Francis Named Director of UPenn Press
Effective September 23, Mary C. Francis will become the 13th director of the University of Pennsylvania Press. She replaces outgoing director Eric Halpern, who took the helm of Penn Press in 1995 following stints at Johns Hopkins University Press and Cornell University Press.
Francis has been editorial director at the University of Michigan Press/Michigan Publishing since 2015, and was previously executive editor and team leader for the humanities at the University of California Press, where she started in 1999 as an editorial assistant. Francis also worked in the editorial and production departments at Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, and Mayfield Publishing. She is on the board of directors of the Association of University Presses, and has served AUPresses in various capacities, including chair of the 2019 Annual Meeting Program Committee, and chair of its acquisitions committee.
