The University of Texas Press Advisory Committee was convened on August
29, 2002, by Michael Churgin. At this meeting, the committee elected
the chair, the vice chair, and a third member of the three-person executive
committee for the year. (The executive committee is empowered to act
between meetings on urgent projects.) Naomi Lindstrom was elected chair,
Charles Ramirez Berg, vice chair, and James Magnuson was elected the
third member of the executive committee.
This particular committee has no student members because of the highly
confidential nature of the materials read by committee members, especially
outside reader’s assessments of the work of scholarly authors. Some
of these assessments are either composed by or refer to faculty at UT Austin.
The committee is made up of ten faculty members. These faculty members
meet with staff members from the various departments of The University
of Texas Press. The staff members present projects and provide information
but have no vote.
Six meetings have been held since August 2002, and most likely three more
will be scheduled between now and August 31, 2003. Forty-four book projects
have been accepted by the committee.
Naomi Lindstrom, chair
This document was posted on the Faculty Council Web site, www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/
on August 20, 2003. Paper copies are available on request from the Office
of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500.
