UNC Press Welcomes Sandra Korn as History Editor 

We’re pleased to announce that Sandra Korn will join UNC Press as History Editor, effective May 26, 2026. 

Korn comes to us from Wayne State University Press, where she spent four years as an acquiring editor, revitalizing established lists and launching new series. Books she acquired there have received national and international recognition, including When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City by Felicia George, a finalist for the 2025 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and Picnics and Porcupines: Eating in the Wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by Candice Goucher, which won the Gourmand Awards’ Best Book in Food and Nature. Before that, she was an assistant editor at Duke University Press, where she began building her own acquisitions. 

At UNC Press, she will acquire in environmental history, the history of science and medicine, urban history, labor history, and oversee the Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges series and Studies in Social Medicine series.

“Sandra’s editorial vision, her experience building lists and series, and the way she works with authors and colleagues all line up with what we were looking for in this role,” said Dawn Durante, Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director. “She also brings established regional and field connections. I’m looking forward to her expanding the important series and lists she’ll be taking on.”

“As someone who loves both North Carolina and history books, I’m thrilled to be joining the team at UNC Press as acquisitions editor for history,” said Korn. “Now more than ever, we need rigorously reviewed academic books that tell histories of the South, of this country, and of the world, and I’m proud to be part of a press with a long legacy of publishing books that help us understand the past in important new ways.”

Sandra is based in Durham and will work from the Press’s Chapel Hill office. We’re excited to welcome her to the UNC Press team!