Catherine Cocks has been appointed director of Syracuse University Libraries’ Syracuse University Press, effective April 17. Cocks was previously interim director of Michigan State University’s Press, where she also served as assistant director and editor-in-chief.
Catherine Cocks
She has over 20 years’ experience in academic publishing, having worked as senior acquisitions editor at the University of Washington Press and editorial director at the University of Iowa Press.
Cocks holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in history and Spanish from Williams College. She has served on several professional committees for the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) and is currently a member of a joint task force on career progression of the AUPresses and the Society for Scholarly Publishing, as well as the National Humanities Alliance working group on publishing publicly engaged humanities projects. She is also a published author of three scholarly books.
