SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Catherine Cocks was recently appointed director of Syracuse University Press, which is part of Syracuse University Libraries. Cocks was previously interim director of Michigan State University’s Press, where she also served as assistant director and editor-in-chief. She has more than 20 years of experience in academic publishing, having worked as senior acquisitions […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Catherine Cocks was recently appointed director of Syracuse University Press, which is part of Syracuse University Libraries.
Cocks was previously interim director of Michigan State University’s Press, where she also served as assistant director and editor-in-chief. She has more than 20 years of 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 taskforce 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.