragland Jr. Wyndham Robertson Foundation (Anna Anne and Bill McLendon Hayes) Kim and Phil Phillips Clyda and George Rent Sylvia and Bob Ray Betsy and Frank Skidmore Wyndham Robertson Cissie and Jack Stevens Linda Rudd and Tom Rollie Tillman Wentworth UNC Press Fund at the Talia and John Sherer Cumberland Kay Stern Community Susan Stern-Huffine and Foundation David Huffine Marylyn and Ed Williams William A. Stern Foundation Jere and Richard Stevens Blossom Tindall Kate and Allen Torrey Jane Volland and Lars Schoultz Gifts made January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 UNC PRESS CLUB MEMBERS Reader’s Circle ($200 to Reader’s Circle ($200 to Additional Gifts, $499) $499), continued continued Gloria and Vernon Kaia and Thomas Mates Betsy Brown Anderson Alice and John May Betsy and Jim Bryan Blanche and Zach Bacon Ann and Rolfe Neill Lucy Daniels Tamara and Brent Irene Owens Linda and John Ferren Barringer Nell Irvin Painter and Anne and Carl Granath Amy and Philip Glenn Shafer Linda Hanley-Bowdoin Blumenthal Leland Park Kitty Harrison Inger and Benjamin Susan and Jim Phillips Wayne Jones Brodey Virginia Powell Elizabeth Kostova Suejette and David Brown Dale and John Reed Gloria and Harry Lerner Bob Brunk Sue and Dick Richardson Lisa Levenstein and Jason Teresa and David Carroll Margaret Robinson Brent The Charlotte Fund for Sally and Russell Susan and Dennis Martin UNC Press of the Robinson Charles Massey Foundation for the Frances Rollins Betty Ray McCain Carolinas Barbara Sullivan and Barbara Moran Jane Cochrane Michael Murchison Leslie Brandon-Muller and Diana and Scott Corbett The Mid Atlantic Eric Muller Lee Craig Foundation (Emily and Carmen and Fountain Julie Curd David Weil) Odom Robbie Dircks Leona and Willis Judy and Andrew Phillips Kathleen DuVal and Whichard in honor of Dudley Martin Smith Linda and Fletcher Willey Flood Susan Ehringhaus and Martha and Jim Woodward Dannye and Lew Powell Stuart Bondurant Martha and Mark Reed Marcie and Bill Ferris Louise and Roy Ritchie Dudley Flood Suzie and John Ruhl Carol and Nortin Hadler Additional Gifts Eleanor Rutledge and Jim Joanna and Norman Harris Lesher Elizabeth Holsten Nina Stromgren Allen Marilyn Anderson Chris Schweitzer Joy and John Kasson Samia Serageldin Mary Krabacher in honor Charron and Bill Andrews Mary Lou and Jim Babb Frances and Bill Smyth of Dudley Flood, in Bell Family Foundation Julie and Philip memory of Barbara (Mary Grady and Vic Speasmaker Flood and David Vin Steponaitis Bell, Fairley Bell Priscilla Taylor Krabacher Cook) Becky and David Marsland John Touloupas Bob Bridges Mary Bruce and Stephen Joanna Ruth and Tom Cyndi and Jeff Broadwater Marsland Woody Gifts made January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 ENDOWMENTS TITLE SUPPORT TITLE SUPPORT, continued Anniversary Fund Brigham Young University University of North Cornell College, Richard and Carolina-Duke Catherine Lawrence and Eric Norma Small Consortium in Latin Papenfuse Distinguished American Studies Professorship Award Washington University in St. Duke University, Louis Aubrey Lee Brooks Fund Department of Religion Yale University, Hilles Fund Emory University Yale University, History of Anonymous Enamel Arts Foundation Art Department Figure Foundation Georgetown University Michigan State University RESTRICTED GIFTS Blythe Family Fund Old Dominion University Blythe Family Fund of Pennsylvania State Regina Mahalek and John Raymond James (Anne University, Department Jones Blythe) of History and African Bill Massey David Blythe American Studies Kim and Phil Phillips Mellicent and John Blythe Pennsylvania State Susan Stern-Huffine and Will Blythe University, George and David Huffine Ann Richards Civil War Era Center Rhodes College Hodgson Fund Social Science Research Ruth and Tom Green Council Southern Methodist University, William P. Clements Center for Spangler Family Director Southwest Studies University of Buffalo, Jane and Hugh McColl SUNY, Julian Park Fund University of Iowa University of Michigan University of Michigan, Office of Research University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ackland Museum of Art University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for the Study of the American South Gifts made January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 AUTHORS FUND Anonymous (22) Paul Craven Carl Abbott Hamilton Cravens Robert Accinelli Daniel W. Crofts Melinda P. Adams for Edward C. Adams Julie Cumming for William Cumming Timothy Dow Adams Patricia Cumming for William Cumming Michael Adas Robert Cumming for William Cumming Maria Ågren Arthur Daemmrich Thomas Allen Jane Dailey George Andrews Christopher Daly David Armitage Thadious Davis Annette Armstrong for John A.