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Sara Jo Cohen

@thunderrhoda.bsky.social

Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.

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Let me know what vegetarian turkey substitute you go with!

26.11.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like very short notice.

25.11.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thursday, 6.30 pm Pacific time!

20.11.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful cover! Excited to read this one!

30.10.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pinkerton is great. Then everything is mid.

15.10.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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View of a latte from above, sitting in a wooden counter. Milk foam design is roughly in the shape of a turtle head.

View of a latte from above, sitting in a wooden counter. Milk foam design is roughly in the shape of a turtle head.

Popping in to tell you that I’m in a very busy coffee shop and ended up with this angry turtle latte art as a result.

27.09.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Swing by our booth to chat with our Editorial Director @thunderrhoda.bsky.social!

25.06.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

So excited that two @uofmpress.bsky.social books are on this list. press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/06...

05.06.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œ[University Presses] need a Bandcamp moment-people realizing their friends won’t have bands if no one buys music or merch.” Let’s make this happen.

05.06.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Sending lots of love. Good luck out there!

26.04.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.

01.04.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

I discussed this with my mother who smartly said it was likely a catheter. A diaper wouldn’t hold for that long.

02.04.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If a woman were president, she would have warned those guys that Mercury’s in retrograde and that they should double check who’s in the group chat.

24.03.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds awful. Hope you’re back on your feet soon!

23.02.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
6 homemade pretzels on foil.

6 homemade pretzels on foil.

Go birds!

09.02.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

+1, but I’m guessing those are the best pickles available in Dubuque.

04.02.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the answer is everybody?

01.02.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Black licorice is only for grandpas, but I fully support eating whatever brings you joy right now.

01.02.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

THEY ARE MAGIC.

01.02.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m really into dried figs and cheez-it’s right now.

01.02.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s basically a burpee, right?

28.01.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
2 piles of books, glasses, a seltzer can, knitting needles, a recorder, and a ball of yarn.

2 piles of books, glasses, a seltzer can, knitting needles, a recorder, and a ball of yarn.

Sick day, still life.

27.01.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Orleans, Katrina, and Bounce: A Conversation with Big Freedia | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard University Department of Music welcome the Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia, for a conversation about music, community, and strength in the face of climate chan...

I’m really excited about this FREE upcoming @rad-institute.bsky.social event I’m doing on February 11, in conversation with thee Big Freedia, moderated by Loren Kajikawa! β€œNew Orleans, Katrina, and Bounce: A Conversation with Big Freedia.”

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

26.01.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Editorial Assistant – AUPresses Jobs

An editor without an assistant is like a broken pencil . . .

pointless. [paraphrasing/h/t Edmund Black Adder]:

@ugapress.bsky.social has a BIG JOB>

bit.ly/4auzWWy

23.01.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our new book, "Hip-Hop Civics" illuminates how hip-hop-based education can engage Black and Brown students in civic practices and extract critical lessons about media, relational currency, identity, and race/racism within the classroom. Find it at press.umich.edu/Book...

22.01.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ICYMI

This spring & summer, the University of Oklahoma Press will be rolling out some good books:

β€”teaching with integrity in the age of AI
β€”Tulsa 100 years after the Race Massacre
β€”Cherokee Nation citizenship
β€”politics of peyote
β€”Klan in Montana
β€”eugenics in Texas
β€”Osage language primer

More! 🧡

19.01.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What will become of the Wanamaker Organ?

09.01.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now hiring! UC Press is looking for a detail-oriented Editorial Assistant to join our hybrid team in Oakland, CA! This is a fantastic opportunity to work behind the scenes on impactful scholarly and trade books. buff.ly/3Cd8znb #PublishingJobs #EditorialCareers

09.01.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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I'm excited to share a Call for Papers an interdisciplinary conference on "Depression in Popular Music" from June 26-27, 2025 at the Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) that I'm co-organizing w/iPLesp. Spread the word: depressioninpopconference2025.com

29.12.2024 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1