Nathaniel Holly Appointed EIC at University of Georgia Press

The University of Georgia Press (UGA Press) has appointed Nathaniel Holly as editor-in-chief.

Holly joined UGA Press as an editorial assistant in July 2019. In March 2020, Holly was promoted to acquisitions editor and since then has Acquisitions Editorial committee of the Association of University Presses. Prior to joining UGA Press, Holly completed an editorial apprenticeship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture in Williamsburg, Va.

As an acquisitions editor at UGA Press, Holly acquired and managed titles for series such as Early American Places; Gender and Slavery; the Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights; Music of the American South; Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South; Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900; and Southern Legal Studies.  

He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Clemson University, an M.A. in American history with an emphasis in Cherokee studies from Western Carolina University, and a Ph.D. in early American history from the College of William and Mary. Outside of his UGA Press duties, Holly reviews manuscripts for William and Mary Quarterly.