Meet Our Editorial Team
Gisela Fosado, Editorial Director
email: gisela.fosado@duke.edu
Gisela Fosado publishes books in a wide range of areas in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, American and Atlantic World history, gender and sexuality studies, environmental studies, and Latin American and Latinx Studies.
Assisted by: Alejandra Mejía, Assistant Editor
New & Noteworthy Titles from Gisela
Ken Wissoker, Senior Executive Editor
email: kwiss@duke.edu
Ken Wissoker acquires books in anthropology, cultural studies, and social theory; globalization and postcolonial studies; Asian, African, and American studies; music, film and television; race, gender and sexuality; science studies; and other areas in the humanities, social sciences, media, and the arts. He joined the Press as an Acquisition Editor in 1991; became Editor-in-Chief in 1997; and was named Editorial Director in 2005. In addition to his duties at the Press, he serves as Director of Intellectual Publics at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York City.
Assisted by: Alejandra Mejía, Assistant Editor
and Kate Mullen, PhD, Assistant Editor
New and Noteworthy Titles from Ken
Courtney Berger, Executive Editor
email: ccberger@duke.edu
Courtney Berger joined the Press in 2003, after receiving her Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University. Courtney acquires books across the humanities and social sciences. Her key areas of acquisition include: social and political theory, transnational American studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality studies, African American studies, Asian American studies, critical ethnic studies, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, media studies, literary studies, and geography.
Assisted by: Ryan Kendall, PhD, Assistant Editor
New and Noteworthy Titles from Courtney
Elizabeth Ault, Senior Editor
email: elizabeth.ault@duke.edu
Elizabeth Ault joined Duke Press after receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Trained in an interdisciplinary field, she is most interested in projects that reach outward across disciplines and academic conversations in surprising ways (including work by activists and organizers), that connect historical and emerging conditions, and that are committed to engaging with race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. She works with the editors of several book series, including Practices, Black Feminism on the Edge, ASTERISK, Theory in Forms, and Camera Obscura.
Assisted by: Benjamin Kossak, PhD, Assistant Editor
New and Noteworthy Books by Elizabeth
Alejandra Mejía, Assistant Editor
Email: alejandra.mejia@duke.edu
Alejandra Mejía acquires books in Latinx history and oversees the Aberrant Borders series.
New and Noteworthy Titles from Alejandra
Ryan Kendall, Assistant Editor
Email: ryan.kendall@duke.edu
Ryan Kendall joined the press after receiving her PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University. Ryan acquires books in Feminist Philosophy.
New and Noteworthy Books from Ryan
Benjamin Kossak, Assistant Editor
Email: benjamin.kossak@duke.edu
Benjamin Kossak acquires books in environmental history. He is especially interested in the use of environmental and more-than-human thinking to pose new historical questions, as well as work that intersects with Duke’s other core strengths, such as Black studies, Indigenous studies, and feminist theory.
Kate Mullen, Assistant Editor
email: catherine.mullen@duke.edu
Kate Mullen joined the press in 2022, after receiving her PhD in Ethnomusicology and a Master's in Library Science from Indiana University. Kate acquires books in information studies, including critical data studies, information praxis, and digital and internet studies. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary work on how information is created, used, circulated, and preserved, and the social impacts of information practices.