Editorial Advisory Committee

The editorial advisory committee of the University of Arkansas Press, also known as the press committee, is the faculty oversight and advisory body that provides editorial guidance, certifies the application of peer review, and consults on issues regarding mission, vision, and planning. The committee meets twice a year to hear operational reports from the director, respond to editorial and peer review reports from the editor-in-chief, and discuss strategic initiatives and institutional development. It comprises a chair, who serves a five-year term; six members, who serve three-year terms; and two external members, who also serve three-year terms. Additionally, the press’s director, its editor-in-chief, and the vice chancellor to whom the press reports serve as ex officio members.

Jeannie Whayne

University Professor

Author or editor of over a dozen university press books, Whayne was the coeditor with Willard B. Gatewood Jr. of the first title published by the University of Arkansas Press: The Governors of Arkansas. Whayne has been professor of history in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas since 1990, where she has served as chair of the department and editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. She has served as chair of the press committee since 2016.

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Lisa Corrigan

Professor of Communication

Lisa Corrigan is the director of the Gender Studies Program in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. She is a feminist rhetorical scholar who researches and teaches in the areas of social movement studies, the Black Power and civil rights movement, and prison studies. She cohosts the podcast Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations and is the author of Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (U Press of Mississippi). She has served as a member of the press committee since 2020.

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Geffrey Davis

Associate Professor of English

Geffrey Davis is associate professor of English and teaches in the Program in Creative Writing & Translation and with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program. He author of two collections of poetry: Night Angler (2019), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Revising the Storm (2014), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Crazyhorse, New England Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, PBS NewsHour, and Ploughshares. The poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review, he has been named a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and has received the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, as well as fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Whiting Foundation for his involvement with The Prison Story Project, which strives to empower incarcerated women and men in Arkansas to tell their own stories through writing.

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Perla M. Guerrero

Associate Professor of American Studies (University of Maryland)

Perla M. Guerrero is associate professor of American studies and director of the US Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also affiliate faculty with the Asian American Studies Program, the Center for Global Migration Studies, and the Latin American Studies Center. Her research and teaching interests include relational and comparative race and ethnicity with a focus on Latinas/os/xs and Asian Americans, space and place, immigration, labor, US history, and the US South. She is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press).

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Brian Mitchell

Associate Professor of History (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Brian Mitchell is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and has been a resident of Arkansas nearly ten years. He teaches in the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His interests include African American antebellum history, free black communities, and urban history. He is coauthor with Grif Stockley and Guy Lancaster and of Blood in their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919 and the author of the graphic history Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana (Historic New Orleans Collection), a Phillis Wheatley Book Award winner that tells the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America’s first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor.

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Michael Pierce

Associate Professor of History

Michael Pierce is associate professor of history and specializes in the modern US, Arkansas, and labor and race. He received his A.B. from Kenyon College and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His book, Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party, appeared in the spring of 2010 from Northern Illinois University Press. Pierce‘s current project looks at race and the labor movement in postwar Arkansas, with a particular emphasis on Little Rock‘s Central High crisis. Pierce is also the co-author of In the Workers‘ Interest: A History of the Ohio AFL-CIO, 1958-1998, co-editor of Builders of Ohio: A Biographical History, and co-editor of the forthcoming Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre. His essays have appeared in Labor History, Agricultural History, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and various edited volumes. He serves as associate editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

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Kim Sexton

Associate Professor of Architecture

Kim Sexton joined the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in 1999 and served as the director of its honors for program for ten years. Holding a PhD in art history from Yale University, Sexton specializes in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. She has served on the committe since 2020.