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Submitting a Manuscript Proposal to The University of Alabama Press

The University of Alabama Press publishes in the following areas: American history; southern history and culture; American religious history; Latin American history; American archaeology; southeastern archaeology; Caribbean archaeology; historical archaeology; ethnohistory; anthropology; American literature and criticism; rhetoric and communication; creative non-fiction; linguistics, esp. dialectology; African-American studies; Native American studies; Judaic studies; public administration; theater; natural history and environmental studies; American social and cultural history; sports history; military history; regional studies of Alabama and the southern United States, including trade titles. Submissions are not invited in poetry, fiction, or drama. The press also publishes the journals Theatre Symposium, Theatre History Studies, and Fairy Tale Review.

Special series from Alabama include Alabama: The Forge of History; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory; Classics in Southeastern Archaeology; Contemporary American Indian Studies; Deep South Books; Judaic Studies; Library of Alabama Classics; Modern and Contemporary Poetics; The Modern South; Religion and American Culture; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique; and Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal in one of the fields above, it would be most helpful if you would supply

a cover letter

a prospectus including a description of your work and its intended audience, the length or anticipated length of the manuscript, the number or anticipated number of illustrations, and the anticipated date of completion if your work is still in progress

a curriculum vitae

If available, also send

a table of contents

an introduction

and/or a sample chapter or two

Please direct your inquiry to the appropriate acquisitions editor (for questions, feel free to contact the appropriate editor by e-mail):

Daniel J. J. Ross, Director (danross@uapress.ua.edu): American history, southern history and culture, American military history, American religious history, Latin American history, Jewish studies, regional studies of Alabama and the southern United States, including regional trade titles

Judith Knight, Senior Acquisitions Editor (jknight@uapress.ua.edu): American archaeology, southeastern archaeology, Caribbean archaeology, historical archaeology, Native American studies, ethnohistory, anthropology

Daniel Waterman, Acquisitions Editor for Humanities (waterman@uapress.ua.edu): American literature and criticism, rhetoric and communication, creative non-fiction, linguistics, African-American studies, public administration, theater, art, natural history and environmental studies

Elizabeth Motherwell, Acquisitions Editor for Natural History and the Environment (emother@uapress.ua.edu): natural history and environmental trade titles

Claire Lewis Evans, Associate Editor for Digital and Electronic Publishing (cevans@uapress.ua.edu): digital projects

We look forward to receiving your submission in the format requested above, mailed to the appropriate editor at one of the following addresses:


(for U.S. Mail services)			(for other parcel or express delivery services)
The University of Alabama Press		          	The University of Alabama Press
Box 870380				200 Hackberry Lane, 2nd Floor McMillan Bldg.
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380			Tuscaloosa, AL 35401

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