Nadine Zimmerli, ex officio

Nadine Zimmerli is the Editor for History and Politics at the University of Virginia Press. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she completed a dissertation in modern European history under the supervision of Rudy Koshar and a PhD minor in Indigenous American history under the supervision of Ned Blackhawk. An acquisitions editor with twenty years of experience, she got her start in academic publishing at the University of Wisconsin Press as a project assistant for the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas. For a decade, she worked in the books program of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, where she developed award-winning books in various subfields of early American history. Joining UVA Press in 2019, she now oversees diverse lists on American history across five centuries, with an emphasis on the Revolutionary, Early Republic, and Civil War periods, as well as book series on the Black military experience, on South African history, and on early modern German history. Her acquisitions in politics center on the American presidency, the courts, race relations, and global democracy. Her portfolio also includes academic and trade books on the history and culture of Virginia, and in 2023, she was elected to the Virginia Forum Board of Directors for a three-year term.