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Dawn Durante

@dawnd.bsky.social

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Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant • real housewife of the other Orange County

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · May 30

I'm humbled and excited to share the news that I have the opportunity to lead the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department in the role of Editorial Director.

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 3d

Best bookish weekend: new Reading Rainbow PLUS first visit to @mcintyres.bsky.social books, which was amazing. My TBR list got a workout with everything I just added.

Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 4d

New episode of READING RAINBOW drops todayyyyyyy! 📚🌈📖

Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 5d

*blush*

Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 5d

Another incredible opportunity! So many profoundly smart and thoughtful people on this panel (and who doesn't love getting to hear from @dawnd.bsky.social?!?)!

Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 5d

Have your sights set on publishing your first scholarly book? We’re just a few days away from kicking off our free First Book Publishing Series! 💥 Our inaugural webinar topic: Finding the right publisher for your first book. Register: ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...

#IoFFirstBookSeries

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 7d

UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 8d

October 8: Hear from these 3 acquisition editors at Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book:
- Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social
- Dominique Moore, @illinoispress.bsky.social
- Mike Baccam @mikebaccam.bsky.social, @uwapress.bsky.social

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Puzzle pieces on a yellow background, with speaker photos. Text reads: Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book, October 8, 12-1 pm, part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

Dominique Moore wearing a grey shirt and glasses

Mike Baccam wearing a green shirt in front of trees

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 9d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 19d

We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 21d

The stakes have never been higher for peer review, and in keeping with with AI theme for #PeerReviewWeek, #FeedingTheElephant has a post from @alisonsyring.bsky.social and Gabriela Bueno Gibbs on "Artificial Intelligence and Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing." networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Artificial Intelligence and Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing | H-Net

A guest post from

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank you sharing the opportunity and the kind words, Michelle. 💜

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Aug 15

reading a 1979 article in ebony that says "actually, undocumented workers pay more in taxes than they receive in services. what's more, the government's own study bears this out." do you ever think time is a flat circle. the same conversation for almost 50 years and here we are.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says

Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 5

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 5

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

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Catherine Cocks @catherinefte.bsky.social · Jul 30

how @dawnd.bsky.social and @emily-elliott.bsky.social and I are passing the time in between producing #feedingtheelephant posts: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · Jul 25

US Intellectual History Conference Program is out! November 6-8, 2026, in Detroit, MI! s-usih.org/wp-content/u...

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today I overheard someone say “I guess common sense isn’t very common anymore” and yes.

Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · Jul 22

I know, right!

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · Jul 22

Minding my own business only to come across Netflix’s brutal new category “Hope They Don’t End Up on the Kiss Cam.”

Picture of Netflix landing page with the category “Hope They Don’t End Up on the Kiss Cam”

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 8

This is exactly what the internet is for.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Jul 10

Among the waste uncovered by ProPublica and @cbsnews.com: Texas reimbursed anti-abortion groups $14 each time they handed out donated goods or materials, regardless of cost.

Thus, handing out one pamphlet reaped the same payment as a pack of diapers.

(Published July 2024)

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · Jul 9

MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is available on @bookshop.org for $1 less than on Amazon plus free shipping if you order by July 11.

Once you’ve ordered, fill out the form here to win cool stuff and have me send $ to @trevorproject.bsky.social

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Preorder incentives for Make Your Manuscript Work

Thank you for preordering Make Your Manuscript Work by Laura Portwood-Stacer. Note: submitting a patron request to your public or institutional library counts as a preorder for the purposes of this f...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Jul 8

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · Jul 2

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades.

#AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 3

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget.

Republicans did it.

Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate.

Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Folks have snapped their laptops shut after attending the virtual #aupresses25. @dawnd.bsky.social and @catherinefte.bsky.social share the highlights with #FeedingTheElephant, focusing on librarianship, #OA, advocacy, and the future of academic publishing.
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The Elephant Goes to AUPresses 2025 | H-Net

Post by Catherine Cocks, director, Syracuse University Press and Dawn Durante, Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director, University of North Carolina Press

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 16

No One Sure Why Kristi Noem Wearing Firefighter Helmet, Night-Vision Goggles, High Heels, Wet Suit theonion.com/no-one-...

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