Grad Network Dinner / Academic Publishing
January 22 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
This event is for current grad students at Carolina.
Our annual Grad Student Network Dinner is January 22, 2025, 6:00pm.
Catering by Tandem.
Join us for a conversation about what to expect before you start on your “first book” project and other academic writing. We will have a panel of experts give useful tips and then the conversation will continue over dinner. Registration required.
The panel includes:
Sandra Korn, Acquisitions Editor, Wayne State University Press
Recently published the new book by Ruth von Bernuth and Gabrielle Berlinger: The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture
Marcie Cohen Ferris, professor emeritus, department of American studies, an editor for Southern Cultures, and formerly associate director of the Center. Her books include: The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region and Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, and she co-authored Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Ferris is the editor of Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor (UNC Press, 2022), an exploration of the contemporary food movement in North Carolina. She and her husband recently created the Ferris & Ferris Books imprint at UNC Press.
Michael Figueroa, associate professor, department of music, director of the New Faculty Program at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and previously associate director of the Center. His books include: City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma (University of Michigan Press, 2020.)
Tara Jordan, 2024 alumna of the Center and the department of music, editorial assistant at Wiley, previously with Duke University Press.
Learn more and register.
Catering by Tandem.
