My latest project is a version of Katherine Charron's book Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark, enhanced with 60 audio excerpts from oral histories and 35 archival documents, published in collaboration with the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture in Charleston. It also includes extended captions and links to online archives, features that were inspired by our Long Civil Rights Movement online pilot collection. The LCRM pilot experimented with open commenting on a collection of 84 books, articles, papers, and reports and garnered more than 600 comments from registered users during its 15-month test period. Here is my usual "short bio": Sylvia K. Miller has nearly three decades of experience in scholarly publishing. In 2011, the Encyclopedia of World Dress & Fashion, her brainchild co-published by Berg Publishers and Oxford University Press, became the tenth Dartmouth Medal winner on her project list. As executive editor at Scribner Reference, she was involved in some of the earliest digital reference publishing, and later she spearheaded online reference as a publishing director at Routledge. As director of the Mellon-funded collaborative project, Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement, at UNC Chapel Hill, she is interested in connecting published scholarship and multimedia archival materials in new ways, both online and in enhanced e-books. She holds a B.A. (U.C. Berkeley) and an M.A. (Columbia University) in comparative literature.
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Position/Job Title:Project Director, Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement
Organization:University Of North Carolina Press