UNC Press Editor-in-Chief David Perry has announced that he plans to retire in March 2013.
Perry has worked with the publishing house for 34 years. UNC Press was founded in 1922 and is the oldest in the South and one of the oldest in the United States.
Perry acquires books in Southern studies and history. He has a special focus on Civil War and military history, and he also collects books for the UNC Press’s regional general-interest list.
Perry joined UNC Press as an editorial assistant in 1979, and he was named editor-in-chief in 1995.
Other notable achievements during his time on the press include serving on the North Carolina Arts Council, the board of the North Carolina Writers Network and the board of the North Carolina Writers Conference.
He was also a member of several task forces to craft new University copyright and intellectual property policies.
Perry also helped found the Working Group in Scholarly Communication at UNC.
Perry is a UNC alumnus.
